From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ItXI4-0002C5-28 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:41:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lAHNcUp8004387; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:38:30 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lAHNcTjW004366 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:38:29 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 4815A207C5D for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:38:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 049CE207C5B for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:38:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de (account wevah [139.174.197.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.12) with ESMTPSA id 27767181 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:38:28 +0100 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Replacement for Thunderbird. Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:38:26 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <473DF470.1050901@ercbroadband.org> <473E2D8F.1070607@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <473E2D8F.1070607@gmx.at> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711180038.26507.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.3 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 3415faf5-7033-4221-a49b-903927611fc5 X-Archives-Hash: 431822aa528c310e88a80efe47a01e6d On Samstag, 17. November 2007, Florian D. wrote: > Mark Haney wrote: > > Well, I'm sitting here reading about the lack of thunderbird devel over > > the next year or two until the new Mozilla project (or whatever you wish > > to call it) gets rolling and I'm wondering, what is a good replacement > > for Tbird, specifically for KDE. > > > > I use Evolution when I'm in GNOME at home, but I've really disliked it's > > direction recently. KMail works off and on, but might be suitable. But > > are there any others out there not built with gtk+ so I don't have to > > compile all that just for one app? > > That is a good question. I cannot support all the votes for kmail. If > you want to switch to mdir based mailboxes and you want to use kmail > just as a local mailbox reader, the first thing that kmail does, is to > move all your mails into some obscure ~/kde3.5/share/apps/kmail/... no, it really does not. It uses ~/Mail like everybody else. > directory. After that, your mails are not available for other > mail-clients any more. nice behaviour, isn't it? they are very available (not like evolution, which really fucks you up). > I couldn't find a way to tell kmail not to do that, but to read the > mails from the preconfigured place instead. > > A second point is, that kmail does not scale well for large mailboxes. Is 33600 mails large or 59000 (just gentoo mails)? -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list