KAddressBook & KMail Busted? Good Alternatives?

[Quantumstate]

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[blackpaw]

Re: KAddressBook & KMail Busted? Good Alternatives?

Anyway, is anyone using a quality email and contacts app? I need to be able to do email merges for a newsletter using the contacts, and hopefully it would be flanged into OpenOffice.

Yes Gnome apps can be run under KDE - I have run evolution myself, but my favourite mail app is Thunderbird. It has some very handy extensions, one I use a lot is KolabSync. Despite the name it doesn't require kolab what it does is store your Contacts on a nominated IMAP Folder, assuming you're using IMAP. I find it very handy to have centralised storage of my contacts. Its compatible with Kontacts Groupware mode too. I have several hundred contacts stored this way.

As regards email merges using the contacts - I'm afraid I can't help you there, never do it myself.

[rusty]

Re: KAddressBook & KMail Busted? Good Alternatives?

Hi,
I've also started using Kmail about a month ago after using thunderbird (which I loved but then switched to Kmail with HardyH as Kmail was the basic HardyH mail program) - and not having a good experience with Kmail.

I just wondered if Kmail in KDE4 will not be upgraded to such an extent that it will be much better - it is about one month away from now from KDE4

Can anyone come back on this?
rusty

[Qqmike]

Re: KAddressBook & KMail Busted? Good Alternatives?

Posts #22 & #23 are somewhat relevant here, or at least offer some reading from a reliable user (rbmorse):

http://forums.hardwareguys.com/ikonb...1;t=6555;st=20

[kjjjjshab]

Re: KAddressBook & KMail Busted? Good Alternatives?

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Thunderbird could not even import my legacy mbox files, much less export to them. So that's out.

These are such basic functions. How could they miss them?

Thunderbird really is just a basic Outlook Express replacement... I don't think the project's intent was ever (at least for now) to be a fully functional "enterprise" app... but since it is 1000x better than Outlook Express it has gathered quite a following...

[Jean]

Re: KAddressBook & KMail Busted? Good Alternatives?

Thunderbird has a stand alone util for importing stuff, I have used it.

http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html

I like thunderbird, it's the only client I know which quickly handles the tons of spam one gets.