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

[André Salaün]

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).

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A.Salaün