Re: thunderbird -> kmail

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Hi
>    I am considering shifting from thunderbird to kmail . I have tried 
> kmail but could not figure out couple of things. I am wondering if kmail 
> has support for the following things?
>
> 1) Reply to list support
>    In thunderbird, It is either Reply or Reply to All. Does kmail do a 
> better job in this regard or is it as lame as thunderbird?

I use version 1.5 (20051025) and you can reply to sender only, reply to 
newsgroup, reply to all. Lame allright. How would unlame be?


> 2) Using other editors
>    I would like to use vim or gvim to compose my emails. Currently 
> thunderbird does not have any facility to use a custom editor. Does 
> kmail have this feature?
>
> 3) Thread support
>    Is it possible to sort the messages by threads instead of date/sender 
> etc., This is possible in thunderbird. But I could not figure out how to 
> do this in kmail.
>
> 4) Spam and Junk mail control
>    Thunderbird has very good support in terms of spam filtering. It can 
> even adapt its spam filters as time goes on. How good is kmail in terms 
> of spam filtering? I am not planning to use spamassassin etc., I am 
> looking for in-built spam controls.
>
> Now before any one jumps in and says to use mutt, I am considering only 
> graphical clients and one which integrates well with other PIM stuff 
> like konqueror, kaddressbook, korganizer etc., So mutt is out of 
> question. I have only KDE and there is no gnome. So Evolution is out of 
> question.
>
> Using Debian KDE 3.5.2
>
> thanks
> raju