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

[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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