On Tuesday 18 November 2008 17:33:20 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 23:18 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Since someone else did their evaluation, I thought it was time I took another look at KMail. The new version in 11.1B5 is very nice, and handles somethings even better than Thunderbird. However, as it always has, it just doesn't begin to handle HTML anywhere near as well as T-Bird!! I had hoped it did, not that I use it all the time...I don't. But, when it's is necessary, it needs to do a good job. Maybe in a year or so it will handle it correctly and with a full compliment of features users want.
I would have thought that it used the same rendering engine that the rest of KDE used. Surely KMail does not have its own HTLM renderer. Does it?
Has anyone tried using an IMAP server when you have many folders and sub-folders on the IMAP server? One outstanding problem with KMail that has kept me from using it is that it does not get the count of unread messages correct against a Courier IMAP server. It is a known and often reported bug. The KMail guys always claim it is a Courier problem and leave it at that. However, evolution and the iMAC e-mail client get this right.
Kmail works fine in this regard when running Dovecot rather than Courier. The only problem I've noted with Kmail/Dovecot is that it does not correctly report mailbox *size*. If you choose to display the size, the size never decreases when you delete mails; rather, it continues to increase and seems to display the sum of the size of all the emails that have ever been stored in that folder (and even those values aren't correct). Still, that is a minor annoyance rather than a showstopper, at least for me. Might be a problem for someone trying to manage their mailbox size against an enforced quota. Cheers, -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ===================================================