CentOS - Jul 2016 - Re: KMail

Any hope of KMail (and Kontact) coming to CentOS-7?
What exactly is the problem?
KMail seems to work on other Linux OS's.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 14:44, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Any hope of KMail (and Kontact) coming to CentOS-7?
> What exactly is the problem?
> KMail seems to work on other Linux OS's.
Work? Keyword here is "seems".
[rant]
Since Kmail1 on KDE3 there is no really fully working
version that does not bork up your mail semi regulary.
And do not even get me started on that "akonadi" crap.
[/rant]

Burn me once, ....
Burn me twice, ...
....
But what do you call a program that destroys your mail
more often than once per year?
  I call that Krashmail / Trashmail.

YMMV, but my milage was very short each time I tried
since after KDE3.

Tried on openSUSE, Fedora, Kubuntu, on all it failed.

Text-only mailers like Mutt or Alpine for the win.

  - Yamaban.

On Sunday 24 July 2016 05:57:03 Yamaban wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 14:44, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Any hope of KMail (and Kontact) coming to CentOS-7?
> > What exactly is the problem?
> > KMail seems to work on other Linux OS's.
> 
> Work? Keyword here is "seems".
> [rant]
> Since Kmail1 on KDE3 there is no really fully working
> version that does not bork up your mail semi regulary.
> And do not even get me started on that "akonadi" crap.
> [/rant]
> 
> Burn me once, ....
> Burn me twice, ...
> ....
> But what do you call a program that destroys your mail
> more often than once per year?
>   I call that Krashmail / Trashmail.
> 
> YMMV, but my milage was very short each time I tried
> since after KDE3.
> 
> Tried on openSUSE, Fedora, Kubuntu, on all it failed.
> 
> Text-only mailers like Mutt or Alpine for the win.
> 
>   - Yamaban.
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Everyone has, and is entitled to, their own opinion. FWIW I'm still using 
kmail on CentOS 6 and I'm very happy with it. I too would like to see it on 
CentOS 7.

Jeff

Yamaban wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 14:44, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> KMail seems to work on other Linux OS's.
> Work? Keyword here is "seems".
> [rant]
> Since Kmail1 on KDE3 there is no really fully working
> version that does not bork up your mail semi regulary.
> But what do you call a program that destroys your mail
> more often than once per year?
I haven't found either of those problems on Fedora-24/KDE.
I have criticisms of KMail, but basically it works fine for me.

Actually I save email on my CentOS-7 home server,
and back it up (with BackupPC) every night,
so it would not be the end of the world if Fedora KMail
ate my email. But it doesn't.


-- 
Timothy Murphy  
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

On 07/24/2016 02:44 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Any hope of KMail (and Kontact) coming to CentOS-7?
> What exactly is the problem?
> KMail seems to work on other Linux OS's.
> 
You could try the kdepim package on rdieter's repo:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/rdieter/kde4/

Best regards,
M?rio