Re: KMail2 at kdepim 4.9.0

On Saturday, August 25, 2012 11:43:33 AM Russ Fineman wrote:
> Robin Atwood wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 August 2012, Andras Mantia wrote:
> >> Robin Atwood wrote:
> >>> Does the community consider KMail2 usable yet? I have gotten a bit tired
> >>> of installing the latest kdepim and after a day rapidly restoring
> >>> 4.4.11.1. Last time the main problem for me was that the filters were
> >>> not
> >>> automatically applied, I had to constantly do C-A/C-J manually. Also,
> >>> the
> >>> mail was never delivered to the inbox folder but the enveloping one,
> >>> call
> >>> Folder or something.
> >>> 
> >>> So what's the feeling out there?
> >> 
> >> The only serious (ie. that could cause data loss) bug is with online imap
> >> accounts and local spam filtering. That is still not fixed, unfortunately
> >> the fix I tried didn't work. In that case you have two choices:
> >> - use a disconnected imap account (that just means mail bodies are
> >> completely downloaded)
> >> - do not use client-side spam filtering, but use sieve scripts server
> >> side
> >> 
> >> Filtering on disconnected IMAP and POP3 account apparently works fine,
> >> with
> >> an ocassional *temporary* message duplicating in the destination folder
> >> (temporary, as a refresh on the folder usually removes the duplicate, it
> >> is
> >> just a duplicate in the "index", not on the storage/disk) and filtering
> >> not
> >> working for some messages that were downloaded after a resume from
> >> hibernation. The filtering starts to work after the first manual
> >> sync/download.
> >> 
> >> I will look at both bugs at one point, latest at the KDEPIM sprint in
> >> October.
> > 
> > Andras -
> > Thanks for the response. Other responses on this thread indicated that
> > there were still problems with filtering. FYI my mail boxes are maildir
> > format. I changed to that from mbox, which was an utter disaster.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > -Robin
> 
> I just found another issue today with Kmail2 ( version 4.8.4 but I'll
> wait another week and see if the new release fixes it. It has to do with
> creating a group to use as a distribution list.
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Actually this problem does not appear to be Kmail2 but Contact 4.8.4. 
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