Interesting workflow.

Of course the fact that Nate uses Thunderbird instead of KMail explains a lot. One day I hope KMail/Akonadi get the attention/work they need to become viable options.

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    The deleting most emails is very interesting. In my personal email, I’ve been saved quite a few times by finding emails multiple years old. But I can definitely see how things would be quite different in a work email, and I may consider trying that myself.

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      Funnily enough, I cannot remember having to find emails older than a few days/weeks, so for work email, I could probably delete all emails older than 6 month or a year. OTOH, better safe than sorry. I only delete emails with big attachments and simply archive the rest.

      I’ll even save important emails in project folders, just in case and it is nice being able to have some emails right at hand w/o searching.

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        Not deleting, only archiving mail saved my ass when an employer tried to short me a few months, and I could just forward the “please start working now” mail to my lawyer.

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          Nice one, although I am sorry for your shitty experience with the employer. We should have a world wide open database about employers pulling this kind of shit!

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    It doesn’t sound like he’s doing anything fancy. Does KMail not have filtering rules?

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      KMail has filtering rules. IMHO the problem is more about stability and other known issues with KMail.

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    KMail is a great email application, the main issue I have with it, is the Akonadi backend. It’s really big and ressource heavy.

    Thunderbird just does the same thing, with less ressources. It’s also the main reason why I use Thunderbird instead of KMail.

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      Define great. ;-)

      KMail has multiple issues, which are known for a very long time. It might work for some people, but for me Evolution and Thunderbird work 100% OOTB with all my email accounts, which is and has not been true with KMail, not even speaking about KMail corrupting local email storage etc.

      If you look only at the comments under the linked article, multiple people expressed having problems with KMail…

      IMHO this is a really big problem: Most of my life depends on my email client working correctly and w/o a hitch: Reminders for appointments, communication for all purposes, important emails etc. KMail really ‘earned’ its bad reputation in the last years, which I am not happy about.

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        Seems our experiences are vastly different. Back when I used KMail I had no real issues. Never lost emails and it worked with all my account (I didn’t use Gmail at the time).

        I haven’t used it in a long while though, so my experiences are old. It doesn’t sound like it has improved since. :(