Theo wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] reply-to settings' on Thu, Aug 05 at 04:48:
Wed, 04 Aug 2004, by james.knott@rogers.com:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
Why not just use KMail?
Aside from the fact it frequently dies, I don't care for it.
Tried kmail last week, fsckd my mailboxes really good. I fed it the locations of my maildir boxes, expecting to be able to go to each individual box to read mail from it, like I do in Mutt.
After kmail moved all fo my inbox messages to a new inbox and mangled the dates no them so i couldn't sort by received date any more, I learned how to use some Perl modules to fix the timestamp on files based on the Received: header in the messages (I never sort on the user-provided and usually wrong Date: header). I learned two things. I learned how to use some more perl modules to parse email headers, and that kmail is crap. If I tell a mail program where my mail is, all it needs to do is *read* it, not friggin' move it to the place the mail program thinks I should store everything, and esp. not screwing up the timestamps on all of the files! Later, I started using kmail on a large IMAP folder (no more direct folder access for you, you ill-behaved program). It's incredibly slow to deal with mailboxes containing 4K-7K messages. Evolution is also similarly slow. Thunderbird handles them just fine, though, as does mutt. Same mail server, same dual 2.4GHz Athlon MP client. Nothing shoudl ever be slow on that machine, but kmail finds a way to do so. That's three strikes (I count mangling my mailbox as 2 strikes - it was that irritating). Kmail, you're out. --Danny, using a combination of squirrelmail and mutt now - which works cosistently even when travelling