On Friday 22 July 2005 17:15, James Pifer wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 01:27, Saurabh Siddharth wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using fedora 4. I need an application that can alert me whenever i > > get a mail(pop3). I tried usinf mail notification. But it doesnt seem to > > work. I need something like a pop-up whenever i get a new mail or maybe > > an icon in the taskbar(like thunderbird has in windows) or maybe some > > animation in the taskbar like there used to be in fedora 3( a jumping > > penguin etc) > > I see that i can configure mail-notification to run a command whenever a > > new mail arrives. but i dont know what command to give here so that i > > can get the desired alert. > > Can anyone speak to why applications such as these have problems with > notifications? I started a similar thread yesterday. I use Evolution and > have tried both gnome and kde. I can't get it to give any type of > notification. I had similar problems with Gaim when running gnome. > Switching to kde partially fixes that. To me this is one of those very > frustrating things about running 100% linux. > > Running a separate application in parallel does not appeal to me. I have > my email running all day and would prefer to keep it minimized until I > have a message or need to write one. > > Are there any links to general information about why notifications do > not work? > > Thanks, > James For Kmail (kde), go to "Settings-Accounts-(select account)-Other Actions-More Options", click the Show Message box. Since this is Pop3, you should have the check for mail set to some frequent setting. HTH, Tom -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA Iraq war: 1,771 US deaths and counting
