I always wanted a KDE mail client for my gmail accounts for the below two reasons.
1. Support for multiple accounts
2. Better search support, at least in the local folders
I tried Kmail, first time with POP3, and the experience was confusing. Later on, I came to know that when POP3 clients don't modify the status of the mail in the server. For example, the mails read with the POP3 client, will still be marked as 'unread' in the server when accessed by another client. After knowing this, I gave Kmail another try, but using IMAP this time. Connection via IMAP actually removed this confusion, but it was so slow and painful to use. As of that time, there were a lot of people saying that the Kontact suite (thus Kmail too) was not yet ready for production. That statement indicated that Kmail was going through some serious development and gave me some hope for the future.
Though I gave up using Kmail, I still wanted to try it again due to the above two advantages. Now that an improved version of the Kontact suite has been released along with KDE 4.6.4, I am awaiting these to make it to either debian unstable (sid) to give it another try. I am excited as the release announcement specifically says that the IMAP speed has been improved, the reason why I actually quit Kmail.
1. Support for multiple accounts
2. Better search support, at least in the local folders
I tried Kmail, first time with POP3, and the experience was confusing. Later on, I came to know that when POP3 clients don't modify the status of the mail in the server. For example, the mails read with the POP3 client, will still be marked as 'unread' in the server when accessed by another client. After knowing this, I gave Kmail another try, but using IMAP this time. Connection via IMAP actually removed this confusion, but it was so slow and painful to use. As of that time, there were a lot of people saying that the Kontact suite (thus Kmail too) was not yet ready for production. That statement indicated that Kmail was going through some serious development and gave me some hope for the future.
Though I gave up using Kmail, I still wanted to try it again due to the above two advantages. Now that an improved version of the Kontact suite has been released along with KDE 4.6.4, I am awaiting these to make it to either debian unstable (sid) to give it another try. I am excited as the release announcement specifically says that the IMAP speed has been improved, the reason why I actually quit Kmail.
Among the most noticable improvements are faster email notifications, vastly improved performance for IMAP email accounts, and ...Lets wait until it arrives.
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