[kdepim-users] Saying a saddened goodbye to KMail, thank you KMail2

[John Wilson]

Once upon a time there was a nifty little email client called KMail.  It 
quickly collected and sorted the mail.  It filtered well, it behaved well with 
spam and virus scanners and allowed me to "aggrigate" mail my way.  (Not 
splitting threads between dates and goodness knows what other odd, arbitrary 
notions someone had.  And soon, Kontact got wrapped around it and all seemed 
good as they all played well together and respected each other's "space" as 
well as mine.  (The long forgotten user.)

Since  upgrading to KMail2 I've had lost mail, frozen apps, Nepomuk hogging as 
much CPU time as it could get, followed by Virtuoso and throwing up strange 
dialogs callled Conflict Resolution.   Which left for an "extended" period of 
time, say 5 minutes, crashes KMail with no log entry to be found. 

WTF is Conflict Resolution and why doesn't it resolve anything??

All good things must pass and it's time KMail/Kontact did.  Between a 
migration script that did very little anything useful, thanking the computer 
gods for backups so I could recover some stuff and docmentation that only a 
code slinger could love and a host of excuses and no real resolution or 
explaination, it's time to move on.

Between Akonodai and Nepomuk and "Conflict Resolution" I've come to the 
conclusion that it's either lose all my emails or spend hours I don't have 
manually putting things together again or move on.

It's been a great and rewarding relationship I and KMail have had over the 
years.  Imagine that, an email app that did email and nothing else!  No 
longer.

Burial time for KMail is set for Jan XX at 2:63pm with a nap to follow.  Then 
power up Claws.  At tleast that still does email.  Not semantic desktops, not 
some CPU hogging indexing but just email.

I'll probably give it a go again in a while when the list slows down on the 
more than obvious flaws in the current Kmail.  Or when it actually "aggrigates" 
again or sorts mail again without fancy dividers that mess up searches and 
other such things.  Just email.  There's no need for anything else guys, Just 
do email.  Like you used to.

ttfn

John
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