Beta 8.10 released

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Monday 06 October 2008 10:16:18 Willy K. Hamra wrote:
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> Derek Broughton wrote:
> > p.daniels wrote:
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> >> I'm surprised at these replies. The biggest winner for me on KDE4 has =
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> been
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> >> Kontact, I find it much less crashy than on KDE3.=20
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> >=20
> > Glad to hear it - I have every intention of using KDE4 on Intrepid.  My=
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> > complaint has been that _no_ fixes to kde-pim have been applied in KDE3=
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>  for
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> > years, but that almost none of the ones I've been waiting for has been
> > fixed in KDE4.  That doesn't mean that I don't expect quite a few
> > improvements - I'd be so surprised if it's not greatly improved that I'=
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> d
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> > drop KDE completely.
> >=20
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> >> IMAP is still dog slow,=20
> >> but that's not new and I attribute at least half of it to Gmail's horr=
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> ible
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> >> IMAP implementation.
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> >=20
> > I'd attribute any problems _all_ to gmail.  I use IMAP to access a loca=
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> l
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> > server, and to access gmail, and for the local server it's perfectly
> > reasonable (though it's inherent in the IMAP spec that it's not going t=
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> o be
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> > blindingly fast on anything but the fattest pipe)
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> i use thunderbird to access my gmail using IMAP, and it's not slow at
> all! i used kontact when i first started using linux to access gmail
> using POP3, but didn't like the result too much. that was gmail's fault
> actually. but as for IMAP, i never used it kontact, but at the same
> time, never had any problem with it on hunderbird, so i can't see how it
> could be gmail's fault. :S

I use kontact in 4.1.2 for several email accounts includeing 5 IMAP accounts, 
3 of which are gmail. No problems so far. (for a long time)

Mike


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> Willy K. Hamra
> Manager of Hamra Information Systems
> Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
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