On Saturday 28 April 2018 19:17:04 dep wrote: > said deloptes: > |You need to be more explicit, there re, or were, 2 different versions > | of TDE, I jumped straight to R14.0.0.1 originally, and never looked > | back, currently at R14.0.5. So I don't recall the other version > | offered. > > okay, let's take it from the top. i ran kde from the last beta before > kde 1.0, almost 20 years ago. beginning with 4.0, the kde project went > in my estimation all flaky, so i stuck with 3.5.x until i was happy to > learn of tde, which i have used since then in its verious versions. i > am currently running tde 14.0.5 atop ubuntu 14.04. > > [much deletia] > > i'm glad you have kmail working as you like. i do, too. > > |What does this protonmail do that makes it so much more desirable? > > it's not either/or. protonmail is a secure mail service, not a mail > client. you can learn about it if you like at protonmail.com. thing > is, access to protonmail in linux is currently via a secure web > interface (or an unofficial desktop app that is really a secure > browser dedicated to protonmail). for windows and mac there is a thing > called protonmail bridge. it encrypts the mail on the local machine > before sending it, and decrypts it upon receipt, allowing more > traditional mail clients to send and receive mail through protonmail. > there is currently a beta, available only from protonmail, of the > bridge for linux. that is what i am trying to install, so i can > continue to use kmail, as i have for nearly two decades. > > part of the reason for this is a change of the terms of use by my isp > a week ago, wherein they announced that they would be combing through > my email, pictures, and everything else in search of things useful to > them. as a reporter and photographer for a living, i found this > unacceptable. hence protonmail and hence my desire to make it work > with kmail. That, to borrow a phrase from a long time friend named JoAnn Dow, sucks dead toads thru soda straws. There is no competing ISP available in your neck of the woods? And do those posts normally subjectable to copyright carry the notice that they are? After a round with yahoo years ago, I have 2 separate sigs, one of which carries a copyright notice. That I've found does not seem to be capable of being made an auto-include in kmail, so I don't use it very often. One can never tell when the equ of a restarant napkin scribble is submitted and gains a patent. Nearly 20 years ago (I am a retired Chief Engineer for radio and tv, mostly tv) we all got a letter from a patent troll announcing he had patented the then current EBS system and would we please forward an outrageous fee for patent infringement since it had gone live 20 years prior. I composed a letter in response intended to apply to them and to the FCC informing everybody that we had no intentions of paying his ransom as long as it was a system wide government agency mandate. Its my understanding the commission members each got at least one such message from every tv and radio broadcaster in the country. And it still took the commission over a year to get that patent invalidated. Haven't heard a word since, but we all kept getting even more demanding letters from those jerks until then. I was relatively polite in that I didn't say the best part of the patent office personell that granted that patent had run down their mothers leg. But I sure thought about it... Never have been one to suffer fools gladly, and at 83, I'm pretty well fixed in that regard. In any event, I hope you can find a solution that works. > dep > > Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email. Because > privacy matters. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>