Kmail in Kubuntu 20.04

[Kristian Rink]

Talking kmail and kontact, by the way: What's the status of that "Kube" 
project that seems to have been around but bit of "vaporware" ever 
since? Actually, I then and now fancy working with KDE again because 
ever since I loved the technological aspects behind KDE but have 
constantly been driven away due to some features not working or 
usability being next to unbearable. kmail, unfortunately, always has 
been top of the list of "problem candidates" about that in 1k small 
papercuts that drove me away from even considering it for day-to-day 
use, poor Google Mail / Google Apps for Enterprise support and 
dificulties getting it to work with O365 being just part of the problem. 
Kube, at first glance, seems to have the potential to get rid of many of 
these issues, but I'm unsure whether that will happen anytime soon... ;)

Best,

Kristian

Am 25.04.20 um 08:34 schrieb Valorie Zimmerman:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 6:54 AM Daniel Wrana <wrana at blauhaus.org 
> <mailto:wrana at blauhaus.org>> wrote:
>
>     Dear Kubuntu,
>     I wanted to move to Kubuntu 20.04, but then I saw in the Release
>     Notes that
>     Kmail and KDEPim are not installed by default any more. I use
>     these programs
>     since many years - dispite the problems with akonadi & co anybody
>     knows.
>     Of course I can install them from the repos, but I wonder why
>     Kubuntu is
>     "giving up" KDE PIM. And I wonder if I run into unsolved problems
>     when I
>     install them. I cannot find any hints on that decision or the
>     problems in the
>     web. Could anyone please explain what stands behind and what to
>     expect?
>     Kind Regards and many thanks for your work
>     Daniel
>
> Unfortunately, the latest Kontact release hit too late this cycle to 
> include it, although Rik got it packaged and tested before release. He 
> can't upload packages past the freezes though, unless some stringent 
> requirements are met.
>
> Because of the scheduled release date of PIM, your Kubuntu Council 
> decided to go with Thunderbird this cycle, with great regret. We 
> always prefer to include KDE software, however, our paramount duty to 
> our users is to give them the *best* software possible. And in this 
> case, the previous version of PIM simply was not the best.
>
> Valorie
>
>
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