Re: mail notifier success? (korn/kbiff)

[Jason Boxman <jasonb@edseek.com>]

On Monday 07 January 2002 02:37 pm, Saadiq Rodgers-King wrote:
> Anyone have any luck setting up a mail notifier?  I've been playing w/
> korn for a few minutes but it just quietly refuses to work.  No error
> messages.  No debugging info.  No nothing.  It just does nothing.
> Anything I should know about it?
>
> I tried looking for kbiff as an alternative but it doesn't seem to be
> packaged in debian.  Is that correct?  Thanks for any insight.

My Korn and Kbiff work, but neither do what I want.

I liked it when OutLook would insert a tray icon when new mail arrived.  It 
made things easy.  With Korn/Kbiff I would have to disable interval checking 
in Kmail and check manually when either app notifies me I have mail.  That's 
an extra step that shouldn't exist.

I just leave kmail running all the time and check it periodically now.  It 
works okay.  I decided I didn't want it beep everytime new mail arrives, I'd 
perfer a visual cue, but none are available that are unintrusive while I'm 
working.  (That's why OutLook's tray icon worked so well.)

> Saadiq