My experience with kmail (was:Goodbye for now, kmail)

[Vojtěch Zeisek]

Dne pátek 12. května 2017 16:01:27 CEST, orestes napsal(a):
> Hello,
> 
> As Anders reported, I experienced increased problems as a kmail user
> that finally lead me to switch to Thunderbird some months ago.
> 
> I considered the possibility to report my problems somewhere, but in
> this case I couldn't be much precise with the problem description and
> probable causes, so I feared that my complaints could be interpreted as
> a rant and start one of those destructive flame wars. I value very much
> the developer's efforts to produce the best software they can for free
> (and free), and I don't want to discourage them in any way.
> 
> But when I saw that the discussion in this thread has been carried on in
> a respectful way (thanks all), I can now share my experience.

This seems to be very constructive discussion. And I must say, despite some 
issues with Akonadi/KMail, I don't know better groupware suite than KDE PIM.

> I work at the university and I use the email facilities provided by my
> department. I used to access mail using kmail via the IMAP protocol in
> all my machines, both at work and at home, except when accessing email
> from my smartphone and/or tablet, which use specific clients. My
> department also offers a webmail access (Horde, I think).
> 
> The situation was as follows: I had few problems when accessing emails
> from my work office, but I have the server 2 stories below and a gigabit
> connection. On the contrary, I experienced all kind of annoyances when
> accessing my email at home, via an ADSL connection. Most of the problems
> are described by other users in the mails above, so I won't repeat them.
> But une of the most annoying was this one: I'm subscribed to a service
> that send me a mail a day containing rich content (most HTML). Usually I
> move (manually, because I read the messages first) this messages into a
> specific folder. Well, when I did this at home, messages got apparently
> moved (didn't appear in Inbox), but after that Kmail used to lock
> frequently. When accessing my email via webmail *I could saw the moved
> messages still in Inbox, but GRAYED*. Fortunately, I could delete the
> offending messages in webmail and doing so restored (more or less)
> normality.

I had similar issue and it was related to settings of the account. I don't 
remember exactly, but in webmail I could select what to do if IMAP client 
moves/deletes an e-mail. Also KMail and Thunderbird have similar settings. And 
some combination of settings on client/server did not work well. Sorry, I'm 
unable to give any more useful details...

> Apart from that, kmail user experience at home had never been as fast
> and pleasant as from work office. I came to the conclusion that this
> fact was due to a bad IMAP protocol/timing implementation somewhere
> (akonadi?).
> 
> Well, I don't want to add more noise to an already long mail. Hope my
> experience will help someone find a fix for that. I'll check regularly
> the kmail status and eventually return to it when it becomes usable
> again.

I use and like KMail. I also use another IMAP clients: Thunderbird, Android K9 
and Sailfish E-mail. I noticed KMail to perform badly on weak network 
comparing to Thunderbird. KMail has problems to download mails, while 
Thunderbird does it with no apparent issues. It's bit annoying, but not big 
issue. I'd blame more backend's IMAP implementation than KMail itself.
V.

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Vojtěch Zeisek

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