On Sunday 01 January 2012 16:31:48 David Bernier wrote:
> I think going from KDE3 to KDE4 was a "Big Switch".  I see this from
> reading old Mandriva mailing lists and the like.

Which is why we are so grateful to Timothy and the other developers for 
Trinity.

> One sequence of keywords that came up is:
> "KDE 3  no longer maintained"  (with or without quotes).

It is not maintained by the "official" maintainers.  But it is maintained and 
developed by Trinity and maintained by openSUSE.

> So my thinking is that getting a working Kmail for KDE3 might
> be possible, but harder than getting a copy of Kmail for KDE4,
> since KDE4 is the current supported & development platform
> for KDE ...
>
> Any comments?

Yes - the above makes no sense at all in this context, and your thinking is in 
error.  The clue - a large one - is in the name of the list.  

It is easier at this precise moment because there has been a major problem 
with Trinity's mirrors.  But Timothy (with, I hope some help) is working hard 
and most of the mirrors are now up again.  Unfortunately squeeze/main is not 
yet up, and it obviously contains trinity-KMail. 

I was surprised not to find it because a) I was surprised that it hadn't been 
chosen for David's CD (tho' I can see why not), and even more surprised when 
I couldn't find it because my first impression was that all the mirrors were 
back up. I was wrong, but they will be soon.  We were told"not before January 
1st 2012"  and almost all of them are now back up again.

So I shall soon be able to have my KMail.  (Or rather my husband will - and I 
think he is quite pleased not to have to cross that bridge yet.)

I even wonder whether you are a troll.  This thread had referred frequently to 
Trinity and never to KDE3.  So where did you get the KDE3 from??

Lisi