[Mageia-dev] Not very important require about mail checker.

Wed Nov 21 23:36:44 CET 2012

Le Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:02:13 +0000
+Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> a écrit:
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+> On 21/11/2012 10:29, André Salaün wrote:
+> > Hello !
+> > 
+> > Is it possible to reintroduce gnubiff in Mageia 3. All mail 
+> > checkers (in mga 2) depend on a wm. In kde they don't check the 
+> > mail spooler, only kmail, gmail, thunderbird etc. Gnubiff is more 
+> > versatile.
+> > 
+> > If I am wrong excuse me ;-) (but tell me which mail checker is 
+> > running under every wm and able to check /var/spool/mail or 
+> > $HOME/xxxx in a mbox format).
+> > 
+> > Anyway  thank you for your job : Mageia 2 seems to be very stable.
+> > 
+> > 
+> KMail can certainly check /var/spool/mail, but you do have to tell it
+> to.  Create a new resource, of the type mbox, and point it to
+> /var/spool/mail.
+
+Of course  it can. 
+
+But I am not talking about mailers : only about mail checkers to warn
+if there is new mail in any mailbox (in spooler or in home directory and
+in various mailbox format).
+
+-- 
+A.Salaün
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