Is Kmail still being developed?

This question was posted on the KDE forum a few days ago and deserves an answer.

Yes, KMail is maintained, It even has a new maintainer since a few months. Laurent Montel now takes care of KMail2 and already made an awesome work.

So, what’s the state of KMail in KDE 4.7 ?

Since the 4.7.0 tag, 556 commits were made in kdepim/kmail.
But KMail is no longer a monolithic block, so let’s add:

• 207 commits in kdepim/mailcommon,
• 51 commits in kdepim/mailfilteragent.
• 98 commits in kdepim/messagecomposer,
• 43 commits in kdepim/messagecore,
• 54 commits in kdepim/messagelist,
• 153 commits in kdepim/messageviewer,

Still not convinced ? Let’s head to the KDE Bugs Tracker…

Since the creation of the KMail2 product, 690 bugs were marked as RESOLVED.

Amongst those:

• 11 bugs were marked as UPSTREAM (bug in one of the KDEPIM/KDE dependencies)
• 4 bugs were marked as DOWNSTREAM (distribution/packaging bug)
• 6 bugs were marked as WONTFIX
• 67 bugs were marked as INVALID
• 77 bugs were marked as WORKSFORME (the reporter cannot reproduce the issue)
• 178 bugs were marked as DUPLICATE (!!)
• 324 bugs were marked as FIXED

Still according to our bugs tracker,

• 14 bugs were explicitly marked as fixed in 4.7.2
• 24 bugs were explicitly marked as fixed in 4.7.3
• 24 bugs were explicitly marked as fixed in 4.7.4
• 15 bugs were explicitly marked as fixed in 4.8

KMail bugs closed since KDE 4.7.3 (only the reports explicitly marked as fixed-in 4.7.4 are listed):

• 143059 printing of mails ignores if part of the mail is blinded out
• 258117 Cannot create Mailing List filter via context menu
• 259422 Kmail ignores trash folder setting. It moves deleted emails to the local trash folder.
• 263587 BCC addresses shows bcc’s to “To:” recipient
• 278060 Mailing list detection does not work
• 280649 Kontact crash when closing
• 282652 Setting up filters for Distribution lists does not work
• 284789 Does not remember mail transport
• 285134 Closing the drop action popup by clicking somewhere else will execute a “move” operation instead of “cancel”
• 285508 subject line is always spell checked with default dictionary
• 285623 emails are not sent until restart of mail dispatcher agent
• 285653 Thousands of errors “Select Failed, server replied A000… NO Mailbox …
• 285814 Shortcut for moving mail to folder does not move to folder highlighted in dialog
• 285878 search mail – unusable sort by date
• 286505 kmail no more send mails
• 286615 Encrypted email not decrypted in-time for printing
• 286663 Kontact crashed when canceling creation of sieve script
• 286827 Unable to reply to an encapsulated message
• 286875 Redirected email is stored in wrong sent-folder
• 286889 Move Thread to Trash Context Menu
• 286922 edited mail from outbox deleted after closing
• 287367 Kmail is truncating recipients in “reply to all”
• 287696 redirected mail isn’t marked as redirected (or forwarded)
• 287779 Copy Email then Paste As Attachment does not work as expected