Re: Jumping ship

On 01/12/11 23:39, cr wrote:
> 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
>
> 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.
>
No worries. It's the nature of the Internet.

Cheers,

Cliff


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