(#moqdvoq) @abucci@anthony.buc.ci KMail is actually fairly good, it does basically all I need. Problems started when they introduced this Akonadi shit. This just calls for trouble every now and then. On my old machine the database even got corrupted irrepairably. Starting over with a maiden one I ended up with another broken state beyond repair a few weeks later. Still today Akonadi, must be kill-9-ed from time to time.

KDE 3.5 had the very best KMail versions ever. Very stable, no bugs I encountered (although the bug tracker was full of bug reports, too). With 4 and 5 lots of little issues got introduced that haven’t been there before and plenty are still unresolved today. I sent a couple of bug reports for KDE software, but never got any reactions. Once, six or seven years later a dude came back and asked whether a particular bug had been fixed in the meantime. By then I had long migrated off that program.

With KDE 5 I have to fake XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE or else with an i3 value, icons are not found in KDE programs anymore. Yeah. Also KMail’s message text pane does not have any borders around the header part when I start KMail (left). Opening the settings and closing the dialog with OK without changing anything fixes it. It then decorates the headers properly (right). No idea what’s going on there.

Also gave Thunderbird a shot a couple of times, but it never worked out for me. One major issue was the broken rendering of quotes when composing I think. And also a bunch of other things I don’t remember anymore.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Absolutely, HTML mails are an invention straight from hell! I even only send plain text mails at work as the only guy.