Bug#321102: kmail without dimap
Am 19.01.2007 16:37 schrieb Helmut Toplitzer:
>> The popup will *only* kick-in when you have a DIMAP-(mail)-account.
>> Using regular IMAP with workgroup-functions enabled, does not produce
>> the popup.
>
> I'm using dimap with workgroup functions for 2 years now.
> Without problems. (It's easy if you know what NOT to do)
Yes, I agree. But that's also the problem. If you know what not to do,
then it might be possible to work with DIMAP without ever losing mails.
But looking at bugs.kde.org and searching for KMail bugs about mail loss
related to DIMAP reveals another truth: the users are not aware of those
bugs.
We could deliver KMail with DIMAP enabled, but then we'd have to make
sure that every user who's trying to create an DIMAP account is aware of
the risks. And by aware I mean that KMail must proactively provide this
information when trying to create such an account -- not just a file
hidden somewhere under /usr/share/doc. And every existing DIMAP user
should be at least once reminded that DIMAP is potentially unsafe for
production use.
But even if we could provide appropriate warnings, we'd still deliver
buggy and potentially harmful software in Debian stable...
I'd prefer to disable DIMAP completely -- better to cut down a single
feature than to expose our users to the risk of data loss. But that's
just my opinion and I'm not a KDE-maintainer.
Cheers,
Bastian
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Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de
Debian Developer venthur at debian org
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