[tde-users] Re: Outlook woes

said Thierry de Coulon via tde-users: | I don't like Outlook, unfortunately that's what my school uses. | For now I use Prospect Mail to acces this mail (and it does work | correctly, although the interface is terrible - seems to be a clone of | Outlook's). | | My global problem is that when they send a mail to my outlook address, I | don't know it. I had found a nice way to live with it, by redirecting | (forwarding) the mail from Outlook to kmail (I still have to use | Prospect Mail to send an answer because since they ativated two factor | authentication Outlook's smtp refuses me). | | Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, they have blocked redirection. | | Getting mail from Outlook from kmail fails (I guess because of two | factor authentication). | | I have not been able to imagine a way to make Prospect Mail tell me that | I received mail (and anyway it's not running all the time). | | I wanted to try Mailspring, but it wants to store my credentials in a | keyring, and although I have both gnome-keyring and libsecret installed | (courtesy of MX-Linux I suppose), Mailspring does not find them (and | mailspring --password-store= does not work, either with libsecret, | gnome-keyring or tdewalletmanager-trinity). | | So, as several of you recently praised the help offered by this mailing | list, maybe I am in luck and one of you has some advice to offer on the | subject? | | Would it be possible to start Prospect mail (cron job?) and get some | information about new incomming mails? Not directly on point, but it seems as if kmail doesn't always play nicely with others, particularly in its communications with the server. NOT to hijack your thread but to provide an illustration that might help pin down the issue, I'm using the ProtonMail Bridge with kmail for years. It largely worked as expected, but a year or so ago messages got intermittent in being marked as read at the server. I try to keep a local archive, in mbox format, and I move messages there when I've read them. Unless I've kept kmail open, next time I start kmail the whole wad gets downloaded all over again. Additionally, often though not always a downloaded email is accompanied by another apparent kmail, identical headers but empty. And it cannot be deleted directly, though if it is marked for deletion it is gone when I reopen kmail. This does not happen with, for instance, Thunderbird. Which suggests that kmail handles incoming mail in a fashion different from the way other mail clients do it. I do not know if the phenomenon is pertinent to what you're experiencing, but it might be a different symptom of the same disease. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/