[kdepim-users] kde-pim hopeless?

[O. Sinclair]

On 05/05/2013 16:04, Russ Kepler wrote:
> Should I just give up and move on?  From my perspective the kontact/kmail
> system has gone from a fairly robust (if occasionally slow) system that dealt
> well with mail to a bug-ridden system that doesn't filter received mail
> properly, search received mail properly after it's filtered and sucks down
> resources like nothing I've ever seen (virtuoso-t usually is at 2GB of ram
> after a couple of days and is usually consuming one core continuously).
>
> For a while it looked like things were getting better then suddenly it all
> regressed to worse than the starting state.  I don't know if the development
> team does any unit testing but I'm fairly sure that there's no regression
> testing, or if there is the testing is either too minor, test cases too
> trivial or the results of testing ignored.
>
> It's PITA to move away but unless someone can give me any hope that things are
> going to get better I'm feeling that's the only choice.  I'd rather have a
> system that ran slowly than one I can't trust at all.

Let me then be the one who has few problems and those I can live with. 
My filters work, the hicups is that sometimes the mail gets moved but 
the folders are not updated. As in if a mail gets moved to /inbox/mylove 
then I see no "new mail" in /inbox/mylove until I go to that folder.

The crm114 issue mentioned by Martin I consider a version issue, that is 
CRM114 not KDEPIM. I love CRM114 but it is poorly maintained and there 
have been times when the 64-bit version did not work. In 13.04 Kubuntu 
it seems to not work, in 12.10 it works just fine.

I have issues with HTML editor and I will stay on 4.10.0 until I hear 
that the address autocompletion is again working - it again went belly 
up in 4.10.2, worked fine until then and is working in yet to be 
released 4.10.3.

So no, not hopeless but recovering. And if you follow the devs mailing 
list you will see they are alive and kicking. And users like Martin do 
their best to find and analyze bugs.

Best,
Sinclair
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