KDE 4.8.1 showstopper - for me at least

[O. Sinclair]

On 23/03/12 12:29, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 23/03/12 20:58, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> On 23/03/12 11:51, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:39, Myriam
>>> Schweingruber<myriam at kubuntu.org> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:27, O. Sinclair<o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> well well, on forums.kde.org a developer claims that this was
>>>>> deliberately
>>>>> removed to "complete transfer to Akonadi" but is back in "trunk".
>>>>> But will
>>>>> not be back in main code until 4.9...
>>>>
>>>> Could you please provide a link to that forum thread? I can't find a
>>>> post stating it was deliberately removed so far.
>>>
>>> Nevermind, found it: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=215&t=100742
>>>
>>> /me wonders how they can ship that and then be astonished end-users
>>> complain...
>>>
>>> Regards, Myriam
>>>
>> You are not the only one Myriam...
>> http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=215&t=100742
>>
>> disabled - not removed. But effect for us users is the same
>
> As it is with all Linux distros, there are other options available.
>
> Unless you have a VERY particular reason to use kmail - which, in this
> case, is not working for you anyway - then why not use Thunderbird?
> Latest version out is v11.0.
>
> "Why keep doing it if it hurts?"
>
I find TB to be much less versatile (when KMail/Kontact works that is) 
so I prefer KMail/Kontact. I will simply stay on the current version (in 
my case 4.7.4) until this is fixed. What baffles me is how a version 
with this function (that I consider basic) disabled was released.