Comment 234 for bug 883459

(In reply to Tristan Miller from comment #202)
> Is this problem still reproducible in the latest version of KMail? There
> haven't been any comments on this bug in over a year; I'm wondering if
> that's because the problem has been fixed or because it has driven most of
> the user base away.

Driven away.

Was a KMail for what seems like forever (~2000?) (I've been a KDE user since it first came out in '96), but after dealing with workarounds and hacks for two+ years I eventually gave in and abandoned KMail back in mid-2017.

Took me multiple weeks to get all of my mail (~12GB) imported into Thunderbird, get my 200+ mail filters set up again, and to remove all of the duplicates and junk that various KMail bugs had done to my mail. Was the most painful thing I'd done in years, and I knew the switch was going to suck bad so I held out as long as I could.

KMail eventually just got unusable, period. I'd have to do workarounds and restart akonadi every single time I picked up my POP mail, which just made KMail effectively useless. After realizing I was using Alpine to read all of my new mail and delete junk _before_ fetching it into KMail, I finally gave in and switched.

LOVED KMail, but THIS bug led me to finally throw in the towel and give it up.