[nzlug] All email clients suck, no exceptions

[cr]

On Saturday 28 July 2007 08:42, Brenda Wallace wrote:
> On Thursday 26 July 2007 17:11:16 Robin Sheat wrote:
> > On Friday 27 July 2007 11:23:47 David McNab wrote:
> > > Hey thanks, Liz. Been a while since I tried it, and KDE has moved on in
> > > leaps and bounds since then. Maybe should try it again.
> >
> > I've been using kmail for a few years now, and it's gotten steadily
> > better. The main issue with I have with it is that it doesn't multithread
> > imap access, and so you can spend a fair amount of time waiting for it to
> > do things like check mail.
>
> kmail is currently without a maintainer.... - but it's still my favourite.

One of the nice things about Kmail - and Balsa - is that it uses mbox or 
maildir for its messages, not some cryptic format that nothing else can read.
Makes it very easy for mucking around with installs.  

I've just tried a 64-bit Debian install for a few days, Kmail in 64 had a 
weird problem with losing track of which messages had been read (i.e. they 
kept reverting to 'unread' status) so I used Balsa.   Now, for other reasons, 
I'm back with 32-bit for the time being, and it was easy to copy the messages 
back from the 64-bit Kmail AND Balsa folders, stick them in Kmail's folder 
here, and Kmail reads 'em all fine.   (Curiously, the messages that refused 
to 'stay read' in Kmail64 refuse to 'stay read' in this version too - so I've 
segregated them in a different folder - but new incoming messages behave as 
they should).

cr