On Fri 06 Sep 2013 22:23:47 NZST +1200, Ross Drummond wrote: > I have used Kmail as my mail client and have been happy with it.
Ditto, but have not been happy with it. Have not found anything better though. I like the calendar with it. > On advise I have frozen Kmail to version 1.13 as newer versions are regarded > as unstable and the Akonadi server hard dependency even more so. > > Any advice on whether I should persist with Kmail or change to whatever you > recommend. I stayed with 1.13 too, but it has some really annoying bugs, also in the calendar and todo lists. Those bugs have been fixed in 4.10.5. kmail is OK if you stick with maildir. Unfortunately it does a resounding flop with mbox files. You can get it to work, but it's a bit painful and dogslow, and that's not because it can't be done but because mbox has become politically incorrect some while back and the kmail code is, uhhmm, underdeveloped. You configure the mail locations as "resources" in akonadi. System settings, personal information. As type, use "maildir". The type "mixedmaildir" gives you maildir too, but also reads mbox files in the top-level directory, and in lower levels if you pull that (*&$@* symlink trick. There are a number of bugs with mbox file handling and it likes to deadlock. It is better than 1.13 though. IMAP boxes are configured the same way, but choose type "imap" as information source. The default for storing your mail is somewhere under ~/.kde4/share/blablabla, so you want to fix that when you configure the resource. Sender identities and sending accounts are configured separately and it's easy. Address auto-completion has one annoying bug in that it doesn't work when the nepomuk "semantic desktop" is enabled, but kmail pesters you initially that the opposite is true. So turn the semantic desktop on, make kmail happy, then turn it off again. Then you have to get kmail back on track by going into akonadiconsole, agent tab, and delete the nepomuk feeder agent. It will be auto-reacreated. Rumour has it this bug exists because two different processes start up with a race condition. Blerrgh to every-bloody-SQL. HTH, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
