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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: kmail questions
From:       Don Sanders <dsanders () cch ! com ! au>
Date:       2000-03-07 3:04:23
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Another possibility is to try out fetchmail
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/

You can use it in conjunction with KMail. It can be used to retrieve mail in
the background, at specified intervals. It is robust and shouldn't be confused
by server errors.

You can use fetchmail to retrieve your email from a pop server to a local
account and then set KMail up to use a local rather than pop3 account. I did
this for several months, it worked fine. (Now I use a developmental version of
KMail that that supports background downloading and when checking in the
background it doesn't pop up error dialogs).

(I guessing reg uses a pop3 account but this seems logical).

BFN,
Don.

On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, reg hughson wrote:
> > Two things:
> > 
> > I know it has been asked before but I cannot find it in the archives. Is there
> > a way to change the interval that kmail looks for new mail?
> > 
> No. Not with KDE1.x version of KMail. At least not yet. Don't rule
> ANYTHING out. These guys are GREAT! :-) However, KDE comes with a
> nifty little mail checking util called "KBiff." It'll check your
> mailbox how ever often you specify.
> >
> > And is there a way to get kmail to automatically 'click' on prompts? For
> > example, I usually leave kmail running if I am going to be away from home for a
> > period of time as the volume of email I get overloads the space my provider has
> > set aside for me and the end result is that a lot of mail gets lost. Sometimes,
> > kmail, when it can't download my email from the server for some reason, will
> > bring up a dialog box looking for input. While this dialog box is displayed,
> > obviously kmail will not check for email anymore so the end result is as if I
> > did not have kmail running at all. So, is there a way to get rid of these
> > dialog boxes temporarily ot have kmail auotmatically 'click' on them?
> > 
> Not AFAIK. 
> 	John
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