I happened to have a log window open this morning as I established an internet connection with kinternet. To my surprise, I see fetchmail messages scrolling by almost immediately, with a poll.tcpip prefix on them. It did not fetch from all my accounts, only the two that I had set up while experimenting with kmail the other day. I did not ask for this automatic service, and I don't want it! I prefer to be fully in control of my limited bandwidth utilization, and issue the fetchmail command manually. Is there a way to define an ISP account to Kmail, and defer the actual fetching of the mail until I click the 'get mail' button? Or do I have to totally give up on Kmail, and continue to use pine? BTW - I think it's pretty lame and totally non-intuitive to have to go to YAST2 to define an ISP account for Kmail. YAST is a system administration tool, and ISP acounts are a personal, end-user preference. They don't belong together! -- Rick Green "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
On Monday 13 May 2002 14:23, Rick Green wrote:
I happened to have a log window open this morning as I established an internet connection with kinternet. To my surprise, I see fetchmail messages scrolling by almost immediately, with a poll.tcpip prefix on them. It did not fetch from all my accounts, only the two that I had set up while experimenting with kmail the other day. I did not ask for this automatic service, and I don't want it! I prefer to be fully in control of my limited bandwidth utilization, and issue the fetchmail command manually. Is there a way to define an ISP account to Kmail, and defer the actual fetching of the mail until I click the 'get mail' button? Or do I have to totally give up on Kmail, and continue to use pine?
BTW - I think it's pretty lame and totally non-intuitive to have to go to YAST2 to define an ISP account for Kmail. YAST is a system administration tool, and ISP acounts are a personal, end-user preference. They don't belong together!
Maybe I misunderstand, but if you are using KMail, and want to configure an account, click on Settings, Configure KMail, Network. Then click the Network tab. If you have an existing account, click the Modify button (Add to add a new account) and near the bottom of the window that pops up there is a check box for "Enable interval mail checking" It probably is checked/selected on the two new accounts you created. If you uncheck it, KMail will not poll your ISP for new mail until you click the Get Mail icon. If you have multiple mail accounts and you add them all to KMail you can even select which account KMail queries. a single click on the Get Mail button polls all accounts. If you click and hold, a small menu of the various accounts pops up and you can choose a specific account to get mail from. I never use YaST to set up mail accounts (in fact I never even noticed that you could setup Mail accounts in YaST)... dialup information for a specific ISP maybe, but... it's easier just to use the settings in the preferred mailtool (KMail, Evolution, Mutt etc.) to setup your POP3 stuff for your favorite ISP. C.
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Clayton Cornell
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Rick Green