On Saturday 28 April 2018 19:17:04 dep wrote:
said deloptes:
|You need to be more explicit, there re, or were, 2 different versions
| of TDE, I jumped straight to R14.0.0.1 originally, and never looked
| back, currently at R14.0.5. So I don't recall the other version
| offered.
okay, let's take it from the top. i ran kde from the last beta before
kde 1.0, almost 20 years ago. beginning with 4.0, the kde project went
in my estimation all flaky, so i stuck with 3.5.x until i was happy to
learn of tde, which i have used since then in its verious versions. i
am currently running tde 14.0.5 atop ubuntu 14.04.
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i'm glad you have kmail working as you like. i do, too.
|What does this protonmail do that makes it so much more desirable?
it's not either/or. protonmail is a secure mail service, not a mail
client. you can learn about it if you like at
protonmail.com. thing
is, access to protonmail in linux is currently via a secure web
interface (or an unofficial desktop app that is really a secure
browser dedicated to protonmail). for windows and mac there is a thing
called protonmail bridge. it encrypts the mail on the local machine
before sending it, and decrypts it upon receipt, allowing more
traditional mail clients to send and receive mail through protonmail.
there is currently a beta, available only from protonmail, of the
bridge for linux. that is what i am trying to install, so i can
continue to use kmail, as i have for nearly two decades.
part of the reason for this is a change of the terms of use by my isp
a week ago, wherein they announced that they would be combing through
my email, pictures, and everything else in search of things useful to
them. as a reporter and photographer for a living, i found this
unacceptable. hence protonmail and hence my desire to make it work
with kmail.
That, to borrow a phrase from a long time friend named JoAnn Dow, sucks
dead toads thru soda straws.
There is no competing ISP available in your neck of the woods? And do
those posts normally subjectable to copyright carry the notice that they
are?
After a round with yahoo years ago, I have 2 separate sigs, one of which
carries a copyright notice. That I've found does not seem to be capable
of being made an auto-include in kmail, so I don't use it very often.
One can never tell when the equ of a restarant napkin scribble is
submitted and gains a patent. Nearly 20 years ago (I am a retired Chief
Engineer for radio and tv, mostly tv) we all got a letter from a patent
troll announcing he had patented the then current EBS system and would
we please forward an outrageous fee for patent infringement since it had
gone live 20 years prior. I composed a letter in response intended to
apply to them and to the FCC informing everybody that we had no
intentions of paying his ransom as long as it was a system wide
government agency mandate. Its my understanding the commission members
each got at least one such message from every tv and radio broadcaster
in the country. And it still took the commission over a year to get
that patent invalidated. Haven't heard a word since, but we all kept
getting even more demanding letters from those jerks until then.
I was relatively polite in that I didn't say the best part of the patent
office personell that granted that patent had run down their mothers
leg. But I sure thought about it... Never have been one to suffer fools
gladly, and at 83, I'm pretty well fixed in that regard.
In any event, I hope you can find a solution that works.
dep
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