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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: kpanel - mail indication
From:       "Russ Steffen" <rsteffen () ia ! net>
Date:       1997-09-15 12:50:46
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On 15-Sep-97 %N, Andy Thaller <andy@themaxx.rot.stusta.mhn.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Erez Doron wrote:
> 
> >   how is the idea of adding a mail icon on kpanel near the date/time,
> >   which will show if there is unread mail ? ( like in fvwm95)
> >   just need to check local /var/spool/mail/$USER .
> 
> IMHO, it'd be better to have it configurable for systems that don't use
> /var/spool/mail (e.g. thinking of qmail, here) or even be aware of the
> Maildir-format...

I'm wondering if KMail will support the maildir format, or at least be open
enough so that those of us who use maildir format mailboxes could add it. I'd
pretty much given up hope on that issue when I saw that KMail was using the
c-client library, but I see that dependancy was recently droped.

Russ
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