On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Andy Green wrote: > linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>>> I am trying dovecot on the server > >>>> and kmail on the laptop with an IMAP account. > >>>> Maybe I have set it up wrongly, > >>>> but as I said the email is downloaded to the laptop, > >>>> so if I use another laptop I cannot see this email. > >>> > >>> I suspect that kmail isn't a very clever IMAP client > >>> then. > >> > >> It does seem kmail is not as great as it could be. > > > > Kmail works just fine with IMAP. > > If you have a large folder and a slower server (my Dovecot is running on > a 180MHz ARM using a USB flash stick as the IMAP store), you notice that > kmail is repeatedly putting up its "fetching from the server" graphic > and pulling the folder indexes over and over, which takes many seconds > when switching between folders. Thunderbird doesn't do that. I have > also had KMail segfault, but not Thunderbird. > > This is a few months old but matches my experience > > ''Ultimately, KMail didn't work for me either. It has a number of > extremely serious IMAP and DIMAP bugs which prevent it from being used > in production. In an effort to confirm this, I did consult with folks at > #kontact. It was hard to track anyone down over the course of two days > but I finally did find someone who was able to tell me that KMail isn't > being worked on - all the core developers are busy with their day jobs. > Apparently, all of the bugs I experienced are regressions that have > existed since the KDE 3.4 time frame (some six months ago). ...'' > > http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/56961.html > > Please understand I really like KDE and kmail/kontact was my first > choice. But at the moment I don't recommend it for IMAP at least. > Your opinion, but certainly not mine. If you need specific advice on kmail + imap, the place to get it is on the kde-pim list. It's generally helpful. Anne
