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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: kdenetwork/kmail
From:       Andreas Gungl <a.gungl () gmx ! de>
Date:       2001-04-15 19:57:14
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On Sunday 15 April 2001 12:52, Michael Häckel wrote:
> On Sunday, 15. April 2001 11:34, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> > ignored/rejected), one person wondering why GPG hangs kmail, and a
> > handful
>
> At least this specific issue is already fixed in CVS since some time.
>
> > of people who can't use kmail to send stuff because they need SMTP
> > auth.

Alex, instead of complaining about problems which are reported by very, 
very few peoples and which are not only KMail's problem, it would be better 
to do something more contructive.

Currently a lot of people send the 100th copy of an existing wishlist item 
or bug report and cry loud for their missing "killer feature", but they 
forget that somebody has to do the coding as well as the bug list 
maintenance.

I think, the resources of all KMail developers are limited, but they use 
the time very well. KMail got a lot of new features, sometimes I even 
wonder if the speed isn't to high. IMO it's hard to keep track with the 
improvements if someone is not reading the mailing list or if he is not
directly involved in the development.

> > When I look at kmail, I see a program that's constantly reinventing the
> > wheel.  All the time spent writing these additional wheels could be
> > used to come up with a more generic approach and debug it.  These are
> > design choices that are extremely poor.  For instance, kmail duplicates
> > MD5
>
> At least KMail supports SMTP far longer since a kio slave for that
> exists, I also don't know about the MD5 code. At least as long as I
> devolop on KMail, there was never a change on that and I personally
> condider these message digest fairly unimportant.

It sounds like the wish for a rewrite from scratch as proposed in this list 
some time ago. I think, it's not realistic to come up with this. I cannot 
imagine who would do the real work. Some good ideas do not make a good 
program, you have to spend dozen hours of coding. Who will do this? The 
current developers already have more than enough work without that.
And if somebody is thinking, it's time to start with a really new MUA, then 
they might start and let their program compete with KMail.

And finally there is still another option, if someone doesn't like KMail, 
then he might use one of the many other MUAs out there.

Regards,
Andreas


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