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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: how to automate email checking?
From:       "TODD WITTER" <witter () wpr ! org>
Date:       2000-07-31 7:58:25
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Anyone consider using kbiff?  It runs in the background and checks 
my mail every 20 minutes.  If I want to read what it grabbed from 
my mailbox, I click on the icon and kmail is my default 
reader/sender.  It's pretty simple and it works for me.
Todd Witter
witter@wpr.org

On 29 Jul 00, at 20:17, Thomas Bleicher wrote:

> Jim Snyder wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I would like to automate my e-mail checking by having my K-Mail login
> > automatically to check my e-mail. Has anyone done this?
> > 
> > Is there a better program for doing this? I need for it to be able to dialup,
> > login, and check the mail and then hang up at a predetermined time interval.
> > 
> Well, I don't know about the kmail settings or the coming kmail
> features. I have a dial-up conection and I'm running fetchmail to
> get all my mails to my computer and procmail to distribute the
> mails to my account. I didn't set up any filters yet but this
> combination ist very flexible for sorting your mails into
> folders, rejecting spam etc. I *think* kmail can take over the
> procmail part as well.
> If you want to have it done ever x hours you should use cron and
> a script that includes wvdial, fetchmail and hang-up command. All
> your email-processing (procmail, kmail, whatever) would be done
> off-line.
> BTW can kmail be called in background just for checking the
> mailbox? 
> 
> Thomas
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Bleicher
> t.bleicher@tu-bs.de
> 
> Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!
> 
> 
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Todd Witter
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