Re: kmail has messed up the email accounts

On Mon, 2020-06-01 at 13:22 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Thomas Tanghus - 01.06.20, 12:52:00 CEST:
> > On Monday, 1 June 2020 12.41 test wrote:
> > > On 6/1/20 11:59 AM, Ian Douglas wrote:
> > > > On Monday, 01 June 2020 11:45:50 SAST test wrote:
> > > > It's got nothing to do with other meanings of the word "identity".
> > > 
> > > Well, why isn't it called 'email account'?
> > 
> > Because you can have several identities - name, signature, encryption,
> > templates etc - for each email account. I use it.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> A mail account in KMail/Akonadi is realized by several resources and 
> agents.

Do you mean "implemented"?

> - A POP3 or IMAP resource
> - With POP3 also a maildir resource to store mails in
> - With IMAP you usually also have a maildir resource running and you 
> could local folders to archive mails from IMAP resource to it.

I definitely do not want these local folders; they are just annoying, and I
wish I could delete them.  I'm using IMAP accounts, and that involves that
I do not want to store the messages locally.  If I wanted to store them
locally, I wouldn't use IMAP.

> - A maildispatcher agent for sending out mails, usually with SMTP

Which is far worse than annoying because it means I have sometimes unsent
messages piled up in local folders without knowing about it.  This is a
really bad idea.  It's another reason that I don't want local folders.

> An identity now saws which signature, mail address and so on to use.

It is usually a bad idea to configure an MTA as an open relay.

> If you setup up a new account with the wizard it builds everything 
> together for you.

No, the wizard only messes things up.  That's what they always do.

> What one can argue is missing later is an account centric overview or 
> things… i.e. a settings view where you can see: What resources and 
> agents are involved with account so and so?
> 
> I think there has been ideas or even plans to rework some of the account 
> handling, but I am not aware of the current state of that.

Well, it's totally confusing and, like I said, it's the reason because it
gets all messed up.  I just want to use some email accounts.