On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:53:21 +0000, Chris wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Since having done an update (not sure which and when) kmail starts in
> offline mode. I try to get it to go online, but File->Work Online does
> nothing.
>
On Sept 30, I posted about a similar problem to the kde-pim mail group. I
also had the onlin/offline problem, and also

"since I've upgraded to KMail 1.9.6, on Sept 25, KMail has not been able
to check/download mail. It still sends mail, and is able to "check what
the server supports" successfully, but when I click "Check Mail In" ...
the status bar immediately updates "[ new messages". But Kmail isn't checking."

If this sound familiar, the problem turned out to be related to a problem
that Smart turned up....
"Unsatisfied dependency: kdelibs3-3.5.7-79.2@i586 conflicts with
kdepim3-networkstatus-3.5.5-36@i586"

Kdepim3-networkstatus is obsolete in the latest build. Smart wanted to
delete kdepim3-networkstatus, and I was not letting it do so. When I
allowed the deletion, the problem went away.