Hi Folks,

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10. I've always preferred Kmail over Evolution and have used Kmail for a good number of years. (for one thing, KDE can forward e-mails to other e-mail addresses based on rules; that feature is really cool for having important e-mails forwarded to my mobile phone.)

After taking an extreme dislike to what the designers did to the net book interface in Ubuntu, I'm unlikely to move off 10.10 for some time, for fear of what they've done to it.

Anyway ... currently I'm on Kmail 1.13.5 which seems to be the one in the repository.

As of a short while ago, whenever I copy text out of the preview window, the text is surrounded by HTML code, even when the message is text. There doesn't seem to be anything in the FAQ about this, nor the archive, so I'm asking here.

Can anyone help me stop the HTML code being copied please?

Many thanks,

Michelle

This issue was fixed months ago. The fix is in kdepim 4.4.10 // Kmail 1.13.6

Thanks Krop,

The latest in the 10.10 repository is 4:4.4.9-0 so it looks like I'm stuck as I don't think they'll update it.

I'll try and get a package separately later.

Many thanks.

Yes thanks for answering - I was having the same issue as well

That was superb.

All I needed to do was add ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports in to my Ubuntu repository and it upgraded automatically.

Many thanks!

Hi, i'm a Kubuntu 10.04 (LTS) user
I don't want to add an unofficial repository 'cause in the past I had problems doing so.

So i'm stuck with kmail 1.13.5 kontact 4.4.8

this is a small but quite annoying problem
is there some kind of workaround to it?

nulll wrote:Hi, i'm a Kubuntu 10.04 (LTS) user
I don't want to add an unofficial repository 'cause in the past I had problems doing so.

So i'm stuck with kmail 1.13.5 kontact 4.4.8

this is a small but quite annoying problem
is there some kind of workaround to it?

backports is an "official repo", from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports

Backports is an official Ubuntu repository and maintained by knowledgeable Ubuntu developers who are often present on IRC and other communications media. But note that software in backports will not receive review or updates from the Ubuntu security team itself.

backports is an "official repo", from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports

Yes you are right!

But the repo suggested (ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports) is not just a backport, it's also a ppa (Personal Package Archives)
https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA

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Using a Personal Package Archive (PPA), you can distribute software and updates directly to Ubuntu users. Create your source package, upload it and Launchpad will build binaries and then host them in your own apt repository.

by the way, i'm a bit frightened of enabling official backports on a LTS, I don't want to make my system unstable...
I have only this micro problem with kmail... is there a workaround for it?

I've tried to install the single package of kontact 4.4.10
but i can't find the package from official backports
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid-backports/kde/
neither from kubuntu backports
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+arc ... d&batch=75

how can i upgrade this single program?

try the updates repo http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid-updates/kde/

nop!
kontacts version in the update repo is still with the bug

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kontact (4:4.4.8-0ubuntu0.0.1)
    KDE pim application

i need 4.4.4.10

While ppa's are technically unsupported, The Kubuntu devs use it to provide KDE updates. So while Canonical don't officially support them, the Kubuntu team itself does.

It's a distro issue not a KDE one - maybe it's time to update your Kubuntu

google01103 wrote:It's a distro issue not a KDE one - maybe it's time to update your Kubuntu

why are you sayng this? I was thinking that was a kontact bug...
By the way I can't upgrade my kubuntu, 'cause it's the pc of work... so i need it to be a LTS

claydoh wrote:While ppa's are technically unsupported, The Kubuntu devs use it to provide KDE updates. So while Canonical don't officially support them, the Kubuntu team itself does.

you are right.
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/KubuntuPPAs
tomorrow i'll try adding the kubuntu ppa... do you think the problem would be solved installing the update channel?
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ppa

i'm not feeling too confortable adding the kubuntu backports ppa, cause

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Backports of new major versions of KDE SC and major KDE apps for Kubuntu which are not yet tested enough to go to Ubuntu Backports.

it sounds to experimental to me!

nulll wrote:

google01103 wrote:It's a distro issue not a KDE one - maybe it's time to update your Kubuntu

why are you sayng this? I was thinking that was a kontact bug...
By the way I can't upgrade my kubuntu, 'cause it's the pc of work... so i need it to be a LTS

claydoh wrote:While ppa's are technically unsupported, The Kubuntu devs use it to provide KDE updates. So while Canonical don't officially support them, the Kubuntu team itself does.

you are right.
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/KubuntuPPAs
tomorrow i'll try adding the kubuntu ppa... do you think the problem would be solved installing the update channel?
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ppa

No, because there aren't any kmail/kdepim versions in them for 10.04 that are new enough to have the fix., unfortunately.

i'm not feeling too confortable adding the kubuntu backports ppa, cause

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Backports of new major versions of KDE SC and major KDE apps for Kubuntu which are not yet tested enough to go to Ubuntu Backports.

it sounds to experimental to me!

It is, relatively speaking. It is literally a backport of the KDE version from the next Kubuntu release, and is usually one major version higher - KDE 4.5.x for Lucid
I explained the diferent ppa's a while back. The descriptions are still valid today.

But it is a distro issue because fixes were made to KDE, which resulted in a new version of the software. Kubuntu/Ubuntu have a set of policies on software versions available for each release. Kubuntu either do not or cannot provide the most up-to-date KDE versions for every release they make, sometimes due to simple manpower issues (Kubuntu are mostly all volunteers) or to possible breakages - New KDE in older versions (LTS) would require newer Qt in many cases, which could break any non-KDE applications using that, for example.

10.04 may be LTS, and will receive security fixes mostly for it's life cycle, but 10.10 and 11.04 are in my experience and opinion far more stable and bug free than the LTS.