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Laserprinter at work is now not only available through IPX/Novell-crap but also via plain TCP/IP, especially via remote-CUPS. Together with the new fileserver running Samba 3 instead of Windows NT4 a main reason why I could switch to Linux on my Desktop *happy*

Because I think KDE is a really great desktop for using it at work, I set up KMail (together with ‘kontact’). IMAP-Setup was done in about 2 minutes – great. Setting up GPG-stuff worked fine with kgpg. Sending signed and encrypted mail to my private mailaccount (using mutt as a client) works. But: KMail can’t handle my MIME-GPG-stuff. Inline-GPG works of course. grml. According to this howto inline and MIME should work, but it does not. Even compiling the libs as mentioned in the howto did not help – grml. Any ideas except using mutt?

But what really sucks: I wanted to add the contacts from LDAP-server to my addressbook. LDAP-search, add entry. Ok. I had to send a mail to 5 people. First of all I couldn’t figure out how to create a group (send a mail to many persons with ‘a single click’) – huh? So I had to choose the 5 entries manuallly, then sent mail. But only 1 of the 4 persons received the mail – huh? So let’s have a look at the addressbook: KMail added a blank/space at the end of the e-mail addresses. Instead of using e.g. ‘<michael.prokop@tugraz.at>’ KMail stored ‘<michael.prokop@tugraz.at >’. Argl!

Just for checking out:

[mika@dufo: ~]% ldapsearch -x -b "OU=Bedienstete,O=tug" -h ldap.tugraz.at sn=prokop | cat -e | grep TUG
mail: michael.prokop@TUGraz.at$
[mika@dufo: ~]%

So it’s not the fault of the LDAP-server. And even if it would – why can’t KMail recognize (and then store) what’s a valid mailadress? grml.

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