Re: KMail2 is getting better.

[Claude Jones]

On Monday, September 27, 2010, Martin Kho wrote:
>  Don't know if some one else is still fiddling with KMail 2, but
>  I think it's a  lot better usable now. At least, it doesn't
>  'eat babies' anymore :-) I'm using KMail2 as part of KDE
>  4.5.1-2 (F15, rawhide), in 'IMAP-mode' (gmail). Of course
>  there are some issues:
>  
>  1. Notifications are rather paranoia. Notifications appear at
>  random, telling  that there are new messages but there aren't.
>  2. Switching from one folder to another doesn't activate latest
>  read message  in that folder.
>  3. Selecting a To: recipient from the contacts list doesn't
>  show up in the To:  field of the New mail compose window. 
Martin: I posted a number of issues some time back that I was 
having, and others that occurred when I tried to revert. I was 
finally able to figure it out and have successfully gone back. 
Before I did, what I was getting: 
1) I didn't get the issue with notifications
2) I didn't have this problem either
3) I didn't try this one, so I can't say

What I did get was a lot of confusion regarding what was already 
downloaded mail, and what wasn't. Messages would get downloaded 
multiple times. Sometimes, they would get filtered into the 
appropriate folder, sometimes a duplicate would be downloaded and 
left in the inbox - (I was having to highlight new mail 
constantly, and do a 'Ctl-j' to run the filters manually, followed 
by going to each folder and running a 'Ctl-Shift-* to eliminate 
duplicates)- with over 40 folders, this got to be very tedious. 
Processing time started out terrible but seemed to improve with 
subsequent updates, but, the filtering/duplicate download problem 
never resolved - for now, I'm back to previous version, and KMail 
is working well again 

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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA