[ale] kmail 2

[Ron Frazier]

Hi Geoffrey,

I don't know how relevant this will be to your query if your friend is 
determined to stick with kmail.  However, if he'll consider other 
options, it might be useful.  I'm using Eudora Open Source Edition and 
like it.  It is based on the Thunderbird code base, but has the look and 
feel of the old Eudora program, which I had been using on Windows for 15 
years.  It seems to work pretty well.  The open source edition is at 
version 1 and has been for some time.  I don't know how actively they 
are developing it.  But, since it was based on the former commercial 
product, and since it was based on the mature Thunderbird code base, 
it's already a pretty mature and functional product.  You can do folders 
and subfolders and move things around.  It also has advanced filtering 
capabilities.   I'm on over 100 alternate energy mailing lists.  Can't 
read them all, I save the messages for reference.  Every few months, I 
will have accumulated about 30,000 messages in the mailing lists 
folder.  For some reason, the old commercial Eudora seemed to get 
unhappy if the total gets much above that.  So, I always transfer those 
messages to another folder which is not accumulating new ones.  I think 
this was a flaw in the old commercial product.  I don't know for sure if 
the new one has that problem.  It will only let you highlight and open 9 
messages at a time, presumably for speed reasons.  That process takes a 
couple of seconds to open the messages.  Once they're open, you could 
highlight and open another 9 if needed.  You can highlight dozens or 
hundreds or thousands of messages at a time a mark them read or change 
their priority if desired.  You can drag small quantities of messages to 
folders easy enough.  However, if you're working with more than 100 
messages or so, I would highlight them and right click and start the 
transfer from a menu.  If you try to drag large quantities of messages, 
it sometimes looks like the system is frozen.  You can also create 
multiple identities.  For example, the identity I'm sending this from 
has a custom return address and custom signature which is just for ALE.  
Overall, I really like the system.  Ubuntu used to come with Evolution 
email.  I used that for a while until I found Eudora OSE.  Evolution has 
similar capabilities, but perhaps not as many features, so I like Eudora 
better.  Evolution seemed to work OK however.  I'd be glad to answer any 
questions about Eudora if I can.  Eudora OSE stores each mailbox in a 
separate file, but I have no idea how it's speed compares to other email 
clients.

WARNING - Previously, another member on this list tried Eudora after we 
had discussed it.  He said it overwrites your Thunderbird profile 
directory if you already have Thunderbird installed.  Looking at that in 
hindsight, it's not a huge surprise since this is based on the 
Thunderbird code base.  At the time, though, it was frustrating.  So, 
backup your Thunderbird profile folder if you already have Thunderbird.  
In Linux, that should be .thunderbird (with a dot).  Not sure about the 
capitalization.  I believe this is a hidden folder in your home folder.  
In Windows Vista and up it should be 
C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Thunderbird\Profiles and 
C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles.  In this case, I 
have no idea why there are two of them.

Eudora OSE is cross platform, and can run on Linux, Windows, or Mac.  
Here are the links.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_OSE
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_Releases

Sincerely,

Ron


On 10/19/2011 8:15 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> I have a coworker who recently upgraded ubuntu to 11.10 and with it came
> kmail 2.  Apparently kmail 2 uses some type of database to store the
> email now?  He said the process took hours to complete.  Now, he's
> attempted to move some folders around and it does not work.  If he moves
> one, it appears to move to the right location, but when he moves a
> second one, the previous shows back up in the old location.
>
> Further, he said it is painfully slow.  Anyone else run into these
> issues?  Solutions?  Suggestions?
>
>    


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Ron Frazier

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