Ok, so I was looking for a good FOSS desktop email client for my GPD MicroPC 2 running CachyOS.
I wanted something lighter than Thunderbird, and as I’m running KDE Plasma 6 I choose KMail.
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
After fiddling for 15 min I was still unable to connect to my IMAP server. It’s 2025 guys, any email client I cannot setup in less than a minute is dead and should not exists.
I’m not writing this because I feel entitled or important or because my time is so precious. I’m writing this because I’m a senior BSD/Linux sysadmin, with +20 years in the field of email servers / email admin & support. I’m very aware of «what’s going on» under the hood and still, I was unable to make it work. I can literally use openssl s_client
to connect to my server, where KMail fails hard.
Eventually I’ve installed Thunderbird, in less than 60 sec I got mail synching. The longest step was to retrieve IMAP password from Bitwarden.
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