Re: [opensuse] Multiple accounts in KMail OR Integrating Thunderbird in Kontact
- From: G T Smith <grahamsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:17:07 +0100
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Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 01 October 2007 14:04, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
Hi List!
<snip>
I do strongly recommend moving away from Thunderbird. I really dislike
it by comparison to KMail. The only thing it does better is compose
formatted messages.
I think the decision of which e-Mail client to use depends to a large
extent of the functionality required, and the environments used. As a
stand alone mail client KMail is adequate... for a lot of other stuff it
is not...
Linux support for SyncML is frankly antidiluvean. Only Evolution and
Thunderbird have any support, the former by a third party command line
application, the second by a third party plug-in. KMail last time I
looked, seems to make use of the multisync based stuff which does not do
this terribly well if at all (and seems to be still targetting the Palm
OS which itself seems to be quietly drifting into the dustbin of
history, which is unfortunate for the fans of the OS).
As SyncML (in particular for synchronising with things like Blackberry
based services, handhelds, smartphones and other mobile devices) is
increasingly important in the commercial marketplace this is potentially
a major issue, If for any reason you require to synchronise with or
access a SyncML server KMail is not an option. (This is really part of a
more general flaw in the KDE environment, for personal use it does
provide an adequate set of communication management tools, but for more
commercial requirements they are not really good enough yet). Evolution,
if it can acquire a bit more stability has more potential in this area,
but is unfortunately is still a single platform application tool.
If you have to move between Windows and Linux environments at the moment
there is really only one choice in the open source world (if you want to
avoid webmail). At that is Thunderbird+extensions...There are other (in
some cases very good) clients that operate in both environments but they
have price tags..
Thanks a lot!
--
Sergey Mkrtchyan
Randall Schulz
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