Re: Bug#727800: kmail: KMail goes bonkers following Qt update
Hi,
This is in response to a discussion that started in#727800 [1], which is about
an upgrade problem.
On Sunday 14 December 2014 21:35:45 Diane Trout wrote (and I edited slightly):
>
> I haven't figured out how to reproduce the other kmail bugs.
>
I am currently experiencing a quite severe case of #760707[2]: No mail gets
sent until I restart Akonadi (you may note that this message's delivery times
are somewhat removed from its "sent" time). If there's any info I can
reasonably provide, I'll be happy to.
But that's a characteristic of KMail2 bugs: You don't get good reports with
easy reproducibility, because (I think) the root cause is extreme sensitivity
to anything being slightly off in the environment; and go figure which
combination of factors, exactly, causes which undesired behavior.
> On Monday, December 15, 2014 01:21:18 Shai Berger wrote:
> >
> > A little off-topic, w.r.t. a comment Lisandro made earlier -- I understand
> > that not shipping Akonadi is not an option. Would you say the same about
> > KMail2?
> >
> And yes, one of KDE's design choices is that everything is integrated, so
> not shipping kmail2 would be very difficult if not impossible.
>
That's a pity; I don't think KMail2, in anything resembling its current state,
belongs in Debian Stable.
> You might also want to check out the current versions of evolution or
> thunderbird. Both are also quite decent mail clients.
>
I used to think such comments in KDE-dedicated forums were unhelpful. I don't
think so anymore. Now I find them helpful for people who want to stay on KDE
and have a functional mail client.
For the record, Evolution has horrible BiDi bugs that have been left
unresolved for years. Its behavior is actually worse (less predictable) than
just decreeing that everything is always left-to-right. I'm a Hebrew user.
Thunderbird is generally workable, but likes HTML a little too much for my
tastes (this, to a degree, is also true of KMail2).
I will be looking at Claws soon.
Thanks,
Shai.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727800
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760707
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