Re: Jumping ship

On Thursday 01 December 2011 09:12:18 Cliff wrote:
> 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

Hi Cliff

As will be obvious from a post I just made, I just stumbled on it myself.    

Interesting, thanks for pointing it out, I wasn't looking to deprive you of 
the credit.

Regards

cr


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