Goodbye for now, kmail

[ianseeks]

On Tuesday, 9 May 2017 09:11:59 BST Gianluca Montecchi wrote:
> On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 12:38:37PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Anders Lund - 06.05.17, 12:19:
> > > P?? Sat, 06 May 2017 12:07:22 +0200
> > > 
> > > Daniel Vr??til <dvratil at kde.org> skrev:
> > > > You have Trojita and Sink, both support IMAP and don't use Akonadi.
> > > > There's no way to add IMAP to KMail without using Akonadi.
> > > 
> > > No? I can't imagine this is due to technical reasons, so it must be
> > > religious. So a fork may be the way to go?
> > 
> > Anders, it *is* due to technical reasons.
> > 
> > Current KMail only speaks to Akonadi. I go as far as saying: Without major
> > rework it is locked to it. So if you want to add IMAP without Akonadi to
> > KMail you also need to do the integration with KMail, which I believe
> > would be quite invasive change.
> > 
> > Either you would completely move back to pre-akonadi times of KMail which
> > is a no-go for current KMail developers or you??d have to maintain *two*
> > completely different IMAP access methods within KMail, including an
> > Akonadi and a non- Akonadi access method. I don??t see how this would be
> > maintainable by the current team.
> 
> So we are in a situation where KMail speak only to akonadi, which in
> turn does not work well at the only thing he need to offer to kmail,
> manage the messages.
> 
> At this point, a pre-akonadi kmail or something not tied to akonadi
> are not a really appalling ideas, if you ask me.
> 
> Technical reasons aside, the big problem here is that the KDEPIM
> developers have not learned anything from the KDE4 initial release
> fiasco, so they repeated it: release basically an alpha version as
> "ready for the end users", which in my experience is way far from the
> thruth.

The so called "KDE4 fiasco" was down to the distro's releasing it too soon, not 
the KDE team. The KDE said the release was for devs to port their software so 
blame the distros.

> And as aggravating they made it a one way road, given that as today
> kmail has not a way to export all the mails in a simple way (to move
> from kmail to claws I needed to pass throug mutt to be able to import
> the mailboxes).
> 
> > And again the most important question:
> > 
> > Who would do the fork? You? If not, whomelse? I don??t see *anyone*
> > volunteering. Do you?
> 
> Obviously nobody try a fork. For once, kmail is so heavily tied to
> akonadi that a full rewrite is probabily simpler, and people
> just use something else, albeit not integrated with KDE, that just work.
> 
> 
> bye
> Gianluca


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