Goodbye for now, kmail

[Werner Joss]

Am Montag, 1. Mai 2017, 17:48:51 schrieb Anders Lund:
> Anyone else with similar experiences, or is it simply the iMAP server 
> used by my webhotel that does not work with akonadi?

hm, well, here is my experience, after having used kmail from the first 
incarnation in kde 2.0:
-	the most reliable version for me was that from EOL kde 3.5, which is 
btw. still available in the trinity project: https://www.trinitydesktop.org/
-	then came a long cumbersome transition to akonadi based pim in the kde 
4.x series, which drove me crazy for years, and then finally worked more or 
less reliable (from kde 4.13.x or so), and this is what I still use nowadays,
kde 4.14.2 on debian jessie

anyways, this still has some major flaws, e.g. distribution lists not working 
now and then (sometimes, they do, though) or issues with moving around mails 
between different IMAP servers.
In one of these cases, I went back again to trinity, which 'just works'

distribution lists was an ever lasting PITA in akonadi based kmail, broken 
over and over again, then fixed countless times in the 4.x series,
and now, as one can read in mailing lists and the bug tracker
(see e.g. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334583) continued in the
kde 5.x series...

on the other side, kmail has so many nice features (e.g. just mark a part of a 
message you want to reply to and then hit 'r' ...) I still prefer it to 
thunderbird, claws mail etc. (which all will not work well with other kde 
apps).

for now, I will stick with the 4.14.2 version and just check from time to time
the kde 5.x version in a parallel kubuntu installation,
and once it gets mature, evtl. switch.
probably that will be the moment when it gets abandoned by the kde devs,
throwing all away and focusing on the 6.x series, as always :)

just my 0.02 €

Werner