[kdepim-users] horrible experience creating a new IMAP account

[Anders Lund]

It is very possible that the course of theese errors are on the server side, I 
can not send a mail to the address in question.

But kmail handles it really bad. First of all it turns into a dialog hell. 
Several alike dialogs at the same time should be forbidden by law! Wait!

And the imap account creation is terrible! Please do not prefill username and 
password for new accounts! And the communication with kwallet! AUCH!

Torsdag den 11. april 2013 12:30:51 skrev Anders Lund:
> I have removed and recreated the account several times. The second dialog
> asking for wallet access does not come up every time, but the rest of the
> horror is stable.
> 
> I got to a state where the account was created, and asked for it to fetch
> mail, which gets me a dialog claiming a server access error, and a "try
> again" button. Pressing that, I am asked for a password - but hey, I did
> provide that. Why do you ask again??? Well, after retyping the password and
> OKing that dialog, the account is now listed as "ready" in the account
> list.
> 
> But WHERE IS MY MAIL???? Shouldn't there be a inbox folder in my folder
> list?
> 
> In any case, this is a horrible dialog hell!
> 
> AndersTorsdag den 11. april 2013 12:10:29 skrev  Lund:
> > Forgot some idiotic issues:
> > 
> > When the kmail/akonadi account settings dialog is OKed, the account lists
> > in kmail like this: "no server configured yet".
> > 
> > No folder is added to the kmail folder list, which is what I expect.
> > 
> > I'm closing in on kmail not being usable for my re	quirements, once again,
> > and I find it really, really unacceptable.
> > 
> > AndersTorsdag den 11. april 2013 12:06:41 skrev  Lund:
> > > I just got a new IMAP account, and tried to configure kmail to use it.
> > > 
> > > I opened kmail settings, went to accounts and clicked new, then selected
> > > IMAP server.
> > > 
> > > A dialog came up, asking for access to my wallet for an accunt named
> > > "IMAP
> > > account 5" (or thereabout).
> > > 
> > > I confirm, and a dialog for configuring that account came up, prefilled
> > > with my username and password from another account. STUPID!!
> > > 
> > > I correct the account name to something useful, replaces the username
> > > and
> > > password and clicks OK.
> > > 
> > > A dialog comes up asking for access to the wallet for the renamed
> > > account.
> > > DOOOOOOOOOH, DUDE! But I grant it.
> > > 
> > > Now starts a fight with various error messages, they appear in stacks.
> > > Some
> > > of them claims that "the user does not allow access to the wallet".
> > > Which
> > > is not so, of course.
> > > 
> > > At this point I am not sure if the information I gor for the account is
> > > wrong, or if it is just kmail that is so bad in this iteration that it
> > > does
> > > not support creating a new IMAP account at all.
> > > 
> > > I do know one thing, though:
> > > 
> > > How sadly horrible!
-- 
Anders
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