On Sunday 01 January 2012 11:31:48 am David Bernier wrote:
I think going from KDE3 to KDE4 was a "Big Switch". I see this from reading old Mandriva mailing lists and the like.
One sequence of keywords that came up is: "KDE 3 no longer maintained" (with or without quotes).
This is basically true, KDE 3 no longer maintained, but it has been forked and the replacement is Trinity (TDE), which is what this mailing list is about.
So my thinking is that getting a working Kmail for KDE3 might be possible, but harder than getting a copy of Kmail for KDE4, since KDE4 is the current supported & development platform for KDE ...
There is a temporary problem with some mirrors, making many files not available. When the problem is cleared Kmail should be available again for TDE.
OTOH, I hear that KDE4 is getting better all the time. I expect it will be perfectly usable about the time KDE 5 is released. :-)
Also, I understand that openSuse has a version of KDE3 that they are maintaining though I have not tried it.
Andy