ok, maybe i won't find any devs to back akonadi out of kde-pim after all

[Ian Douglas]

On Sunday, 18 March 2018 2:06:08 PM SAST René J.V. Bertin wrote:

> You've said that several times, but I don't think you said why - what does
> KMail offer that you don't find in other MUAs?
> 
> A positive note wouldn't hurt 

FWIW my previous mailer was PMMail on OS/2. Which I really loved, despite it's 
shortcomings. :-)

Kmail was the closest I could find on Linux, and over the years I've looked at 
Thunderbird, Evolution, Sylpheed/claws, etc, and they all suck by comparison.

A big deal breaker for me is maildir support... having previously been burned 
with an mbox (think it was a newsgroup reader on Win 3.1 many years ago), and 
seeing windows users have major issues with their "everything in one file" 
mail system. From a design point of view that's just screaming for something 
to go wrong. At least with maildir, if you get a bad sector, you lose one 
file, not the whole mailbox...

Also I prefer to read mail plaintext, with the option to view HTML for those 
people (corporates!) that insist on sending everything in HTML sans 
plaintext...

View source is also very handy... especially compared to the hoops that 
Outlook users have to jump through.

Cheers, Ian


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