[Kde-pim] Cleaning up obsolete features

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Freitag, 31. Juli 2015, 15:44:40 schrieb Allen Winter:
> On Friday, July 31, 2015 07:26:24 PM Volker Krause wrote:
[…]
> > over the past 19 years KMail has accumulated a few features that have been
> > needed and useful at some point, but have become obsolete for various
> > reasons. They clutter the UI and increase the amount of code that has to
> > be maintained. At the PIM meeting at Akademy we therefore discussed to be
> > slightly more aggressive than so far in cleaning this up.
> > 
> > Examples of things that are already gone:
> > - tip of the day (got out of fashion after the 90s)
> > - local sendmail support (not shipped/installed by modern distros)
> > - system speaker beep notifications (dysfunctional with semi-recent
> > hardware)
> > 
> > Here's a few more ideas:
> > - application-local network proxy settings, seems of questionable value
> > with most network I/O actually happening elsewhere. System proxy settings
> > should cover this.
> > - there's 5 checkboxes to enable different Outlook/Exchange compatibility
> > aspects of iTip messages. If that's needed at all nowadays, there should
> > be
> > just one.
> > - configurable host name for SMTP, even changeable per identity??
> > - external composer editor support
> > - customizable Message-Id prefix
> > - show user agent in fancy header option, if you really care about that,
> > look at the message source. Same for the "all headers" header style.
> > 
> > More ideas? Objections? :)
> 
> spam filtering and virus filtering
> should be discussed as candidates for removal

I am still not using it again, due to

[Akonadi] [Bug 319226] New: produces 1-byte-sized files on failed move 
attempts while filtering

I never dared to try it again. But I really like to have it back. I have 
policyd-weight on the server, but still use POP3 mailboxes and there are some 
spam mails getting through that CRM114 back then just catches fine, learning 
my preferences quickly.

From what I gathered in kdepim-users mailinglist and I think also debian-kde 
is that there are quite some users using KMail with POP3.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin
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