On Monday, September 27, 2010, Martin Kho wrote:

> Don't know if some one else is still fiddling with KMail 2, but

> I think it's a  lot better usable now. At least, it doesn't

> 'eat babies' anymore :-) I'm using KMail2 as part of KDE

> 4.5.1-2 (F15, rawhide), in 'IMAP-mode' (gmail). Of course

> there are some issues:

>

> 1. Notifications are rather paranoia. Notifications appear at

> random, telling  that there are new messages but there aren't.

> 2. Switching from one folder to another doesn't activate latest

> read message  in that folder.

> 3. Selecting a To: recipient from the contacts list doesn't

> show up in the To:  field of the New mail compose window.

Martin: I posted a number of issues some time back that I was having, and others that occurred when I tried to revert. I was finally able to figure it out and have successfully gone back. Before I did, what I was getting:

1) I didn't get the issue with notifications

2) I didn't have this problem either

3) I didn't try this one, so I can't say

What I did get was a lot of confusion regarding what was already downloaded mail, and what wasn't. Messages would get downloaded multiple times. Sometimes, they would get filtered into the appropriate folder, sometimes a duplicate would be downloaded and left in the inbox - (I was having to highlight new mail constantly, and do a 'Ctl-j' to run the filters manually, followed by going to each folder and running a 'Ctl-Shift-* to eliminate duplicates)- with over 40 folders, this got to be very tedious. Processing time started out terrible but seemed to improve with subsequent updates, but, the filtering/duplicate download problem never resolved - for now, I'm back to previous version, and KMail is working well again

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Claude Jones

Brunswick, MD, USA