Curious kmail question

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Andy Green wrote:
> linuxmaillists at charter.net 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