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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#12025: kmail should co-exist with other mail retreival/filtering programs
From:       Douglas Kilpatrick <dougk () tislabs ! com>
Date:       2000-09-28 19:00:36
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Package: kmail
Severity: wishlist

Why re-invent the wheel?  I have a perfectly good MTA, "fetchmail".  I
have a perfectly good MDA that does filtering: "procmail".  What I want
kmail to do is to view and manage the mail.

Why should I have kmail DL my mail when I've already got a perfectly good
(and very flexible) program to do that?  Maybe I use some of the advanced
features of fetchmail that kmail doesn't have yet?  Maybe I use some
esoteric feature that kmail should never have... Why does Kmail want to
tie me to its mail retreival system?

Why should I have to have kmail import the mail to its files when
I've already got it sorted out into various mailboxes?  Just read and
manage it in place...  Procmail's filtering is very flexible, cause that's
all it does.  Putting procmail-style filtering into kmail would be a
mistake, but not letting me use procmail in a straight forward manner is
also a mistake.

This is basically why I still use XFmail.

Doug
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dougk@tislabs.com
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