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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: What to do with kcmemail
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-07-19 22:29:05
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On Thursday 19 July 2001 21:33, Michael Häckel wrote:
>
> My personal opinion is, kcmemail should be disabled for the release.
>
> Reasons:
(...)
>
> - AFAIK it is not used by any application. Just KMail claims to be
> able to import information from there and copy to its own profile,
> but that seems to be broken.

KOrganizer uses it.

> In general, it would be nice, if the information KMail stores in its
> identities would be shared between applications like at least KMail
> and KNode. However for that, it would be required, that kcmemail
> supports signatures and a pgp identity. The settings about accounts
> and smtp server IMHO don't belong there. They are very application
> specific. Even a different mail KDE based mail client (and I heavily
> doubt, that there will ever come one up, that can compete with KMail,
> although some people try it :-) would probably have different options
> there and KNode doesn't need this information at all.

Agreed. Why don't you fix kcmemail, so that it fits your needs? Since 
KMail is the main user and the code for the configuration already 
exists in the KMail preferences dialog, it would only be logical to 
move this code to kcmemail.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>

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