kmail has messed up the email accounts

[Paul Vixie]

On Monday, 8 June 2020 21:12:50 UTC test wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-06-08 at 16:05 +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > ...
> 
> And evolution doesn't work, either?

it's no better for my purposes than thunderbird. i would go back to MH first.

i have been doing this for a while. for examples, see:

https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3APaul+Vixie

and

> 17.3.3. Wave 3: The Chaos Years
> ... There were also attempts to build open source
> versions, notably IDA sendmail and KJS.
> 
> IDA sendmail came from Linköping University. ...
> 
> King James Sendmail (KJS, produced by Paul Vixie) was an attempt to unify
> all the various versions of sendmail that had sprung up. Unfortunately, it
> never really got enough traction to have the desired effect. ...

(https://aosabook.org/en/sendmail.html)

it's possible that without having lived through the pre-Internet email era 
that you won't be able to understand how fantastically magical KMail is. if i 
have to learn Gentoo in order to run KMail without tolerating "systemd", i 
will do so. if i have to learn how to build KDE PIM from source, i will do so. 
even with akonadi and the horrid nonperformance and instability that 
introduced, there's never been anything like KMail.

> > ...
> 
> I don't have, nor want, a PIM identity.  I just want to use some email
> accounts, and I need a MUA that works, preferably one I like, and it
> doesn't and shouldn't have anything to do with any identity ...

i suggest that whenever you see the word "identity" in any KMail document or 
forum, you substitute the term "email address", which is equally accurate but 
may lack the baggage that's triggering you.

i, like you, want to use some email accounts. for work, i have one personal 
address and at least one role address, but only one incoming server and only 
one outgoing server and only one set of folders. for home, it's the same. one 
set of servers, one set of folders, but sometimes i send as vixie at tisf.net and 
sometimes i send as paul at redbarn.org, and if i get it wrong, some distant 
listserv will reject my e-mail because "i" am "not" a member of the list.

if you only use one email address per email account, then you will probably 
find the "identity" construct in KMail, whereby you could potentially have 
more than one, an added layer of irritation. no apology will be offered you, 
because for those of us who have to send as, and use pgp keys for, more than 
one address per "account", the ability to create multiple "identities" is a 
gift from the gods, and we can't even consider an MUA lacking that feature.

-- 
Paul