Re: Jumping ship

On 30/11/11 20:44, cr wrote:
> For the past few years I've been using Kmail under Gnome.   I just installed
> the 'latest' versions with Debian Squeeze.   On starting kmail from the
> command line (ssh'd in a terminal window from my laptop, that's why) I noticed
> a lot of messages about akonadi.   Googling showed it's some sort of system-
> wide database that Kmail2 uses.   A frantic and furious search showed that my
> Maildir files are all still there.    So if Kmail 1.13 still uses Maildir why's
> it loading Akonadi?
>
> Be that as it may, at some point Debian Stable will (presumably) include
> Kmail2 at which point all my mailfiles will get converted to some cryptic
> format that nothing else can read.   So I should switch to something else
> first.
>
> Question is, what?    Which current mailreaders use Maildir?
> I tried Balsa but it felt a bit clunky and I couldn't persuade it to send
> messages so I reverted to Kmail for now.
> Evolution I think uses Mbox.    Apparently so does Thunderbird.   I'm not so
> keen on ginormous files even if they are in ASCII.     All it takes is one
> corrupt read or write or delete and there goes all your messages.
>
> Claws-mail apparently uses a text-based file-based relative of Maildir called
> MH.    I might have to try that.   (From Wikipedia on MH:  "MH follows the
> Unix philosophy of write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write
> programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that
> is a universal interface (Doug McIlroy)."   My thoughts exactly.)
>
> Any others?    I don't need or want a calendar, or an appointments book, or an
> organiser, I just want a mailreader/writer.    Kmail 1.13 is fine.   (Can you
> hear me, KDE?   Thought not).
>
Did you see this?

http://blogs.kde.org/node/4503

Cheers,

Cliff





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