Dear Michael,

> > In this, it is quite unfortunate that kmail uses its own inbox in
> > Mail/Inbox. Imagine: * I read a mail with kmail and decide to leave it in
> > my inbox to answer it later * the next time, I use pine - but the above
> > mail is gone into ~Mail/inbox. Now I have to tell pine to go into this
> > special folder. My whole workflow is broken.
>
> What about setting up a local POP3 server if not already running and using
> that instead of the local account?

It should be easier than this. What if I'm not the sysadmin on my
cluster? See below.

> > The same problem with procmail. Why do I need to do something special to
> > use procmail? Pine is fine if procmail writes into ~Mail. Why can't kmail?

> A way to use procmail together with KMail is described in the FAQ.

You are right, of course. But the way described is too complicated, in
my opinion. When I want to add another destination mailfile for procmail
I would have to configure it twice: once in my .procmailrc, and the
other time in the kmail config. Thats too much. What happens if I change
a mailfolder name in .procmailrc but forget it for kmail? Right now my
.procmailrc knows about 15 destination mailfolders. The probability of
screwing up something is high.

I assume the two problems are really one: kmail can not deal with
folders that change while kmail is running. This means it can't deal
with procmail writing into some folder in ~/Mail and it can't deal with
the inbox staying /var/spool/mail/<user> because in this case the local
mail daemon would write too it sometimes.

This problem can be overcome. Pine works just fine with all this.

It seems to me this is a model which is a leftover from POP3 and just
doesn't cut it for local (or IMAP) mail. Is there a chance that you guys
will fix this in the future? I would really like to use kmail....

Sincerely

Hans


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