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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: KMail last of 16 Win/Mac/Linux Mail Clients in c't test!
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-07 9:11:04
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On Saturday 05 May 2001 19:05, Don Sanders wrote:
[...]
> Over the past few years I've spent the majority of my time ignoring
> people's requests for new features (I would use KMail if only it could...)
> and instead concentrated on trying to improve the existing KMail
> functionality. That means trying really hard to find and fix mail losing
> bugs, fixing annoyances, fixing performance (memory/speed) problems, making
> sense of garbage sent by other mail clients (eg. decent threading),  etc.

:-)

> Basically I've tried to make current users happier, in a few areas I've
> failed to do that. Specifically SMTP-Auth and SMTP-after-POP support are
> becoming popular and KMail hasn't keep current there.

IMO this is something that can still be added with not too much effort.

The big advantage of not adding too much features is that the application
is kept rather slim and one does not have to expect too many nasty side
effects from features biting each others.

> I feel that the majority of features KMail was criticized for not
> supporting are useful features that are desirable to support, they are
> features that will be supported, but the implementation should be done well
> rather than quickly.

Second.

--Stefan
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