From kmail-devel Mon Apr 30 18:37:42 2001 From: Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:37:42 +0000 To: kmail-devel Subject: Bug#24783: option missing for interoperability: leave/keep mails in local inbox X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kmail-devel&m=98868982631407 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 30. April 2001 17:22, Hans Ecke wrote: > You are right, of course. If I only used kmail or another mailer that > can deal with the inbox beeing just a file in ~/Mail everything would > be just fine. Problem is that people will continue to use several > mailers. At least for the time it takes them to switch to kmail. But > even afterwards there are situations where you will need a > console-only solution (you are only loged in via telnet, not running > an X-server). Then maybe mutt is a better solution than pine. > It all comes down to compatibility with other mailers. I believe > compatibility is very important. Maybe. But we certainly can't be compatible to all mailers. > > If you really need this, how about implementing a "move mail back > > to local inbox" and providing us with the necessary patch. > > As I see it (which might be wrong, you guys are the experts), this > would not solve the problem. I guess you are right. But I also guess that this compatibility issue doesn't have a high priority for the developers. Therefore it's not very likely that it will be solved in the near future if ever. > You have this model that kmail has its own mailfolders in ~/Mail > where it has complete control. Every once in a while it looks into > all local mailfolders (which are filled by the maildaemon or > procmail) and downloads all new mails from them. It seems to me that > this model is just fine as long as we are dealing with only POP3. But > it is too confining for local mail (or IMAP, probably). Netscape Messenger does it the same way. I know this is no excuse. But I guess the original developers of KMail mimicked Messenger's way of doing it. And this might have been a bad decision with regard to compatibility with other MUAs. Regards, Ingo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE67bD5GnR+RTDgudgRAoPSAJwO+jQxuHgc12qy6awYp0mK0B+1sACeLOnW ClO25h5JlcuTnuVrMTf1yjo= =8w9A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Kmail Developers mailing list Kmail@master.kde.org http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmail