Downgrading kmail

[Claude Jones]

On Monday, November 14, 2011 09:09:49 AM Anne Wilson wrote:
> Hi Martin.  I tried that, getting lots of conflict
> messages.  The more I  tried to cure the problem, the worse it
> got.  I ended up completely re- installing.  A pain, but
> discretion is the better part of valour   Or, "when you are in
> a deep hole, stop digging!"

I preupgraded this machine to F16 on Sat-Sun. It went surprisingly 
well. KMail continued to exhibit some flakiness after that, but it 
was much improved. I've been slowly working through various 
issues, and it's getting better and better (knock on wood). The 
random changing of message-counts in various folders has finally 
stopped. It's getting faster and faster as I go along. I'm typing 
this message in KMail as a matter of fact. The "Blue bubbles 
mesage screen in lieu of a list of a list of messages, has 
appeared less and less - parenthetically, one folder that is still 
seemingly unable to display is my "Sent-mail" folder - it shows 
the bubbles screen with the "Retrieving folder contents - please 
wait" message. Otherwise, KMail is getting back to its former 
responsiveness - my junk mail filters are working well, clicking 
through messages rapidly no longer crashes it, and most folder 
promptly pop the list of messages in the view pane... We'll see. 
-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA