[TriLUG] What are other Kmail users doing?

[Steve Litt]

Hi Greg,

I'd REALLY like to thank you for this suggestion, which turned out to 
be THE turning point in my search for a new email client strategy. A 
few hours of work with Gmail IMAP got me to a point of understanding 
of what IMAP was, what it could do, and how various email clients 
interacted with it. It proved the IMAP concept.

Upon understanding IMAP, I installed Dovecot and worked with that. 
Over the next 2 weeks I'll research, test, and then convert, so that 
my emails are kept, Maildir style on a special partition mounted 
data=journal with a big honking journal, and are served out via my 
Dovecot IMAP to whatever client I feel like using that day.

My knowledge level, on the day you sent this email, was insufficient 
to set up Dovecot. But by following your suggestion about Gmail, I 
learned enough to A) prove to myself that the IMAP solution was 
workable, and B) to understand how to set up my own IMAP server on my 
own desktop computer.

A big thank you to you Greg, and to all the others on this list who 
helped me get out of my Kmail vendor lockin situation.
 
SteveT

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On Sunday, January 15, 2012 05:39:38 PM Greg Cox wrote:
> OK, I've not had exactly your situation, but what do you think
> about this:
> 
> 1) make a dummy gmail account
> 2) save all your local mail folders up to gmail
> 3) blow away local folders (OK, really, just set them aside so
> they're recoverable but out of the way)
> 4) Upgrade local OS
> 5) slurp all your folders back down locally, letting them be
> imported into the proper format.
> 
> I'd think this would let the power of IMAP work for you and make IT
> put things in the right format, instead of looking at it as a
> localized db migration problem.
> 
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Steve Litt 
<slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've been a relatively happy Kmail user since 2003. Yeah, it's
> > too big, too crashy, and it's part of KDE, but its features are
> > *exactly* what I need in a mail client.
> > 
> > I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 and cannot transition to Ubuntu 11.10 until I
> > figure out what to do about Kmail, because Ubuntu 11.10's Kmail
> > is Kmail2, which requires storing data in Akonadi, and is also
> > tied even more intimately than Kmail with nepomuk and D-Bus. If
> > I were a KDE enthusiast who used email as a part of his Personal
> > Information Manager (PIM), this would all be great news. But all
> > I want is an email client that can have many hierarchical
> > mailboxes, so all this stuff means nothing but more complication
> > and fragility to me.
> > 
> > Trouble is, with a hierarchy of over 100 mailboxes (one is for
> > TriLUG), some in mbox and some in maildir format, migration to
> > another client is difficult and probably requires heroic human
> > intervention.
> > 
> > For anyone else who is/has been in the situation I describe, what
> > did/are you doing?