KMail and KWallet
I'm running Plasma desktop 5.27.5 on my Bookworm installation. I always install Thunderbird to do email because of KMail problems I had years ago.
Setting up and running Thunderbird was always easy and flawless. KMail, not so much. Since moving to my new 1TB SSD main drive I have been polishing Plasma by removing unwanted applications. I noticed that KMail was taking almost 300MB of disk space, probably more if I included Akonadi.
I checked with "sudo apt-cache rdepends kmail" and found that it was connected at the hip to Plasma:
$ sudo apt-cache rdepends kmail
[sudo] password for jerry:
kmail
Reverse Depends:
kde-standard
kdepim
kdepim-themeeditors
krusader
kontact
kipi-plugins
I used:
sudo dpkg -P --force-depends kmail
to remove kmail without tearing down the Plasma barn.
I was informed immediately that the next time I run dpkg or apt-get or Discover that kmail would be automatically installed again. So what's the point in removing it? I decided that I'd give KMail a try again after all these years. Setting up my IMAP email server was easy. I sent off a "test 1" email, which worked as it should. My Thunderbird informed me that I had mail. I clicked "Check Mail" in KMail and was asked for my ISP email password, which I gave. My test email never came down the chute. It's still setting on my ISP email server. Even though I saved my email password in KMail's account settings it kept asking me for it. I was also informed that if I wanted the password to be supplied automatically I'd have to start KWallet. I've always disabled KWallet and have never used it because it was a pile of ... the first and last time I tried it. But, being a glutton for punishment, I fired up KDE Wallet and checked the enable checkbox. It already had an entry titled mailtransportagent5 as an app that used KDE Wallet. I could not find a way to ad KMail to KDE Wallet, which is just as confusing, if not poorly designed, as it used to be.
I ended up stripping my configurations setting out of KMail and disabling KDE Wallet. Oh well, at least I've used only 117GB of my 931GB of available space.
Setting up and running Thunderbird was always easy and flawless. KMail, not so much. Since moving to my new 1TB SSD main drive I have been polishing Plasma by removing unwanted applications. I noticed that KMail was taking almost 300MB of disk space, probably more if I included Akonadi.
I checked with "sudo apt-cache rdepends kmail" and found that it was connected at the hip to Plasma:
$ sudo apt-cache rdepends kmail
[sudo] password for jerry:
kmail
Reverse Depends:
kde-standard
kdepim
kdepim-themeeditors
krusader
kontact
kipi-plugins
I used:
sudo dpkg -P --force-depends kmail
to remove kmail without tearing down the Plasma barn.
I was informed immediately that the next time I run dpkg or apt-get or Discover that kmail would be automatically installed again. So what's the point in removing it? I decided that I'd give KMail a try again after all these years. Setting up my IMAP email server was easy. I sent off a "test 1" email, which worked as it should. My Thunderbird informed me that I had mail. I clicked "Check Mail" in KMail and was asked for my ISP email password, which I gave. My test email never came down the chute. It's still setting on my ISP email server. Even though I saved my email password in KMail's account settings it kept asking me for it. I was also informed that if I wanted the password to be supplied automatically I'd have to start KWallet. I've always disabled KWallet and have never used it because it was a pile of ... the first and last time I tried it. But, being a glutton for punishment, I fired up KDE Wallet and checked the enable checkbox. It already had an entry titled mailtransportagent5 as an app that used KDE Wallet. I could not find a way to ad KMail to KDE Wallet, which is just as confusing, if not poorly designed, as it used to be.
I ended up stripping my configurations setting out of KMail and disabling KDE Wallet. Oh well, at least I've used only 117GB of my 931GB of available space.
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