Am Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2012 schrieb Felmon Davis: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > >> You mean it's a *known* bug?! > >> Do you have a bug report reference number, please? > >> > >> Re. Fetchmail, I was trying Trinity solely for KMail's freedom from > >> Akonadification, and I shall stay with KMail for the time being, though > >> - for the time being - not in Trinity. > > > > Oh, it's quite an old bug: > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127696 > > http://forum.mandriva.com/en/viewtopic.php?t=79231 > > > > as in my case, my email provider "updated" his software and I had to work > > around. > > > > Anyway, there are some other nice email clients around if you do not want > > to go the fetchmail road. > > I didn't think of 'fetchmail' as an email _client_. you don't use it > to read email, you use it to fetch email via pop or something. > > I thought the original suggestion then wasn't to _replace_ kmail with > fetchmail but to have kmail read the mail fetchmail has downloaded. > > perhaps I misunderstand. > > I have no idea if it would solve the problem - I haven't read the bug > report. > > gr�sse! > > F. Yes, I wanted to suggest that as a workaround one could use fetchmail to download the mails, procmail for local delvery and kmail for reading and writing. But some users have strong objections against a daemon fetching their mail, so maybe an other client gives a better feeling ... where one has to keep in mind that changing from maildir to mailbox format bears its own pitfalls like loosing any mail in one dark black moment ;-) Nik -- Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp Einnehmerstra�e 14 A-4810 Gmunden Tel.: +43 650 82 11 724 email: office@...