On Sunday 15 December 2019 13:31:56 deloptes wrote:

> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Thanks again deloptes, I do believe that was it. �Does the handbook
> > mention this? Theres a fairly long list that I've not collated over
> > the last 20 years. Most glaring is its inability to go get new mail
> > in the background, which caused me to offload that to
> > fetchmail-procmail and a chain of spam and viri catchers. All
> > synchronized by inotifywait. I used to yell at Ingo K. over some of
> > the more glaring ones till I figured our he was attempting to herd
> > cats. And wasn't that good at it. ;-)
>
> Glad to could have helped. I was going through the translations of
> TDEPIM and saw the string - connected this string to your issue, I
> thought this is it and located it in the config menu.
> I use KMail as primary mail client at home. I use it in Kontact. I
> have my old mail from university time in a maildir. Everything else is
> an IMAP. I think your process is complicated perhaps because of
> historic reasons and could be simplified. But this is my opinion. I
> like simple and clean solutions, because they are truly genius.
>
> regards

while I hate it when the composer is frozen while typing a reply, but 
kmail thinks its time to access my isp's mail server, locking up the 
composer for sometimes over a minute. Being on SS, I have only a 10 
megabit account, so big stuff takes a while.  So I used fetchmail and 
friends to take that out of kmail's job list by doing all that in the 
background.  And I think its creative too. kmail's composer freezes are 
a few milliseconds when it only pulls it from /var/mail. ;-)

Thank you deloptes.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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