Kontact Mail vs KMail1

Am Friday, 2. December 2011 11:37:22 schrieb Bernhard Reiter:
> Some apps are not ready to fully run on KDE 4 Plattform and to replace the
> old ones in quality. So we need the old platform 3 to be there long enough.
> Public examples in Germany are Limux, the IT of the city of Munich and the
> Federal Agency of IT security.

A recent example showing the conflict is Kontact Mail vs KMail1.
Maybe you can me communicating here as well.

The progress of the new Kontact (I like to call it Enterprise 5) is very good, 
still people need rock solid groupware clients. Right now and for the next 
weeks or months the new Kontact in its Desktop and Touch variants will not be 
able to provide this rock solid state. It is at least missing speed 
optimisations.

So for someone who needs a robust email client now, it can only be the old 
KMail1 as in Kontact E35 based on KDE Platform 3. This is still maintained
and even extended because some customers of Kolab Systems, Intevation and KDAB
run it and even fund some of the maintenance work and additional feature they
need urgently.

Take a look at the following email discussions which got triggered by a 
negative review of Kontact Mail on kde-pim@:

http://lists.kde.org/?t=132204573200001&r=1&w=2 (FYI. KMail fails utterly in 
mail clients comparison)
http://lists.kde.org/?t=132277578900001&r=1&w=2 (State of Kontact Mail)

My suggestion is to more cleary target two separated group
for the communication:
  a) potential contributors, they are friendly and want to advance Kontact.
     Of course they include developers and users.
  b) potential customers, which are techs, users or management that is looking
     into evaluating or running a production reading system. They can cope 
     with mide-term plans, but they need to know about them.

Best Regards,
Bernhard

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