"Unable to Complete LIST Operation Error" Still Occurs

[Derek Broughton]

Steve Lamb wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2008 3:32 pm, Robert Tilley wrote:
>> I have been unable to get my mail since April 24 because KMail will
>> report "Unable to complete LIST operation.".
> 
>> I'm using KMail 1.9.6 and KDE 3.5.8.  Google shows this error has existed
>> for about one year.  What's happening with the effort to correct this
>> situation?
> 
>     Well, that depends.  The only Google hit I have on that string is an
> incomplete IRC log which does not say anything about KMail having a bug
> in it.  Unable to complete a LIST operation (presuming a POP3
> connection) could be that your remote mail store is so large KMail times
> out before the server can produce an index in response to the LIST
> command.  In that case, it isn't a bug, it's a problem with your remote
> mail store.
> 
I'd disagree - if it's possible for the remote store to be that large, it
needs to be possible to set the KMail timeout high enough to tolerate it. 
Unless there's some specific standard set out in the POP3 RFC that says a
list has to be delivered in "X" seconds (seems unlikely to me) then it's an
error at KMail's end.
-- 
derek