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On Samstag, 17. November 2007, Florian D. wrote: |
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> Mark Haney wrote: |
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> > Well, I'm sitting here reading about the lack of thunderbird devel over |
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> > the next year or two until the new Mozilla project (or whatever you wish |
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> > to call it) gets rolling and I'm wondering, what is a good replacement |
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> > for Tbird, specifically for KDE. |
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> > I use Evolution when I'm in GNOME at home, but I've really disliked it's |
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> > direction recently. KMail works off and on, but might be suitable. But |
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> > are there any others out there not built with gtk+ so I don't have to |
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> > compile all that just for one app? |
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> That is a good question. I cannot support all the votes for kmail. If |
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> you want to switch to mdir based mailboxes and you want to use kmail |
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> just as a local mailbox reader, the first thing that kmail does, is to |
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> move all your mails into some obscure ~/kde3.5/share/apps/kmail/... |
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no, it really does not. It uses ~/Mail like everybody else. |
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> directory. After that, your mails are not available for other |
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> mail-clients any more. nice behaviour, isn't it? |
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they are very available (not like evolution, which really fucks you up). |
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> I couldn't find a way to tell kmail not to do that, but to read the |
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> mails from the preconfigured place instead. |
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> A second point is, that kmail does not scale well for large mailboxes. |
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Is 33600 mails large or 59000 (just gentoo mails)? |
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