Kmail in Kubuntu 20.04

[Cody Smith]

A beta build was released last year or a couple years ago. I haven't heard
anything since.

--c_smith

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:22 PM Kristian Rink <kawazu428 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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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