Goodbye for now, kmail

[Anders Lund]

På Mon, 1 May 2017 09:56:57 -0700
Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> skrev:
> 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.

I actually installed claws, and writes this message using claws. It is
way preferrable over thunderbird, supporting message threads and plain
text nicely. And yes, it actually shows a message when I ask it to,
instead of choking in a spinner... :D

Downsides must be missing integration with the rest of my KDE system,
but I can live with that, given the alternatives!

Kindly,
Anders

> d
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> > 
> > 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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