After a year or more of having kmail crash several times during a mail
reading session I finally have a program in 12.2 which appears to be
stable.
However, it refuses to download all mail. I am able to access mail in
several ways using: a Blackberry playbook; Thunderbird; a web browser by
accessing my internet provider’s website. Only kmail is set up to delete
messages on the server.
When I start my computer in the morning, kmail downloads mail received
overnight. Afterwards, it will not download mail. A possible reason is
that the playbook may have downloaded new messages between the two attempts
at downloading by kmail but I don’t know for sure. When I go to the
server’s website I find that the mail downloaded by the playbook is still
there in the inbox and is still marked as unread. I can fire up Thunderbird
and retrieve the messages that the playbook downloaded. Only kmail refuses
to download these messages.
Is this a feature of kmail or a bug?
I am about ready to give up on kmail except for two things: I read somewhere
that development of Thunderbird will cease in the not too distant future; I
don’t know of any EASY way to transfer messages from kmail to another email
program.
>
> I am about ready to give up on kmail except for two things: I read somewhere
> that development of Thunderbird will cease in the not too distant future; I
> don’t know of any EASY way to transfer messages from kmail to another email
> program.
>
>
> Suggestions anyone?
>
> Allan
>
via IMAP? - May also solve your download problems?
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:26:32 GMT, aemau <amau@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>After a year or more of having kmail crash several times during a mail
>reading session I finally have a program in 12.2 which appears to be
>stable.
>
>However, it refuses to download all mail. I am able to access mail in
>several ways using: a Blackberry playbook; Thunderbird; a web browser by
>accessing my internet provider’s website. Only kmail is set up to delete
>messages on the server.
>
>When I start my computer in the morning, kmail downloads mail received
>overnight. Afterwards, it will not download mail. A possible reason is
>that the playbook may have downloaded new messages between the two attempts
>at downloading by kmail but I don’t know for sure. When I go to the
>server’s website I find that the mail downloaded by the playbook is still
>there in the inbox and is still marked as unread. I can fire up Thunderbird
>and retrieve the messages that the playbook downloaded. Only kmail refuses
>to download these messages.
>
>Is this a feature of kmail or a bug?
>
>I am about ready to give up on kmail except for two things: I read somewhere
>that development of Thunderbird will cease in the not too distant future; I
>don’t know of any EASY way to transfer messages from kmail to another email
>program.
>
>
>Suggestions anyone?
>
>Allan
kmail (and maybe kmail2, which does twisted thing with akonadi for no good
reason) use pretty bog standard *nix ways of storing email (mbox or
maildir i think). Many other clients can read these. Though many are cli
or ncurses (no html).