On Tuesday 14 Feb 2012 14:00:26 Anne Wilson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 14/02/12 12:40, Duncan wrote: > > P Nikolic posted on Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:10:00 +0000 as excerpted: > >> I am having a couple of problems that are becoming a PITA > > > > The by-point replies below probably aren't what you wanted to read, > > but they're how I deal with it. Other than simply pointing them > > out as options, I'm mainly just acknowledging your post, so it > > doesn't go entirely unreplied if someone else doesn't reply with > > solutions hopefully closer to your present setup. > > > >> 1 . Kmail will randomly just bomb out bang gone plus the > >> mailing list filters miss so much mail i have to filter by hand > >> . > > > > FWIW, after trying akonadified kmail, I decided the kmail devs were > > > > taking it, and by extension all of kdepim in a direction opposite > > > > the one I was headed. I don't believe the > > akonadified/database-backed version will be as stable as old kmail > > was, at least for me, for several releases, say 4.10 or so, and I > > considered email too vital to be causing me stability and > > dependability headaches for over a year. > > > > So I switched to claws-mail, which was right for me. The > > conversion process wasn't entirely without issue, but then again, > > neither was the upgrade to akonadified kmail. Other people may be > > more comfortable with thunderbird or evolution, but they weren't > > right for me either, while claws-mail ended up being a better match > > for me than the pre-akonadified kmail was. > > > > So choose what you like, including staying with kmail if you > > continue to be comfortable with it, but if you had thought about > > switching, now's probably the time to do it, because as I said, I > > don't expect kmail to be really stable again for another year, to > > 4.10 or so, based on recent kde stabilization time history. > > Do whatever you can to live with it for just a little longer, or > choose a temporary replacement. Like many others, I had to. The > news, though, is that the kdepim developers had a sprint this weekend > when they found and fixed many issues, so we should be able to expect > a serious improvement in an update very soon. > > Anne > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk86aPEACgkQj93fyh4cnBfOMACghrsmrJeeZJMB3/ZwC225ChKR > 6MMAn3cV+iZK+Jl3vTEuR5DTJI3U6Hen > =fEpE > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > ___________________________________________________ > This message is from the kde mailing list. > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. Hope so . I have tried Claws cant get on with it so .. lifes not nice with Kmail doing a runner all the time and i cant get on with thunderbird either ho humm Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 7 08:34:36 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.