Hi Joshua, Thanks for your reply.
-----Original Message----- From: Joshua Lee [mailto:yid@SoftHome.net] Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2002 16:06 To: Dave Barton; Suse-Linux-E Subject: Re: [SLE] 2 Kmail Questions
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:20 pm, Dave Barton wrote:
I have abandoned my quest to find a Linux equivalent to Outlook and
Have you taken a look at Evolution 1.x? (Not the old early beta that is what unfortunately comes with 7.3 and earlier.)
I downloaded the basic Ximain Desktop for SuSE 7.3 which included Evolution 1.0.1
now I am scratching around to find individual apps that will provide something similar to the functions of Outlook. I am considering using Kmail as an e-mail option. Can anyone tell me:
I'm using KMail now, due to having reinstalled and not having the patience to download at 56kbps all of Evolution's needed libraries.
a) Is it possible to completely close the auto-view (pain) pane? By close I mean disable it completely, not just minimize it out of sight.
It can be certainly minimized, why do you want it disabled?
The reasons I want it be disabled (or at least the facility to switch it off): Partly an old Outlook habit, where I can see the message sender + subject and delete anything which looks suspect. OK this may not _currently_ be a problem in Linux e-mail apps, but it's a habit I am not going to change. Also I don't like the M$ style of instant viewing panes. More importantly is the fact that when I click on an unread message (regardless of the reason for selecting it) it instantly changes the highlighting / color to a read message (regardless of the viewer pane's visibility). Consequently, with hundreds of e-mails every day, I have to try and work out which messages I have actually read and those I just selected. This Kmail behaviour makes the highlighting / coloring of read & unread messages an exercise in ridiculous futility.
b) Is there any true message archive facility within Kmail?
I'm not sure what you mean. You can save messages to folders, and messages you send out are automatically archived in the sent-mail folder.
I haven't checked if Kmail physically stores the messages in the sent and inbox folders as individual files or in one collective file (eg. Outlook .pst file), but surely there must come a time when you want to clean up these folders. Agreed, you can just simply delete the messages from the folders, but how does Kmail archive and restore those messages that you want to keep (say on a fd or zip) for possible future reference. Archiving is such an incredibly trivial function to code for any application which uses any kind of database, I am surprised this function is still not a standard part of Kmail. It has to be trivial, because I have written 7 or 8 (DOS / Windows) applications which include this facility. Oh well, maybe Evolution 2 will enable me to finally dump Outlook. Dave