[kdepim-users] how to use KMail as portable client?

[Andras Mantia]

Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Tuesday 01 Nov 2011 11:25:02 Aekold Helbrass wrote:
>> Hi All!
>> 
>> I like kmail way more than gmail UI, and I am using external HDD for
>> all my personal stuff, across 3 PCs with different versions of KDE and
>> KDE-PIM. So I have 3 main questions:
>> 
>> 1. If I am using imap configuration - will it work as portable or it
>> will still have some local storage and will act similarly to "offline
>> imap"?
> ]
> By default your client will download headers onto your local machine,
> though you can choose to have offline imap, called dimap by kmail.

Disconnected mode in KMail2.

>> 3. is it possible to build kmail and its dependencies and use it
>> instead of system version, which is quite old in SUSE 11.4?
>> 
> It may well be, but I wouldn't advise trying it, as it is likely that it
> needs
> different dependencies than those supplied by SUSE.  Many of us are trying
> the newest KMail and having serious problems, whereas the KMail ! that is
> supplied in most distros is rock solid even if not entirely up to date in
> some respects.


If you anyway want to upgrade, OpenSUSE has repositories holding the latest 
KDE version for 11.4.

Andras
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