[Leaplist] Configuring Kmail

[Dan Cherry]

> Hi all,
>
> After switching from Mandriva 2008.1 to Ubuntu 9.04, I'm suffering with
> Kmail 1.11.2 using KDE 4.2.2. What a dog -- there's not one thing about
> this version that's better than my previous version, and a whole lot worse.
>
You might want to step up to Kmail 1.11.4 and KDE 4.2.4 via the ppa 
repositories.
For me, this has been rock solid, no font issues, and no special config issues.  

I did have a problem with fonts with one of the earlier 4.x versions of kmail, 
but they were the result of upgrading kmail/kontact, and cleared up when I 
erased the config files.  YOu can make a quick test by logging out, come in 
through a terminal then rename or delete all of the kmailrc and kmail 
share/config folders.  Then see if it comes in clean.
(or wait a week + for 4.3 and roll the dice.)
 
> In order to get this kmail version to work for me at all, I need to make 3
> changes which I don't know how to do:
>
> 1) Enlarge the font in the message list
> 2) Get messages to sort by time arrived, not time sent
> 3) Get message->send_again to work consistently
>
> The following are amplifications of the preceding three:
>
> ======= Enlarge the font in the message list =======
> I've tried everything, starting with Settings->Configure_kmail->Fonts-
>
> >Message_list and set to 14pt. No change. I set all the individual types of
>
> messages like new, unread, read and the like to 14, no change -- they're
> all still an unreadable 9 point. By the way, there's no problem changing
> the fonts of the folder list, or the message body -- just the message list.
>
> I know somewhere there's a program to change the fonts of all KDE programs
> but forgot its name. I'll try that next if someone can tell me what that
> program's name is.
>
> All suggestions to increase the font of the message list would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
>
> ======= Get messages to sort by time arrived, not time sent =======
> Not a day goes by where I don't have to hunt down a new, unread message
> whose wrong date sorted somewhere amongst the thousands of messsages. By
> sorting by arrival time, I can eliminate that. But I find no way to change
> the sort to arrival time.
>
> ======= Get message->send_again to work consistently =======
> Not much to say. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and I haven't
> been able to figure out the magic invocation that makes the difference.
>
> Long term, I'm going to find a mail program that works with mbox, maildir,
> subfolders, is sane, and doesn't depend on KDE. But for the time being I'm
> stuck with Kmail, so I'd like to try to make it at least somewhat usable.
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT

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