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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Future improvements to Kmail
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2001-10-18 21:18:33
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Deathtar wrote:
> I use Kmail v1.2 on KDE 2.1.2. I have compared this with other mail
> clients on the windows platform, and find that KMail does lack some
> features. I used Kaufman Mail Warrior v3.61 (freeware) and Phoenix
> Mail v0.92.08 (copylefted). Here are some features i would like to
> see in newer versions of KMail.
>
> -Each mail account has seperate inbox,outbox,trash,draft folders.
> This is a feature sorely lacking in KMail. While you could use
> filters, its a difficult task, and some actions are not possible(for
> eg, moving drafts from the normal box to another "account specific"
> folder). This feature is the highest on my wishlist.

First of all, I don't know why this is necessary. I have five or six 
email accounts but all my sorting is completely independent of the 
account I use. Do you have separate accounts for different purposes? 
Like one for the KDE mailing lists, one for personal mail, one for work 
related mail, etc.? The only things which might be o.k. are separate 
inboxes which is already possible (simply choose different destination 
folders in the configuration of your POP accounts) and separate draft 
folders (but I still don't think they should be account related). 
Separate outboxes and trash folders IMHO don't make sense.
BTW, configuring filters is really easy. And filters are far more 
powerful than account related folders.
I don't understand what doesn't work for you. What do you mean by 
'moving drafts from the normal box to another "account specific"
folder'

> -Word wrapping selection. It would be nice if you could have the
> option to specify the text to be wrapped to a certain number of
> character per line.

Do you mean word wrapping of selected text?

> -Prompting for downloading when the mail size larger than a specified
> number of bytes. (Useful when you're getting junk attachments).

Someone promised to work on this.

> -Ability to copy text from received messages to the "clipboard".
> Currently "copying" selected text means moving the entire message to
> another folder.

I don't get you. As Seth already wrote "copying" selected text is easy. 
Simply select the text you want to copy with the mouse and then paste 
it either with the middle mouse button or the paste key (Ctrl+V).

> -Ability to select sound files to be played on receiving/sending mail

Playing sound files on receiving mail is possible by configuring KMail 
to execute a command like 'playwav newmail.wav'. If you what to play a 
sound on sending mail define an outgoing filter which executes a 
command like 'playwav sending.wav'.

> -The default action on double clicking on a message in the outbox or
> drafts folder is to view the message. It would be much better if the
> default action was editing. Similarly, the default action on inbox
> items could be to reply to the message.

Double click on messages in the outbox and drafts folder opens these 
messages in the composer in the current KMail version. Double clicking 
to reply to a message is not intuitive.

> May I suggest that you have a personal look at Kaufman Mail Warrior,
> which i think is an excellent mail client. Its presently avail
> presently only on the Win platform, but the author says he may port
> it to linux. I think that it's address book is par excellence. Its on
> the web at http://www.kaufmansoft.com.

I won't have a look at Windows programs.

> Dont get me wrong, I think that KMail is a good app. But I also think
> it could do with some improvements.

We are constantly working on improving KMail. But we mainly improve 
things which we consider important, e.g. IMAP support, OpenPGP support, 
S/MIME support, better handling of large messages, etc.

Regards,
Ingo
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