kmail serious problems

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Montag, 6. Februar 2023 08:49:41 CET Kevin Ottens wrote:
> On Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:42:21 CET Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> I'm telling all this because it looks like something is *really* rotten
> somewhere in our POP3/Maildir story. Asking people to just switch to IMAP is
> unrealistic though, there are valid uses for POP3.

The other side of the coin is that expecting developers (which developers?) 
who are using IMAP exclusively to put an extra amount of their unpaid spare 
time into keeping POP3 support in good condition is also unrealistic. I think 
the POP3 support never really recovered from the switch to Akonadi as backend 
and that's because all involved developers have used IMAP almost exclusively 
since ages. Additionally, to this KMail has effectively 0 developers and 1/10 
maintainers. Laurent is doing an inhuman job but he maintains large parts of 
PIM and, currently, does KF6 porting in uncountable other KDE projects.

If you want to stay with KMail, then I recommend that you set up a local 
dovecot to bridge POP3 to IMAP. I have done this for a couple of unimportant 
POP3 accounts many years ago and it's been working flawlessly for years now.

Regards,
Ingo
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