On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:04:20 +0100 Bob Williams wrote:

On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 00:41:50 +1000 Lindsay Mathieson wrote:

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On 15/08/2016 11:01 AM, Bob Rea wrote:

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It is gone. and any advice about preventing this from happening again

Don't use kmail.

Perhaps a better suggestion is don't use POP3. IMAP is the future, already.

Oops. Wrong thread | list. Sorry. -- Bob Williams System: Linux 4.1.20-11-default Distro: openSUSE 42.1 (x86_64) Desktop: KDE Frameworks: 5.21.0, Qt: 5.5.1 and Plasma: -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org

On 2016-08-18 17:08, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Bob Williams [08-18-16 11:05]:

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On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 00:41:50 +1000 Lindsay Mathieson wrote:

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On 15/08/2016 11:01 AM, Bob Rea wrote:

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It is gone. and any advice about preventing this from happening again

Don't use kmail.

Perhaps a better suggestion is don't use POP3. IMAP is the future, already.

And neither of these ?suggestions? is helpful in solving his problems.

Well, he said he wants to prevent this from happening again, and both not using kmail and using imap may help in that >:-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)

On 08/18/2016 11:04 AM, Bob Williams wrote:

On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 00:41:50 +1000 Lindsay Mathieson wrote:

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On 15/08/2016 11:01 AM, Bob Rea wrote:

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It is gone. and any advice about preventing this from happening again

Don't use kmail.

Perhaps a better suggestion is don't use POP3. IMAP is the future, already.

Well, its a yes/no/maybe Certainly KMail drags in a number of KDE things that you might not want, compared to the all-in-one -- well OK not quite, since it uses sqlite - of Thunderbird. Some of us are allergic to the whole akonadai thing! Using IMAP means you don't have to download and store all the messages - body that is. And you can delete them on the server. Many ISPs also allow filtering to be carried out on the server. Some do but in a constrained manner, for example not allowing shell access, not allowing you to set up procmail. I have one pernicious ISP who wants to charge extra for IMAP! So I use fetchmail to download using POP, run it though spamassassin and procmail to do a LOT of filtering, and then point Dovecot at the store. The end result is that my email reader, I choose Thunderbird, use IMAP and only IMAP for all mail reading. I'm a KDE user and have been for a long time. I've looked at, tried out, KMail a number of times and each time it has come up, in my opinion, lacking, for a variety of reasons. Yes, there are many cookbook recipes, but they make assumptions about the ISP that are simply not valid in my case, and as I understand, the cases of many people I've discussed this with off-forum. As far as the OP is concerned, IMAP may be a solution. Certainly KMail can handle IMAP as well if not better than POP, and in all probability the ISP is going to be more experienced than most users, and despite years and Grey Beard, I'd add myself in that category, at taking care of the business of email. Wouldn't we all rather scream and shout and point fingers rather than admit to our own <strike>stupidity</strike> mistakes? Blame them for loosing your email. Maybe they will give you a refund :-) -- The interests of society are better served by a system that encourages efficient trade activity than by one that encourages litigation. -- Amber Manx in Charles Stross's "Accerando" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org