On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Chris Knadle wrote: > - Using "regular" IMAP (i.e. not "disconnected" IMAP) is common, and > in that setup there are only mail indexes locally, and not actual mail > content. I'm not sure how most MUAs would see an mbox or Maildir file > dropped to it in this case.
All the MUA's I've used have local mailboxes - drafts, templates etc in addition to IMAP. > - In the case of KMail2 mail storage is now done via Akonadi which > uses MySQL for storage, so its mail storage isn't in mbox or Maildir > anymore. :-( IIRC Akonadi is just an indexer, not a data store and is also obsoleted by another system now. There should be a drafts folder for it somewhere. > - In the case of Kmail v1 the default location for mail storage was > in subdirectories under ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/ rather than under > ~/mail or ~/Mail like one would expect. [For Debian this issue is > limited to Wheezy.] The main point for mentioning this is that it's > not immediately obvious where to drop an email file to so that it > will be seen by every MUA. Should be doable by checking various paths and also the user's desktop settings to see which is preferred. > - Users that exclusively use webmail won't see local mail. > Unfortunately getting to be common today. :-( Indeed, perhaps a browser API is needed for this. If not maybe reportbug could write a HTML file that does some tricks and have the browser load it. > - Users that don't use email at all. Might be alien to us in Debian > (or at least it surprises me), but that seems to be happening too. Solvable too I think, some prior work on that: https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2007/DebbugsWebUI https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2008/DebbugsWebUI https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2009#Debbugs_Web_UI:_Amancay_Strikes_Back http://alioth.debian.org/projects/bts-webui/ > I've been using reportbug-ng (happily) and thus sending bug reports formatted > by reportbug-ng using a normal mail client. It detects locally installed MUAs > (but it doesn't detect any of the webmail I occasionally use AFAICT). It's > definitely worth trying IMHO. IIRC the webmail things are disabled in the code but work if you enable them. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6GJQJyU=xgto+2uayzc-_-sr8girz2okzagr2xqof2...@mail.gmail.com
