Goodbye for now, kmail

[Volker Wysk]

Am Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2017, 00:24:24 CEST schrieb Wilhelm Boltz:
> Hi Anders,
> 
> Am Montag, 1. Mai 2017, 17:48:51 CEST schrieb Anders Lund:
> > Today I finally elected to install thunderbird, and remove my mail
> > accounts from akonadi. In the current state, kmail is simply not usable
> > with my IMAP account, it sends unreasonable amounts of time updating,
> > and chokes in the process. I had to restart it all the time, and most
> > often, that would not even work, I can't get to read my mail using kmail
> > any longer. [...]
> > I will continue to use other parts of the kdepim suite for now, mainly
> > korganizer, in my experience bothe calendars and contacts works fine
> > with akonadi.
> 
> a pretty long while ago I installed my own imap server on my desktop
> (dovecot + fetchmail) and do all filtering on the server using sieve. Doing
> it that way makes it very easy to switch from one mua to another one
> without moving one mail. 

I've done the same. It works well for me. Dovecot is high-quality software.

> In Kmail you can't move messages from INBOX to
> other folders (in case it is not done by sieve filter), so sometimes claws
> (or evolution) is in use to move them to other folders. Apart from that
> kmail works well for me.

I'm still using KMail, but it doesn't work well. For instance, the full-text 
search doesn't work. And you also can't remove folders in the IMAP server. I'm 
using Dovecot's doveadm instead.

Bye