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KMail
© Copyright Darrell Anderson.
I spent several evenings learning about KMail. I like the general look and feel of the tool.
From the perspective of a single personal user, KMail seems to fit the bill for most people. However, I ran into a few quirks that I did not like and are preventing me from migrating.
- I can’t add color or everyday basic formatting to my message text. I am not necessarily talking about HTML formatting although that is a common method of providing formatting in mail clients. I want basic formatting. I have used Eudora for many years (another program with its share of quirks) and I now take basic formatting and text coloring for granted. I read a discussion about this and some of the old Linux die-hards seem to think that any email other than plain text is blasphemous. Thanks but no thanks, I am not going to insert asterisks and underscores when I want italics and bolding. Get a life people; simple formatting adds to the readability of any message. I speak with some experience, having provided technical writing services for many years.
- I noticed some of the additional tool bar buttons are faceless with no icons. So faceless, in fact, that I cannot even tell the button is there. Why do software developers create toolbar buttons with no icons?
- I maintain email for two other individuals. I cannot have that email mixed with my personal mail. Period. Nor do I want to risk confusing my personal default address with the default address used for the other individuals. Probably the number one reason I still use Eudora despite its quirks is that I can run multiple sessions of Eudora. I am a big supporter of the MDI (multiple document interface), but this is one exception for me. KMail provides for multiple accounts as well as multiple identities, but provides no way to run separate sessions. Eudora allows passing an argument in the startup command to use different INI files. I wish KMail did the same. I think I can devise a work-around by writing a batch script to overwrite my KMail configuration file, but the weakness with that idea is saving changes upon exiting. Although I probably could grudgingly adapt to no formatting in my messages (not!), this one issue alone keeps me from migrating to KMail.
- Related to the previous problem, I need to maintain separate address books. I do not want my personal address book mingled with the address books of the other individuals.
Finis.
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