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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#24783: option missing for interoperability: leave/keep mails in local inbox
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2001-04-30 18:37:42
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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
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