[tde-users] Re: How hard to make KMail multi-threaded?

On Wednesday 07 October 2020 11:24:30 Michael via tde-users wrote: I was given to understand a decade back by Ingo Kloker that it was going to be a major rewrite. So I did the next best thing. using fetchmail I took that job away from kmail by running as a daemon set to go get any email there might be at my ISP's mail server, and configured it to use procmail as the MTA. Then I learned to write recipes for procmail to get rid of the worst of the spammers, the wrote more recipes to filter incoming thru clamav, and ditto spamd so at least 75% of that crap goes to /dev/null. What survives that gauntlet gets dumped into /var/mail/name, and another scrip has launched inotifywait to watch that buffer location. Inotifywait exits with the name of the file and my script then uses dbus to send kmail a get the mail command. And relaunches inotifywait again. So the freeze is reduced to a few milliseconds while it gets that incoming mail and sorts it to the correct folder. Sounds a bit complex but it all Just Works. 2 mouse clicks to answer a message as I am doing now. Whats not to like? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>