David C. Rankin said the following on 11/23/2011 02:20 PM:
If there is any chance you will use windows again, use Thunderbird, you can easily transfer your mail setup from Linux -> Win -> Linux with mozilla. You can do it in a round-about way with kmail, but with the current state of flux in kmail development, it would be wise to stick with mozilla for now.
I made the decision a while ago to have a machine acting as a mail gateway/hub 'at home', much the way that corporation have a Microsoft Exchange server handling the mail for a department or site. And yes, David, I can run other collaborative tools on it :-) That hub has a Dovecot server that handles email. All email stays on the server and I read it via IMAP. At home I read it via IMAP on the home LAN; outside I read it via an encrypted version of IMAP using TLS etc etc etc. As such it really doesn't matter what mail reader I use or what machine I use it from. My complaint with Mail is that nepomuk indexes the mail if I use Kmail. WHY?!? Dovecot has already indexed it! I can tell Dovecot to search. So I disable nepomuk. The thing about Thunderbird is that if you want something fancy its available as a plugin. Many of the plugins are useful and would be useful for Kmail. Of course if you don't want them you don't install them :-) Sadly the code to use nepomuk is not a plugin and you are stuck with it. If you install Kmail you have to install nepomuk even if you won't use it. If I was a programmer I'd set up a OBS of KDE4-without-nepomuk. The be fair, that not the only thing that should be done with a plugin but isn't. The settings in /etc/nsswitch determine things like UID->name mapping. There is a library call for this: getpwent(). See 'man nsswitch.conf' Now why is this no implemented as a plugin? Why must getpwent() and its relatives have all the various nsswitch options HARD CODED in? As a result you HAVE to load all the LDAP and NIS even if you don't use them Ironically the man age for nsswitch says: "With Solaris, it isn't possible to link programs using the NSS Service statically. With Linux, this is no problem." Yes, its not statically compiled, but it is statically bound. -- All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. -- Galileo Galilei. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org