Jörg Stadermann posted on Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:43:35 +0200 as excerpted: > At this point desperation set in. It seemed , there wasn't a feasible > replacement for kmail, which would suit my needs. > > Enter claws-mails: It's not pretty, some of it's configuration seems a > bit odd, PIM is limited to a vCalendar-plugin, but it's doing the job. > There's nothing I did in kmail I can't do in claws-mail and I guess > there are a lot of things it can do that kmail doesn't. And yes, you can > use vim as editor ;-) > So if you're looking for a kmail replacement, have a look at claws-mail. > For me it seems to be the best option for kmail power users. As regulars already know, I've been recommending claws-mail for anyone having problems with kmail, as well. I'm a very happy user! =:^) There /is/ however at least one thing that I did in kmail, that I couldn't find a built-in or existing helper-script replacement for, for claws. Mostly as a debugging aid, back on kmail, I had all my filters set to insert a custom header, X-kmail-filter: labeled with the name of the filter, so I could see which of my many anti-spam filters, for instance, sent something to the trash folder, if I decided I wanted to save such messages. As I said, I couldn't figure out how to do that on claws, either built-in or with the existing helper-scripts (tools section on the website). But being reasonably proficient with bash, I quickly found a script on the website that did something similar (I think it added a timestamp header), and modified it to add the header fed to it as a commandline parameter, to the message file also fed to it as a commandline parameter. So the other day, after someone else migrating from kmail reminded me about it, I sent that script in to the claws-mail folks, and got a reply saying it should be added shortly (tho I don't see it yet). claws-addheader is its name, when it's added, or if you're interested before it's added to the site, ask and I can mail it to you. Meanwhile, it's worth noting that there's another qt4-based mail client available, "trojita", but it ONLY does IMAP, not POP3 (which all my providers use, so I couldn't run it here unless I setup my own IMAP server), and is reasonably new and thus likely a bit immature as yet. But if you're on IMAP so /can/ use it, it might be worth checking out at least. http://trojita.flaska.net/ (For gentooers, it's in-tree as mail-client/trojita.) If claws-mail hadn't worked for me for some reason, I was thinking about setting up an IMAP server (perhaps dovecot), and trying trojita. But I decided to try claws-mail first, and it was just about the perfect match for me, so I never did do the IMAP thing and thus didn't get to try trojita. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ 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.