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I started using Mepis ~2006. I am looking forward to evaluating Mepis 12. A couple of years ago due to nvidia video card problems had to switch to Mint gnome. I am trying to switch back to KDE and am looking for the "best" email client to use with KDE. I do like Evolution, but am not sure it is practical with KDE. Things I would like:
1) ability to move/import Evolution data to client
2) integration of calendar with calendar on panel.
2) sync with Google calendar
3) sync with my old Palm (Mint 9 does this great, but I don't think anything in KDE, even Evolution, can. So this is probably unachievable.)
4) The ability to locate my email/PIM data on a data partition and access from more than one Linux install via linked folder(s). I did this a few years back, but I don't remember what client (Kontact?). A down side of Evolution is that I never figured out how to do this. This is important because it makes the transition period form one working install to another easier.

I have been out of the KDE loop since KDE 4, but I have seen negative things about the new Kontact. In a quick search of this forum I saw comments that might indicate Kontact/KMail is fixed. What is my best option? Thunderbird? Kontact? Zimbra Desktop? Something else?

I will post similar questions on forums of other distributions (I hope that is not bad form.) Thanks for your advice.

Try jpilot for this. It's in the repos (and the plug-ins).
Henry

Thanks, I will look into it. Early in KDE 4 it didn't work, but I will check it out.

Still doesn't work in KDE4, and never will as the developer has quit or something. But easy enough to run in a VM of M8, which is how I do it even with machines for work, such as my excellent Aceeca data collector handheld

face, palm synchronization is all but dead. it's an ancient platform that served us well.

you can check out funambol, https://www.forge.funambol.org/DomainHome.html

it's a sync solution for all sorts of mobile devices, sources, etc. they list palm clients, but how actively it's maintained i don't know.

Here is some information about how to set up jpilot in kde 4.4.5 (Linux Mint):
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=59839
Maybe you can get some ideas from it?
Sadly there are no packages for the kde4 version of kpilot in Debian squeeze.
Henry

I should have been more precise: jpilot works fine in KDE 4 as long as you want to sync nothing but jpilot's limited PIM apps.

But the "conduits" from other apps do not work in jpilot or kpilot.

Thanks Utopia! That looks quite interesting.

Are KMail and Kontact improved now? Are they reliable? Anyone using them?

Jerry, thanks for the suggestion. I don't know what is wrong, but I have not been able to get PalmDesktop to recognize my Treo in my Win 7 VirtualBox. I never used the Treo with Windows, so this is new territory. It may be a Win 7 issue since it is old for Win 7. I keep the Treo because I have several Greek and Hebrew texts on it that I use daily.

GoManutd, thanks for the thought. I don't have a data plan with the Palm so I cannot sync in the cloud.