From kde-devel  Tue Jul 12 00:06:35 2011
From: Rui Maciel <rui.maciel () gmail ! com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:06:35 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Build KMail only?
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On 07/11/2011 09:47 AM, Tom Albers wrote:
> Can I also remind everyone at the severe 'kmail-ate-my-mails' from the KMail1 days? There have been numerous reports that KMail ate mails in certain circumstance. Offline IMAP could potentially corrupt data when hitting check-mail at the wrong time, etc. Let's not remember KMail1 as being heaven. It was certainly not.

I've used kmail since the days of kubuntu 5.04 and I don't recall ever 
losing an email due to kmail.  Then again, I accessed my email accounts 
through pop3.

On the other hand, since I've started using KDE4, kmail became a bit 
unusable due to a series of akonadi issues, and things got to the point 
that recently I've said enough and simply migrated to thunderbird.  
kmail was not perfect but it was usable and, at least to me, it was a 
better email client than any other client that I knew.  In fact, I still 
hold the old kmail as a better email client than today's thunderbird.  
Yet, thunderbird does work without a hitch, this can't be said about the 
new kmail.

So, although the old kmail wasn't perfect, that isn't a sign that 
today's kmail is a clear improvement over the old kmail. Unfortunately 
that isn't the case, and to those of us who depend on a working email 
client, these sort of problems do count.

> To address those issues KMail2 was created, that it is not (yet) fully working is a fact, but don't say KMail1 always worked nicely, if that would have been the case, it would not have been rewritten.

But this doesn't mean that the current incantation of kmail does the job 
that the old kmail does, let alone doing it as well.


Rui Maciel
 
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