Kmail to mimic Gmail?

[John L Fjellstad]

"Donatas G." <dgvirtual at akl.lt> writes:

> Has anybody tried to use Kmail in a way to mimic Gmail, so that the
> mails would be displayed in conversation mode (I mean, not just the
> mailing list threads, but also the regular sent/received mail?) Is
> this possible, and what are the drawbacks?

Are you trying to use Kmail with Gmail or is this a general question of
making kmail behave like gmail?

I don't really use gmail much, and when I do I just keep it simple (only
read from the mail, don't use much functionality).

The the former however, I do the following:

Kmail setup:
Kmail stores everything by default in the Inbox (both sent and received
mail).
I only have 1 additional folder: archive (not exactly true, I do split
it up by decade under this folder, so I get a archive, archive.2000 etc)

Filtering:
I have a maildrop filter that add a header, X-Labels, to people/senders
I want to label.
I have a kmail filter that will add a X-Labels header to outgoing mail
to same people

Search Folders:
In Kmail, I create Search Folders based on X-Labels.
For instance, I can create a Search Folder that store all my emails
between my brother and I.  
This means that the same email can show up in multiple folders/labels.

This basically mimics the gmail setup (although not as easy to setup as
gmail).


For those who use mutt, you can do something similar, although you won't
have a nice search folder that you store.  Pretty much same effect
though, by using filter by label.

All this is based on work by Scott Yang(1) and Aristotle Pagaltzis(2)

(1) http://scott.yang.id.au/2006/08/organising-your-inbox/
(2) http://plasmasturm.org/log/344/

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