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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Mailody question
From:       Anne Wilson <cannewilson () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2008-09-08 12:18:35
Message-ID: 200809081318.36570.cannewilson () googlemail ! com
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On Monday 08 September 2008 12:40:24 Tom Albers wrote:
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> Mailody (I'm the author btw) is the only mail client capable of using
> Akonadi, but it is not yet ready for production use. In other words: there
> is no released version of Mailody suitable for end users.
>
> KMail is the prefered email client, currently not based on Akonadi. If
> KMail gets ported to Akonadi, I'm sure there will be a pop3 resource
> available for Akonadi by that time. If that happens Mailody automatically
> gains the possibility to use pop3 as well.
>
> So people should just use KMail and everything will just be fine.
>
> Just remember that we will not deploy Akonadi to a large group of users
> without making absolutely sure the stuff works. We will not gamble with
> users email.
>
I never for one moment thought you would.  I'm just trying to avoid the 
problems we've seen before, with expectations unrealistically high.  Now I 
know the situation I'll know how to answer people.  This is the first time 
someone has mentioned it to me, but the first time always leads to...... :-)

> The quote from the website was just a workaround for people wanting to try
> Mailody based on KDE3, which has no pop3-support. You can install a *local*
> imap server and fetch the message to it and then you can use Mailody. I
> don't think anyone ever did it (except me of course).
>
I have dovecot imap here, so I'd like to try it out as soon as you reckon it's 
almost ready :-)

Anne


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