Re: Goodbye for now, kmail

Daniel Vrátil <[email protected]> Sat, 06 May 2017 12:07:22 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
Organization	KDE
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On Saturday, May 6, 2017 11:49:47 AM CEST René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Saturday May 06 2017 11:20:39 Anders Lund wrote:
> >Both claws mail and thunderbird displays a mail when asked to. They do
> >not have the BSOD "feature" of kmail. Probably, no other email client
> 
> Bsod? If only it were still blue and not something that also makes your eyes
> bleed ... ;)
> On Saturday May 06 2017 11:31:20 Anders Lund wrote:
> >Akonadi does not work for (IMAP) mail. It may be that it can be tweaked
> >to somewhat work in specific cases, if the peers like mail servers are
> >carefully chosen, but it is not a functional solution in general.
> >
> >The only sane thing to do, is to deakonadify kmail.
> 
> I wonder, how open is KDEPIM to adding an optional IMAP agent that doesn't
> rely on Akonadi? That could provide a compromise: continue to support and
> develop the Akonadi infrastructure but users will have a choice for IMAP
> between something (probably simpler) that just works and a default that's
> somewhat top-heavy O:^)

You have Trojita and Sink, both support IMAP and don't use Akonadi. There's no 
way to add IMAP to KMail without using Akonadi.

> 
> R.


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