[Users] Migrating from KMAil-1 (with mbox) to Claws-Mail

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Fri May 24 18:02:44 CEST 2013


On Fri May 24 11:00:30 AM Steve Litt wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2013 08:30:55 -0400
> Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:
> 
> > With mageia 1 reaching its end-of-life, I suppose there will be
> > others like me who held on as long as they could so as not to face
> > the (perceived) horrors of Kmail-2 and will migrate to Claws Mail.
> > 
> > The following is how I did the migration, in case it can help them.
> 
> Ron, there's no URL, and I want to read how you did it. Could you
> please give us the URL showing how you did the migration?
> 
> > 
> > Thank $DEITY it is over, and I can now look forward to upgrading my
> > OS without too much fear, and finally reach that holy grail of
> > getting rid of KDE now that I have removed the vendor-lock-in of
> > Kmail !
> 
> I hear ya brother! Getting rid of Kmail was my first and most
> challenging step in kicking all KDE apps and libraries off all my
> computers. No more 1.5 GB soprano-virtuoso.db files. No more rogue
> dbus-daemon or nepomuk instances using 99% of my CPU: No more nepomuk
> at all, and no more *misbehaved* dbus-daemon instances.
> 
> I hope the KDE developers have lots of fun forever adding more junk
> onto their Tinkertoy class project, but *I* won't be part of their
> audience.

Funny how different people's experience can be.  I have been so in love with my KDE desktop.  I consider it together with modern hardware the height of my 25 years of using windowed desktops. 



> 
> Thanks,
> 
> SteveT
> 
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