mail checker
Jasper Huijsmans
jasper at xfce.org
Sun Nov 7 18:26:00 CET 2004
Gerald Barre wrote:
> Le Sat, 06 Nov 2004 23:53:26 -0600
> LostSon <lostson at lostsonsvault.org> s'exprimait:
>
>
>>Hey
>
> Hi,
>
>
>> I have added the mail checker to my panel and added my pop3 account
>>like it said to in the forums via
>>
>>pop3://user:password at server
>>
>>and i dont seem to be getting anything at all. Also with the
>>properties of the mail checker for new mail command i am using the
>>aplay command to play a wav file when receiving new mail, but alas no
>>luck. It seems its not reading my pop 3 mailbox correctly. Anyone have
>>any ideas, thanks.
>>
>
> The mail checker works only for local maiboxes, try something like
> Gnubiff if you want to check on mail server.
>
> http://gnubiff.sourceforge.net/
>
For 4.2 it should support the above syntax for POP3.
It has been reported to work, but I have absolutely no idea why it
doesn't work in this case.
Jasper
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