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

[Claire Robinson]

On 21/11/12 19:02, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Anne

Have a look at claws-mail too.

Claire