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KMail Still Broken?
by Alistair John Strachan on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @12:15

Sorry to keep drumming this up, but KMail's been in a sorry state for the whole of the KDE 3.5 series. It's basically unusable as a primary mailer; it crashes too much with IMAP and dIMAP, problems that didn't exist in the previous major version.

If anybody else here has problems with KMail regularly crashing when doing, well, nothing, on a fairly large IMAP or dIMAP account, please file a bug report. This seems to be one of the biggest recent problems:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126715

Please, don't make me use Thunderbird!

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Re: KMail Still Broken?
by Harry on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @12:16

Thunderbird is one of my (few) not KDE native applications.

My reason? Poor HTML support in KMail.

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Re: KMail Still Broken?
by Carsten Niehaus on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @12:59

I guess you mean "poor html-composing-support in KMail"? If so, the more specific you are the better.

Here is a list of all open KMail-composer bugs with "html" in the subject.

url too long

Please add comments to there bugs to help the KMail-devels fixing the bugs and therefore your problems.

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Re: KMail Still Broken?
by Harry on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @13:04

You're right.

But indeed, that's the major problem. Composing. And specifically not a new message (this works rather well), but replying on a message with a HTML body.

KMail just pastes the html text in the composing window, rather than render the orginal HTML part.

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Re: KMail Still Broken?
by Carsten Niehaus on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @13:43

Is that somehow related to

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65646

or

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121849

If not, please open a new bugreport.

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Re: KMail Still Broken?
by birthday child :P on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @15:45

for me, Kontact/Kmail wasn't broken the whole KDE 3.5.x releases. i am also using imap folders. just, spam-filtering is strange, but i didn't set it up very well.. maybe i have to use APOP protocol, dunno.

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Re: KMail Still Broken?
by Alistair John Strachan on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @03:09

You probably don't have enough emails in one directory to provoke it.

I've got directories of 6000+ emails and it doesn't handle these very well.

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Re: KMail Still Broken?
by Gralbe on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @17:20

> I've got directories of 6000+ emails and it doesn't handle these very well.

I've got directories of 8500+ emails and I'm not seeing a problem (for the entire 3.5 series).

Which IMAP server are you connecting to? I'm currently connecting to a courier imap server.

Not trying to say you aren't having problems, but it's certainly not as simple as the number of messages.

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Re: KMail Still Broken?
by Alistair John Strachan on Friday 04/Aug/2006, @15:13

Courier IMAP. I'm certain this has nothing to do with the server, it happened on different IMAP servers too.

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Re: KMail Still Broken?
by parena on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @03:28

I haven't had any of your problems with KMail during 3.5, actually. And I only use IMAP: one smaller one and one that now contains 241M of mail. My wife's IMAP account even contains 426M of mail.

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Re: KMail Still Broken?
by Lee on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @03:30

I was worried about IMAP support at first too; it looked VERY flaky, and I was disappointed to see that dIMAP was no better. BUT, I tried it a bit later, and worked at it a bit, and it's been fine now for a LONG time. I've been using it as my only mail client (and purely IMAP) for... as long as I can remember basically, using it MANY times a day, with many folders, some of which have thousands of mails, and many big attachments, with only the rarest of hanging troubles. These are fixed by just running pkill on kmail and kio_imap. All in all, it's far better than the IMAP support in evolution, thunderbird, etc. I'd recommend giving it another go. I'm using courier-imap on the server, if it helps.

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Re: KMail Still Broken?
by Alistair John Strachan on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @15:23

As am I. Since the crashes occur on two PCs (different architectures, too) it seems unlikely that it's my toolchain. I'm fairly confident this bug exists, you've just been lucky.

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Re: KMail Still Broken?
by gnulinuxman on Saturday 05/Aug/2006, @13:45

I've been using KMail for a year and I still like it, even the current version. I haven't had any crashes, and it's super-fast--way faster than Thunderbird (ugh, that one is S-L-O-W).

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