On Monday 03 August 2009 23:46:30 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
POP and IMAP are two very different animals. AFAIK Kmail was designed as
a POP client and had IMAP added later. Every so often I take another
look at Kmail's IMAP support and get the impression it's still not quite
there, e.g. when reconnecting to a large folder it seemed to spend an
inordinate amount of time doing something (indexing? synching? cacheing?
no idea) before I could see any messages. Note that I don't mean the
first visit to the folder, which would be understandable, but every
visit.
I use cached imap on kmail with good results. It is fast and since the
messages are also stored locally it is quite fast.
The only precaution worth of note is not to subscribe the "All Mail" folder
for gmail accounts.
I haven't tried the latest version so maybe that's all
improved now, but
changing MUAs is something one tries not to do often, which is why I've
stuck with Evo despite its faults. I have to say I also find Kmail's UI
rather garish compared to Evo's, but that's personal taste.
There have been some improvements in this area. :-)
poc
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José Abílio