Bug#973567: kmail cannot create Exchange EWS sending account without kmailtransport-akonadi package installed
Package: kmail
Version: 4:20.08.2-3
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: brendon@quantumfurball.net
Dear Maintainer,
My organization recently migrated to Exchange for email service (oh joy). Long
story short, a kmail user can't create a EWS sending account until they
install
kmailtransport-akonadi - otherwise kmail simply does not list EWS as an
option.
Nothing depends on this package, so an ordinary user will most likely not have
it installed. Nothing seems to mention this, it's certainly not obvious, and
caused me some headache to figure out why I could create a EWS receiving
account but not a sending one. (Eventually I found some kind person's forum
post mentioning the issue.)
I think it would help if the kmail package would recommend or at least suggest
kmailtransport-akonadi. Adding mention of this "sending EWS" use-case to the
kmailtransport-akonadi description might also be a good idea, to aid in user
discoverability.
Thanks for your efforts and for considering the suggestion.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (990, 'testing-debug'), (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-
debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental-debug'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii akonadi-server 4:20.08.2-2
ii kdepim-runtime 4:20.08.2-4
ii kio 5.74.0-2
ii libc6 2.31-4
ii libgcc-s1 10.2.0-15
ii libgpgmepp6 1.14.0-1+b1
ii libkf5akonadiagentbase5 [libkf5akonadiagentbase5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5akonadicontact5 [libkf5akonadicontact5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5akonadicore5abi2 [libkf5akonadicore5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5akonadimime5 [libkf5akonadimime5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5akonadisearch-bin 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5akonadisearch-plugins 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5akonadisearchdebug5 [libkf5akonadisearchdebug5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5akonadisearchpim5 [libkf5akonadisearchpim5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5akonadiwidgets5abi1 [libkf5akonadiwidgets5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5bookmarks5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5calendarcore5abi2 5:5.74.0-2
ii libkf5calendarutils5 [libkf5calendarutils5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5codecs5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5completion5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5configcore5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5configgui5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5configwidgets5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5contacts5 5:5.74.0-2
ii libkf5coreaddons5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5crash5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5dbusaddons5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5grantleetheme-plugins 20.08.2-2
ii libkf5gravatar5abi2 [libkf5gravatar5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5guiaddons5 5.74.0-3
ii libkf5i18n5 5.74.0-3
ii libkf5iconthemes5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5identitymanagement5 [libkf5identitymanagement5-20.08] 20.08.2-2
ii libkf5itemmodels5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5itemviews5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5jobwidgets5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5kcmutils5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5kiocore5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5kiofilewidgets5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5kiogui5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5kiowidgets5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5kontactinterface5 [libkf5kontactinterface5-20.08] 20.08.2-2
ii libkf5ksieveui5 [libkf5ksieveui5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5ldap5abi1 [libkf5ldap5-20.08] 20.08.2-2
ii libkf5libkdepim5 [libkf5libkdepim5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5libkleo5 [libkf5libkleo5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5mailcommon5abi2 [libkf5mailcommon5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5mailtransport5 [libkf5mailtransport5-20.08] 20.08.2-2
ii libkf5mailtransportakonadi5 [libkf5mailtransportakonadi5-20 20.08.2-2
ii libkf5messagecomposer5abi1 [libkf5messagecomposer5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5messagecore5abi1 [libkf5messagecore5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5messagelist5abi1 [libkf5messagelist5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5messageviewer5abi1 [libkf5messageviewer5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5mime5abi1 [libkf5mime5-20.08] 20.08.2-2
ii libkf5mimetreeparser5abi1 [libkf5mimetreeparser5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5notifications5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5notifyconfig5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5parts5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5pimcommon5abi2 [libkf5pimcommon5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5pimcommonakonadi5abi1 [libkf5pimcommonakonadi5-20.08] 4:
20.08.2-2
ii libkf5pimtextedit5abi2 [libkf5pimtextedit5-20.08] 20.08.2-2
ii libkf5service-bin 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5service5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5sonnetui5 5.74.0-3
ii libkf5templateparser5 [libkf5templateparser5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5textwidgets5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5tnef5 [libkf5tnef5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5wallet-bin 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5wallet5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5webengineviewer5abi1 [libkf5webengineviewer5-20.08] 4:20.08.2-2
ii libkf5widgetsaddons5 5.74.0-3
ii libkf5windowsystem5 5.74.0-2
ii libkf5xmlgui5 5.74.0-2
ii libqgpgme7 1.14.0-1+b1
ii libqt5core5a 5.14.2+dfsg-6
ii libqt5dbus5 5.14.2+dfsg-6
ii libqt5gui5 5.14.2+dfsg-6
ii libqt5network5 5.14.2+dfsg-6
ii libqt5webenginecore5
5.14.2+dfsg1-5
ii libqt5widgets5 5.14.2+dfsg-6
ii libqt5xml5 5.14.2+dfsg-6
ii libstdc++6 10.2.0-15
Versions of packages kmail recommends:
ii accountwizard 4:20.08.2-2
ii gnupg 2.2.20-1
ii kdepim-addons 20.08.2-2
ii kdepim-themeeditors 4:20.08.2-2
ii mbox-importer 4:20.08.2-2
ii pim-data-exporter 4:20.08.2-3
ii pim-sieve-editor 4:20.08.2-3
ii pinentry-gnome3 [pinentry-x11] 1.1.0-4
ii pinentry-qt [pinentry-x11] 1.1.0-4
Versions of packages kmail suggests:
pn clamav <none>
ii kaddressbook 4:20.08.2-3
ii kleopatra 4:20.08.2-2
ii procmail 3.22-26
pn spamassassin | bogofilter | spambayes | bsfilter | crm114 <none>
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