Re: hi

On Friday, 2011-05-06, Cristobal G wrote:
> HI,
> 
> I'm new to the list, and a new user of KDE in the Mepis environment (KDE
> 4.5.1)
> 
> I was initially excited about using KMail for its integration with the
> desktop, but I was unable to get it to talk to my Gmail account, despite
> plugging in all of the same settings that work perfectly in Thunderbird.

Hmm, this should work.
Are you using POP3 or IMAP?

> Now I've learned about Kontact and the integration of all of these tools
> with Akonadi.   it looks pretty exciting, but is it working?   Would I have
> to go to a more recent KDE or can I run Kontact in 4.5.1?

Kontact as released does not use Akonadi for mail access yet. But the released 
version should work on any KDE workspace release as old or younger than 
itself.

> Are all of the tools in the kontact suite working with Akonadi now?

Addressbook, the others not yet.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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