On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 08:18, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 28 Feb 2003 2:11 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > On Thursday February 27 2003 07:07 pm, Michael Scottaline wrote:
> > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:06:09 -0500
> > >
> > > Daniel Axtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted:
> > > >Is there a simple way to be notified automatically notified of
> > > > incoming email?  I'm using kmail (by default), and tried to play
> > > > around with korn, which doesn't seem to do anything.  Is there an
> > > > easy way to do this?
> > >
> > > ===========================
> > > kbiff or gkrellm will do just what you want....
> > > Mike
> >
> >     Kmail 1.5, don't remember if earlier versions had this, but I
> > think they did (I've never used it).
> >
> >   Settings | Configure notifications, New mail arrived, there's
> > settings to play a sound, popup a mesg window, log to a file, etc.
> >
> >   But I doubt there's any use for this unless you also configure kmail
> > to check for mail at regular intervals.
> 
> Correct.  I have 'beep' set and automatic checking.  Works well when I'm in 
> the room, and I just look anyway if I've been out for some time.
> 
> Anne

Not to take away from k-mail but evolution has this built in as well. 
Also for WindowMaker and gnome there are a number of doc-apps built that
do this.  iceWM has it built in and can connect to Mutt or Pine if you'd
like.

James



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