On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Andy Green wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >> 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. > > One needs advice when the lack is in the user. If the lack is in the > software, that takes developers to sort out. > Just a thought, Andy. If you have a problem and linuxmaillists and I don't, does that mean that the lack is in the software? > In the meanwhile, the great thing about IMAP is still that you can try > as many clients as you like without losing data. If one crashes or is > slow with your server, you most definitely ought to try another without > a second thought. > What makes you believe that kmail is not being developed or maintained? I haven't seen many new features lately, but then it's hard to think what new features would be really useful. Certainly small improvements and response to bug reports do happen all the time. They may not always be as fast as we'd like, but then this is OSS. Not everyone can work full-time on development. I don't know how many kde people are full-time, or even if any are. Anne
