Does KMail2 work better in 12.04

Mark Fraser ubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk
Thu May 3 15:13:21 UTC 2012


On Thursday 03 May 2012 16:06:17 Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 May 2012 06:15:16 O. Sinclair wrote:
> > On 01/05/12 22:49, Anton wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I used KMail since I uses KDE (first Suse then Kubuntu).
> > > But starting with KMail2 in Kubuntu 11.10 I got
> > > to much problems and I switched to Thunderbird.
> > > 
> > > Now my question: does anybody still use KMail2 and if yes,
> > > does it work now in 12.04.
> > 
> > Note that something that does not work in KDEPIM 4.8.2 (the version in
> > 12.04) is autocompletion of mail addresses from contact/addressbooks
> > when you compose email. And as far as I have been able to try out the
> > same goes for Distribution Lists/ Groups.
> > 
> > According to what I have found out via forums and mailinglists the
> > function is disabled in 4.8.x and will return in 4.9 later this year.
> 
> I do hope KMail is better in 12.04 than it is in 11.10 as I've just about
> had enough of it and every day I find something else that isn't working
> correctly. Was getting concerned about the amount of disk access that it
> seemed to be doing so I tried iotop and at points it is over 1M/s on disk
> reads. Some days I wish I'd stayed with 11.04 and waited for it to become
> more stable.

It is more like 30M/s reading and that email took almost a minute to actually 
send!
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