[TriLUG] Configuring Kmail

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

After switching from Mandriva 2008.1 to Ubuntu 9.04, I'm suffering with Kmail 
1.11.2 using KDE 4.2.2. What a dog -- there's not one thing about this version 
that's better than my previous version, and a whole lot worse.

In order to get this kmail version to work for me at all, I need to make 3 
changes which I don't know how to do:

1) Enlarge the font in the message list
2) Get messages to sort by time arrived, not time sent
3) Get message->send_again to work consistently

The following are amplifications of the preceding three:

======= Enlarge the font in the message list =======
I've tried everything, starting with Settings->Configure_kmail->Fonts-
>Message_list and set to 14pt. No change. I set all the individual types of 
messages like new, unread, read and the like to 14, no change -- they're all 
still an unreadable 9 point. By the way, there's no problem changing the fonts 
of the folder list, or the message body -- just the message list.

I know somewhere there's a program to change the fonts of all KDE programs but 
forgot its name. I'll try that next if someone can tell me what that program's 
name is.

All suggestions to increase the font of the message list would be greatly 
appreciated.


======= Get messages to sort by time arrived, not time sent =======
Not a day goes by where I don't have to hunt down a new, unread message whose 
wrong date sorted somewhere amongst the thousands of messsages. By sorting by 
arrival time, I can eliminate that. But I find no way to change the sort to 
arrival time.

======= Get message->send_again to work consistently =======
Not much to say. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and I haven't been 
able to figure out the magic invocation that makes the difference.

Long term, I'm going to find a mail program that works with mbox, maildir, 
subfolders, is sane, and doesn't depend on KDE. But for the time being I'm 
stuck with Kmail, so I'd like to try to make it at least somewhat usable.

Thanks

SteveT