Good evening from Osnabrück; Tom shares some facts from the day 1 with you, so all I have now (before putting my hand on svn commit) is some graphics. Recently (except for updating opensuse) I have switched from winnt5 to winnt6 on my notebook (thanks Adriaan!).

I need to admit I am regular user of Akregator under Vista now (which is -- repeat-after-me -- fully functional -- aKregator I mean, not Vista ). I am also slowly moving to KMail as well on the OS. The latter KDE app runs with POP3/SMTP/IMAP/SASL support offered out of the box.

Read on for the gfx...

The first KMail hacking day is coming to a close. It has been a fun time -- working with many oldtime PIMsters and several new contributors as well. I noticed that KOrganizer was getting a little attention too.

This weekend we PIMsters are having a virtual meeting on #kontact; hopefully to give a lot of love to KMail for a potential KDE 4.0 release. Most of the KDE PIM applications are in dire need of attention and, in their current state, have almost no hope of being part of a KDE 4.x release.

The geeko is hungry, so for the past few days Coolo and I have been feeding it the carcasses of many of the more serious bugs in KMail. Our focus has been on online IMAP, as that has had the most egregious bugs in our opinion, but we're also after low-hanging fruit anywhere else in KMail. We're basically doing it because We Care A Lot, but we also want some tangible improvements in KDE 3.5 in openSUSE 10.3, besides all the KDE 4 work we're doing at the moment. The fixes are all going into 3.5 branch, of course, and are being ported to the enterprise branch and 3.5.5+, so rest-of-world benefits too.

So if you are using 3.5 branch svn, please hammer on KMail, especially online IMAP, and report any crashes you see. I'll try and post a list of the bugs we've scalped so far later, but for now I need to take a break and clear my head.

Strange that there are still many people who care if a mailing list changes Reply-To header to point to the mailing list (usually called Reply-To munging) or not. Like if that matters ... I'm not even sure which mailing lists I'm subscribed to do or don't do that.

It's as simple as using the 'Reply to mailing list' action, which does just that, sends a reply to the mailing list. No need to do 'Reply to all', which has the annoying effect of sending one more copy also directly to some people (and the even more annoying effect of sometimes the mail from the mailing list being discarded because of the direct mail, depending on mail settings).

Or is Kontact/KMail the only mail client with such "advanced" technology?

KMail reaches over 100000 mails in a folder

Since a few days, I feel the lack of a summary mode in KMail.