Updated post on my website!
Move Email Archives to a New Account
Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Vivaldi and Outlook can move messages from one IMAP account to another. Just drag and drop! But Gmail makes it a bit more complicated.
@rl_dane
I've been using #KMail for years, but as part of the larger #Kontact app (which gives you Outlook like functionality (contacts, calendar & more)). The interface has not changed over the years.
The idea of identities been different to the accounts allows you to (for example) separate work and personal. For example with each identity you can set up a different signature, and which email address / SMTP server it uses. However the setup for this does need work and is initially confusing for new users.
Note I recently tried #Thunderbird and hated it - I use keyboard short-cuts and TB's were browser-based and not email based (eg CTRL-R / CTRL-U for mark read / unread). I found no way of changing them while being #KDE, that is always an option in #Kmail.
Just curious, does anybody use #KDE #Kmail?
I'm just toying around with the idea of switching my work machine from Debian to KDE Neon to get super-up-to-date KDE programs, and I wonder how usable KMail would be as an alternative to #Thunderbird (which I still really like).
Yesterday I started the #mail #migration using #KMail #import tool and targeting #thunderbird profile folder.
Please note that I use Thunderbird since 15 years as my favorite mail client, and I used to have 5 or 6 accounts (plus my daugthers' accounts for school). So the amount of emails to migrate, even though I'm convinced that only the essential was left, was huge... ~92 GiB!!!
Now... I feel I need to reboot my #Debian, that looks a bit unstable after 1 full day spent crawling and indexing old emails... and then start Kmail... wish me good luck!
Migrating mail client from #thunderbird to #kmail
I have to say that kmail looks much more reactive, and I absolutely love the plain text rendering it does for HTML messages.
I just need to figure out how to move old mail archives.
Maybe I'm stupid, but I can't seem to get #KMail to work correctly. I have an IMAP server that pulls in mail from a couple outside hosts with `fetchmail`. It has a main inbox and several subfolders. I can get the subfolders to show up in KMail, but it refuses to download anything from the main inbox.
Any advice on how to make this work, or does KMail just not do that?
i'm not sure why but #KMail doesn't show me any items from my inbox, just stuff in folders 
back to thunderbird... 
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Scelte adottate per il #distacco dalle #bigtech cercando di mantenere l'obiettivo della #sovranitàdigitale e rimanendo nel #europeancontest:
- Client Posta: #kmail
- #crittografia dischi: #luks e #luks2
- Suite Office: @ONLYOFFICE
- backup: #freefilesync (sto cercando alternativa conforme ai miei obiettivi)
- Sistema Operativo: @manjarolinux
- dischi esterni: #segateradrive 4T e 5T
- caldav e cardav sync: @davx5app
- #Thunderbird #Betterbird
- calender reminders can‘t be turned off, not possible to modify entries (CalDav calendars) although I have full write access and can create new entries
- UI barely customizable: skins available only for older versions, haven‘t found a way to modify the toolbar to match my workflow
- #Kmail
- doesn‘t work at all. Added mail accounts and messages do not show up
- same goes with calendars via #caldav
My current #linux system in 06/2024:
Hardware: ThinkPad T480 with Intel i7 from 2018, dual internal batteries, 512 GB SSD, 32GB RAM and a #Nitrokey 3 as a hardware security token.
OS: #Fedora 40 
#KDE Edition 
Terminal: #Konsole
Terminal-prompt: Starship
Editor: Neovim 
dotfile Management: #chezmoi
Shell: #fish shell 
Synchronized shell history: #atuin
Container-Engine: #Podman 
Dev-Containers: #Distrobox (With #RHEL and #Arch Linux (btw))
Modern "ls" replacement: #eza
GPG/SSH-Keys: openpgp-card-ssh-agent and oct (https://codeberg.org/openpgp-card/)
Mail/PIM: #KMail/#KOrganizer
Notes: #KleverNotes
Mastodon Client: #Tokodon
File-Synchronization: #Nextcloud
Gaming: Steam 
, Bottles and ProtonUP-QT
Hi. Can somebody tell me how to get #LanguageTool to work in #KMail (off-line)?
