phanisvara das said the following on 05/31/2011 11:57 AM:
But I use Thunderbird and Firefox and Lightening so the PIM side of it is no use to me. I use thunderbird via an IMAP link to my mail hub on a separate machine. I have no use for KDE PIM and don't foresee every having any.
i prefer kmail, but in order to avoid akonadi i'm using thunderbird now. mail gets collected by fetchmail & served via dovecot, so that's not a problem.
I too use, as I've mentioned here before, fetchmail|spamassassin to collect and IMAP to access. Some IMAP servers are nice about indexing too :-) But for me its not 'avoid'. I've used T'Bird for years and don't see what advantage - other than cleaning out some Gnome-ness - switching to Kmail offers. After all, I have many useful plugins for T'Bird and FF that KMail and Konqueror don't have and are unlikely to have. The whole point there is that I can pick and choose. That has always been the advantage of Linux. But it sees some of the KDE developers are thinking like Microsoft and want to lead us into a closed garden of fully integrated packages like MS-Office. -- Business folks don't "respect" the technical folks because they think that the technical folks don't understand the "business" as well as the business folks do. Which might be true. But I am willing to bet that the technical folks understand the business a little better than the business folks understand the technology. -- Darko Gavrilovic, 18th August, 2008 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org