On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 15:52 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
What I tend to dislike about Kmail are trivia such as the user interface (it seems fussier than Evo for some reason) plus the IMAP supporthasin the past not been so good, though that may have changed.I have two main accounts in Kmail, both IMAP, and one Gmail IMAP. Kmail handles them quite well. I have never tried to set them up in Evo. I have a work-issued windows laptop on which I have put Thunderbird for personal mail. Kmail seems to handle Gmail IMAP better than Thunderbird. It seems to handle my other IMAP account, hosted by Verizon Business (a personal account that used to be a business account) the same as Kmail.
More to the point of the original post, I am going to assume that kmail handles Gmail IMAP much better than evo. The reason is that if you move other accounts over to your Gmail account, Gmail automatically tags the mail with the name of these accounts. If you access Gmail with IMAP, tags are presented as folders. As I mentioned before, kmail allows you to associate folders with a particular identity, so mail to arthur alexion com goes to a folder with the arthur alexion com default identity, so if I reply to it, the reply stays in that folder and it is sent with the correct identity. OTOH, as evo cannot associate folders with identities, I would have to remember to manually change the identity when replying, especially when replying to lists where subscription matters. -- Art Alexion MIS x3075
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