Michael Scottaline wrote:
> I used to HATE that.
> Here's what I did:
> I don't let kmail check for my mail. I use kbiff.
> It does the checking. You can set it NOT to give you any visual notices (that
> little box is as annoying as kmail's), but to play a sound (I use the gong
> from StarOffice). When I hear the gong, I click on the little applet on the
> panel that kbiff sets up and it automagically launches or wakes kmail to
> download the mail. It's great!! It never gets in the way, just conveniently
> tells me when mail arrives on my server and lets me decide when to use kmail
> to actually fetch it. Give it a try.
That sounds like a pretty good idea - but makes getting my mail require
user input. And I get a LOT of mail :-\ I've never tried kbiff - might
try it just for the heck of it to see how it works.
