About the Mail Check thing and evolution

Ted Sola ted at disturbedconfusion.com
Tue Dec 30 15:16:11 CET 2003


On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 11:05, Alexandre Aractingi wrote:
> Le mar 30/12/2003 à 03:41, john-thomas richards a écrit :
> > perhaps you could use fetchmail to get your mail and put it in
> > /var/spool/mail/ted and have the mail checker check this.  then, upon
> > opening evolution, you could have your mail filtered by evolution.
> 
> Hi Ted, Hi John-Thomas,
> 
> I also use Evo with XFce4 and wasn't able to be notified when a new mail
> arrived from a POP nor an IMAP account. From what I see only
> /var/spool/mail/alex is able to correctly report new mails.
> 
> So I use GKrellM to check Evo's mbox, which allows me to specify
> multiple mbox files and prints how many new mails I have in each of them
> when I move my mouse cursor upon it.
> [wouldn't it be nice if this feature was integrated to the XFce4's mail
> checker ? :-)))]

Yes Alexandre, it would be real nice :)




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