[OT?] Easy-to-use archiving mail in kontact?

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Thursday 13 July 2006 11:38, T. Ribbrock wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:23:27AM +0200, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > - The new path should make it much clearer that the mail storage
> > must not be accessed by any other applications than KMail.
>
> That's precisely what annoys me - I for example have mutt and KMail
> (proko2) running in parallel for more than a year now. Both of them
> are open all the time - and the only problem I ever encountered was
> that mutt didn't detect new mails because kmail got there first. No
> biggy. kmail will never reach the speed and ease-of-use mutt has, but
> I need it for its agenda functionality, hence the duo. But I'm the
> first to admit that I'm not a "standard user".
> Also, I never quite understood why each and every mail program
> seemingly needs its own format and own extension of mbox/mdir, making
> switching ever so difficult. But that's another discussion that
> doesn't belong here... ;-)

Well, we do use standard mbox and maildir, but with index files. And 
since we are lazy :-) we never made sure that KMail does cope well with 
other apps messing around with the contents of the folders. It's great 
that it seems to work for you.

Regards,
Ingo
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