[kdepim-users] KMail and IMAP notifications

[Kishore]

On Thursday 15 May 2008 00:31:19 Krzysztof Sobolewski wrote:
> Hi all!
> I'm almost ready to switch to KMail, but I have one gripe left to resolve
> (apart from maybe the most painful GPG/MIME setup ever imaginable).
>
> I set up an IMAP accound and I expect that it will send me a notification
> about new items in an INBOX, just the way it happens in my current client.
> But that doesn't work in KMail - I need to open the folder to see the new
> message(s). I tried to find a setting to enable this, but found nothing.
>
> So, is this somewhere I can't find or is this a genuine missing feature? I
> can live with polling for new messages, but that's... let's say it's very
> inferior ;)

Effecvtively it works the same way since the polling is automatic and the 
interval can be configured. You are then notified when new mail has arrived. 
The disadvantage is the heavier bandwidth use and load on the server/client.

Looking forward to akonadi!
-- 
Cheers!
Kishore
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