[ILUG] KDE KMail / Konqueror

[Niall O Broin]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:50:57PM +0100, David Golden wrote:

> Well, I just switched from Mozilla to KDE Konqueror and KMail
> as my browser/mail system of choice.   Konq and kmail are 
> _really_ good these days!

Inspired by this, I decided to have another look at kmail (I tried it a
while ago but gave up and went back to mutt because there were some
problems). So, I fired it up and it listed all the mailboxes in ~/Mail - so
far, so good. I opened one at random which just happened to have just one email
whose content was approximately this (yes, I get very boring email :-) )


Blah,
        Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

and lots more blah . . . .

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

and some more blah . . . .


In mutt, this displays just as above. In kmail, nothing under the first
dashed line is displayed. I've a notion that ---- in a row at the beginning
of a line sometimes has some special meaning though what, I can't recall,
and I can't find anything in the kmail configuration concerning this
"feature". I'm using SuSE 7.1 with kmail 1.1.99 and KDE 2.0.1.

What was under the line was an email complete with headers which I had cut
and pasted to send to someone else. This was apparently a Mime message (the
line 

This is a MIME-encapsulated message

is a dead giveaway)

and it seems that kmail is viewing this as two messages - at least, there
are two shown in the folder. The second has as subject the Subject line in
the cut and pasted mail and it has two attachments which are shown as icons,
no matter whether I have Iconic Attachments, Smart Attachments or Inlined
Attachments selected in the View menu. Clicking either of these attachments
opens some more of the email in a window, and one of these has itself an
attachment, which when clicked opens yet another window. However, even with
all these windows open, I still don't see what's after the second dashed line.

So, is kmail still not ready for prime time, or am I just sending the wrong
kind of email :-) ?


> It's also really cool the way you can script
> so much  of the KDE GUI through "dcop" - reminds me 
> of Applescript or Amiga ARexx + MUI.

Can you write executable dcops, just like executable Applescripts ? Sounds
like an interesting feature, once you have a fully working app. to script.
However, the wonder of Applescript is that it allows you to script in a non
CLI environment. Why would I go to the bother of scripting e.g. kmail when I
can more easily script any number of non GUI MTAs, using tools (e.g. Perl
and bash) with which I'm already familiar rather than dcop ?





Niall