Op dinsdag 8 januari 2002 00:44, schreef Jason Boxman: > On Monday 07 January 2002 02:37 pm, Saadiq Rodgers-King wrote: > > Anyone have any luck setting up a mail notifier? I've been playing w/ > > korn for a few minutes but it just quietly refuses to work. No error > > messages. No debugging info. No nothing. It just does nothing. > > Anything I should know about it? > > > > I tried looking for kbiff as an alternative but it doesn't seem to be > > packaged in debian. Is that correct? Thanks for any insight. > > My Korn and Kbiff work, but neither do what I want. > > I liked it when OutLook would insert a tray icon when new mail arrived. It > made things easy. With Korn/Kbiff I would have to disable interval > checking in Kmail and check manually when either app notifies me I have > mail. That's an extra step that shouldn't exist.
use dcop to do so. if korn/kbiff let you execute a command when a mail arrives, execute: dcop kmail KMailIface checkMail and kmail wil check mail. > > I just leave kmail running all the time and check it periodically now. It > works okay. I decided I didn't want it beep everytime new mail arrives, > I'd perfer a visual cue, but none are available that are unintrusive while > I'm working. (That's why OutLook's tray icon worked so well.) > > > Saadiq
