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 1ItVqF-0006wx-8f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:08:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lAHM6nHQ016857; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:06:49 GMT Received: from smta03.mailhost.uunet.com.au (smta03.mailhost.uunet.com.au [203.166.99.117]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lAHM6jxE016843 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:06:48 GMT Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([124.189.32.141]) by smta03.mailhost.uunet.com.au with ESMTP id <20071117220643.RFRG4078.smta03.mailhost.uunet.com.au@[192.168.2.2]> for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:06:43 +0000 From: Paul Colquhoun To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Replacement for Thunderbird. Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:06:41 +1100 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: <200711180906.41607.paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au> X-Archives-Salt: d47b8e8d-a7e4-44de-9983-50ca71dd1e69 X-Archives-Hash: 657418dd844f83a409767d879be64bb9 On Sat, 17 Nov 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/... > directory. After that, your mails are not available for other > mail-clients any more. nice behaviour, isn't it? > 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. I've been using kmail for years, and it's always been happy to keep my email under ~/Mail and I have no trouble using mutt to access the kmail directory when I an logged in via ssh. As for scaling, I have some folders with over 3000 messages in them, and can't recall any problems accessing them. What size mailbox do you consider to be "large" and what scaling problems does it trigger? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list