Comment 47 for bug 86680

I've also just discovered this bug. Clean install of Hardy 8.04 on a brand new Compaq notebook (wiping Wista off).

It was a new user's first introduction to open source. Email for his small business for weeks had been at cafe's & friends places. He lives miles out in the country, so dial up is all he can get. He's real keen to be up and running, but is not a power user. I chose KMail because Thunderbird is a 12Mb download, and over dialup that's all night or more. I thought kmail would be all nicely integrated, so I'd get less problems. Not!!!

So I spend 1/2 an hour on dialup stooging around till I find this and related threads. I read the above and know for sure it's the same issue. I can also see there's been little concrete progress on solving it. Quite likely because no one who can solve this one uses PPP all the time, and not many who use PPP have the skills to solve it.

To wrap up, it is still current, it does have a lot of real world consequences. I'd like to help but not sure how, since it obviously involves KDE internals and a bit of wizardry. So for now all I can do is add this user's story.