[Kde-pim] Cleaning up obsolete features

[Allen Winter]

On Friday, July 31, 2015 07:26:24 PM Volker Krause wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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

are we limited to talking about KMail only?

can we discuss removing KNode (and KTimetracker and KJots,... )?



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