[kdepim-users] KMail and IMAP notifications

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008, 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 ;)

Yes, polling is inferior, but the current design doesn't allow listening 
to IMAP notifications. This will change with Akonadi, i.e. with KDE 4.2 
(or later).


Regards,
Ingo
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