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Now that we have Plasma there could be a nice change for KMail:

I use KMail connecting to four different POP3 accounts. In case the network is not up I have to close by clicking four message boxes with connection failure messages to get into the application. Message boxes announcing temporary problems of that kind suck.

Suggestions:
1. It would be nice to have connection problems in KMail as "message bubbles" in systray, not blocking the application itself.
2. It would be good to announce a problem of the same kind only in one bubble, listing for instance all my four POP3 connection problems once.
3. KMail should not announce connection problems twice or more times each time trying to connect in background, this fact could shown statically in the applications taskbar, for example.
4. The "bubbles" should pop up only if a repeating problem occurs the first time, after that only in case of explicit actions, for instance if the user presses "Check Mail"

This has been a very old request on the KDE bugzilla.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39097

Maybe it isn't as easy to implement as it looks.

I see :lightbulb: Maybe newer Plasma versions offer a better API for integrating such dialogs, I'm not familar about how KMail handles connections with internally or over its KIO slaves.

BTW, there is another good idea in the discussion you mentioned to let KMail check the network state over DBUS and, if there is no connection to wait and not to tell anything at all about missing POP3, IMAP, SMTP or whatever else connections, or to show a message bubble that KMail is waiting for a network connection and not to list the single connections at all. If KMail would take notice about a missing connection it even would no have to try to connect.

riteshsarraf wrote:This has been a very old request on the KDE bugzilla.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39097

Maybe it isn't as easy to implement as it looks.

Is there any further development on this?

This would be very useful feature.