Goodbye for now, kmail

[Dave Stevens]

On Mon, 1 May 2017 18:39:56 +0200
Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk> wrote:

> I can't go back to a working version without a lot of problems, 
> unfortunately. I just tried Trojita, but it does not appear to work
> very well. Thunderbird unfortunately appears to not support plain
> text for composing messages, but I tried to force it to always send
> in plain text. It also seems to produce a local copy of my mail since
> forever, not very IMAP-like.
> 
> Anyone knows about a functional mail client? Maybe Claws?
> 
> Kindly,
> Anders

I use Claws, Richard Stallman uses Claws, you can too! I'm a recovering
Kmail user and find Claws does what I want and shuts up about it, just
email.

d

> 
> 
> On 01-05-2017 18:24, Werner Joss wrote:
> > 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
> >  
> 



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