Dear Release Team. Yes, KMail is really as bad as indicated in the enclosed message. And so are many of the KDEPIM apps.
Only KAlarm, KTimeTracker (formerly KArm) and a few other support tools will be ready for release. I can't see KMail, KNode, Akregator, Kontact or KPilot being ready .. unless we have a Christmas Miracle. Maybe KOrganizer will be ready. David Jarvie, Thomas and I are the only ones putting any real time into KDEPIM. But, alas, we failed to make much progress with such a huge module. I tried my best. Anyway... how to proceed? Simply leave out the kdepim -4.0.0 tarball? -Allen ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [Kde-pim] Request to exclude KMail from the KDE 4.0 release Date: Thursday 06 December 2007 From: Thomas McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, OK, here is my offical request to keep KMail out of the KDE 4.0 release. There are too many things badly broken (see list below), and there is only me and some occasional contributers working on KMail for trunk. I definitly don't have the time to fix these problems myself, even though we have another month until KDE 4.0 is released. I stronly oppose releasing KMail in the current state, because of the grave problems (like mail loss) it has. It would ruin its reputation and the users would be rightfully angry and disappointed. So please, exclude KMail from the release. Can this be done when tagging the release (or release canidates)? The question then is of course what to do with Kontact, as KMail is one of its most important components. Any thoughts? The list of the biggest problems (there are many more small problems of course): 1. Sends HTML mail by default, apparently with wrong content-type so nobody can read it. 2. According to Dmitry Suzdalev, using POP3 with Google Mail has many timeout errors (confirmed by me) and is even deleting mails from the server without retriving them. 3. Mails bigger than ~13 kB can not be sent. To quote Thiago: >"The problem is: kio_smtp is using TCPSlaveBase, which I had ported to QTcpSocket, but reverted due to no SSL support. So, please don't continue your port. Bear with the 1440 bytes limit or help me write the new SSL framework." >"Make SSL work first. Then all problems magically solve." So this won't work until the new SSL framework arrives. 4. The editor is totally broken due to the incomplete port to KMeditor in libkdepim. This is probably also the cause of 1). Some problems include fixed font not working, no green quote font, HTML mode suddenly being enabled after editing drafts/outgoing messages, HTML code appearing after changing identities, broken spellcheck, incorrect toogle actions and probably many more. The broken editor also prevents KNode from sending mails. Fixing the editor properly would take much time. 5. Encryption stuff propably does not work at all. Nobody looked at it during porting and on the krush days somebody reported that it doesn't work. 6. IMAP seems to have some bad bugs: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152652 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152692 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152756 I guess the IMAP port is not entirely completed. Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ KDE PIM mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim KDE PIM home page at http://pim.kde.org/ -------------------------------------------------------
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