Kmail? (Was: Akonadi)

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

Paul Lemmons wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re:Kmail? (Was: Akonadi)
> From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>
> To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: 03/11/2009 02:09 PM
>>> <rant deleted>
>> ׁHave you any suggestions for replacements? There are at least four
>> outstanding KDE-PIM bugs that I must 'work around' at least once a
>> day. I forget why I discounted Evolution as a viable alternative, but
>> if you have other suggestions then I would like to hear them. Thanks.
> I have used Evolution and it suffers its own problems. I used it for 
> over a year with its connector to Exchange and it was just never 
> stable. I still go back a look every obnce in a while and it has not 
> improved much. I have setup an alias "kill-evo" that I used almost 
> daily to start it up clean and hope it stayed up.
>

Yep, but that's only an issue when using the Exchange Connector. In IMAP 
mode, Evolution's very solid--solid as Thunderbird, in my experience. 
I've converted quite a few (now former) MS LookOut users to Evolution, 
because "it looks just like Outlook!"


> I am currently using Thunderbird and am fairly happy with it. It's 
> lack of corporate integrated calendar is the one really painful 
> missing feature. I use it in both IMAP (To Exchange) and POP (cox, my 
> ISP) mode and both work well.

<snip>

> The real deal clincher, though, is that my colleges do not know that I 
> am not using Outlook, which is our corporate standard. I am able to 
> communicate seamlessly with the company without anybody saying "Why do 
> your emails always look funny". I have to work within the world that I 
> live and so far, T-Bird is letting me do it without having to bring up 
> Windows.

You're right, that is the deal clincher. But someday, you may run into a 
Microsoft shop like mine which turns off Exchange Server's IMAP 
interface and only allows either MAPI or WebDAV. This prevents use of 
wonderful clients like Thunderbird. You pretty much *have* to use 
Evolution/WebDAV in such situations...but it beats MS LookOut.


> While it may sound like I am a discontent, I am really a big KDE fan. 
> I am running 4.2.1 on Ibex and am looking forward to Jaunty. I like 
> KDE 4.2 and am excited about watching it mature. KDE's office and PIM, 
> however, have always been a frustration to me. The developers appear 
> operate on the principal that they are not in competition with MS. The 
> truth is, that is not the truth.
>

The truth, my fellow Free Software using friend, is that our competition 
is more than just Microsoft. It is the army of MCSE's who are scared to 
death for their jobs. That's why if it ain't Microsoft, then in their 
world, it just ain't, and if you actually bring up Linux, you sometimes 
get this:

http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/03/tempers-flare-as-recession-creeps-into.html

*That* is our toughest competition. That mindset.

--TP