Bug 116311

Summary: kshowmail missing
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Martin "Matt" Wolf <matt>
Component: KDEAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 4   
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Hardware: All   
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Description Martin "Matt" Wolf 2005-09-10 04:34:06 UTC 
kshowmail is perfect for filtering out spam, especially for slow / non-ADSL 
connections. It downloads the mail headers only, saving time and bandwidth. 
The rpm of 3.1.1-pre3 which I did build before for 9.3 64 bit is working fine 
on 10 though. 
 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kshowmail 
"KShowmail is a POP3 mail checker for the KDE with these features: show 
number, size and more information about mails on pop3 servers in a list view, 
show the mail headers or complete mails, delete unwanted mail from server by 
configurable filters."
Comment 1 Dirk Mueller 2005-09-11 21:45:11 UTC 
did you ever use kmail? 
 
imho this is wontfix as it duplicates existing functionality.
Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2005-09-12 08:17:20 UTC 
in any case: we do not have the resources to do more KDE apps - but you're 
welcome to join openSUSE and supply your own packages.
Comment 3 Martin "Matt" Wolf 2005-09-12 21:10:40 UTC 
to comment #1: 
yes, I use kmail, every day, almost 24 h per day ;-) 
 
Please be aware that as a user of _both_ kmail and kshowmail I can see that 
kmail is including more and more functionality of kshowmail, but I still go 
through the inconvenience of setting up and using _both_ apps. Even if that 
means recompiling one of them. Simply because the efficiency and ease of use 
of getting unwanted spam out, especially the one which does not let itself 
categorize easily with rules, is still much higher with kshowmail. Especially 
when you are having a slow Internet connection. Plus it gives a good overview 
of the new mail, before it is distributed into different kmail folders, out of 
sight... 
 
So yes, functionality does overlap, but not duplicate, at least not yet, 
unfortunately. 
 
to comment #2:  
Ok, I'll look at that.
Comment 4 Dirk Mueller 2005-09-13 06:50:09 UTC 
I don't see how thats different to the POP filters kmail provides..