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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: kmail questions
From:       reg hughson <rhughson () home ! com>
Date:       2000-03-08 1:20:23
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thanks.
am going to try the fetchmail option.

On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, Don Sanders wrote:
> 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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