Re: [tlug] Disabling "Expire Messages" Function in KMail

["Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley@example.com>]

On Friday February 6 2009 10:31, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>And who changes every year? Not me.

I don't either. In 2001 i evaluated Linux e-mail clients. I don't recall 
now which client i settled on, but once or twice per year it would 
crash in such a way that my mail got corrupted. I was always able to 
fix it and get everything back, but it would waste an hour or two of my 
time. So i think around 2003 or 2004 i switched to KMail and haven't 
had any problems since.

I don't really understand the purpose of the expire feature the original 
poster brought up. Of course i disabled it. I'm guessing someone who 
actually wants their e-mail client to automatically delete messages 
uses e-mail very differently from me or any of my coworkers or friends 
who all take a more archivist approach.

If i were to evaluate e-mail clients today, i'd probably give 
Thunderbird a closer look simply because it is cross platform and 
because i like Firefox. I'm not saying i'd choose it over KMail (or 
anything else), but since KMail is the only KDE application i use, if i 
were to stop using it i could save some RAM and disk space by not 
having all the KDE dependencies installed. (Of course RAM and hard 
drives are so cheap now that that argument doesn't mean as much as it 
did circa 5 years ago when i decided on KMail originally.)

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