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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    RE: KMail last of 16 Win/Mac/Linux Mail Clients in c't test!
From:       "Nicholas Hagen" <tommy () zidnet ! net>
Date:       2001-05-05 14:40:01
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Well,

Personally, I find this analysis lopsided and geared towards over excessive
and bloated programs.  Most of those programs have been around for times and
now exist in severe uneccessary bloat.  KMail has stuck to its simple, easy
to
use nature.  And even as we add more functionality to it, it still stays
unbloated.

Anyways, I'm not quite sure how they can consider KMail a not so good
application.
I sure don't.

Nick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kmail-admin@master.kde.org [mailto:kmail-admin@master.kde.org]On
> Behalf Of Marc Mutz
> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 5:34 AM
> To: kmail@kde.org
> Subject: KMail last of 16 Win/Mac/Linux Mail Clients in c't test!
>
>
> Hi!
>
> Bad news, folks. German c't magazine tested 16 mail clients for the
> three platforms Win/Mac/Linux and KMail (1.2 oof KDE 2.1) has gotten the
> worst marks.
>
> Category\Mark    KMail Evolution OE  Eud.(L) NSMail TheBat!
> User Comfort     o     +         +   ++      +      +
> POP functions    -     -         ++  o       -      ++
> IMAP Functions   n/a   o         -   o       +      --
> Misc. Functions  -     -         o   +(-)    o      +
> Security         -     --        o   ++      o      ++
>
> ++ = very good ; + = good ; o = ok ; - = bad ; -- = very bad
>
> The biggest drawbacks - according to c't - are:
>
> User Comfort/
> Misc. Functions:
>   Comparing it with the others, I think that this should be a o/+. It's
> clear that the testers didn't find some of the important functionality
> (but that is sometimes as bad as not having it at all, esp. when the
> product claims to be easy to use): Completion form the addressbook and
> so on.
>   Template support.
>
> POP functions:
>   You cannot download headers and only load the body on read (like e.g.
> knode does with news articles).
>   You cannot prohibit d/l of certain mails (e.g. exceeding a certain
> size).
>
> IMAP functions:
>   Even the dev version doesn't have: Search on the server.
>
> Security:
> (the most important aspect - the worse that KMail has gotten only "-")
>   Cannot stop loading elements of HTML mails from the net (images,
> "web-bugs").
>   Reject Return Receipts.
>   SMTP-AUTH/SMTP-after-POP/APOP
>   sending and receiving via SSL
>   S/MIME
>
> I've written to them explaining that they have left out some of the
> functionality and asking if they can correct the summary table in their
> next issue.
>
> Marc
>
> --
> Marc Mutz <Marc@Mutz.com>     http://EncryptionHOWTO.sourceforge.net/
> University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
>
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