Re: Jumping ship

>> I don't know what Akonadi does exactly, but I don't have your automatic
>> assumption that just because kmail uses akonadi, it suddenly stores its
>> emails in akonadi, mysql, some other database, or its own proprietary
>> format. Afterall kmail has used akonadi in previous versions too. And
>> like I said it must be possible to turn all that extra stuff off for
>> those who just want to use email.
>>
> If OP wants to keep his email client-proof, he should run a mail
> server with imap to the client. Then if the client does some bizarre
> thing with it's local store, the original and definitive store on the
> server remains intact (but of course should be backed up in case the
> client accidentally does something like delete everything.

I'll second this. He can even run the IMAP server locally on his desktop 
computer if he wants to, using fetchmail to pull mail from his ISP and 
populate his local IMAP server.

  There are plenty of IMAP servers that use maildir formats: cyrus has a 
slightly custom one with an occasional headache involving mailbox list 
reconstruction/reindexing; courier is fairly straightforward; I've not 
used dovecot but lots of people in this list have.   You then get your 
choice of mail client, and get to pick it based on usability features 
rather than worrying about what it does in the background.

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