[kdepim-users] Getting Mails via command-line

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Fri Sep 12 21:25:02 BST 2008


On Friday 12 September 2008, Mike Arthur wrote:
> On Friday 12 September 2008 10:08:02 DennisMail at gmx.net wrote:
> > I sure it did oversee the function, but I can't find it: I am
> > connected to my PC via ssh and now, I am looking for the
> > possibility to tell kontact/kmail to fetch mails (like getting them
> > via the gui). Is there a way?
>
> dbus-send --session --type=method_call --dest=org.kde.kmail /kmail
> org.kde.kmail.kmail.checkMail
>
> That should do the trick, let me know if it doesn't!

This trick works for KMail 1.10.x (KDE 4.1.x).

The much simpler

  kmail --check

works for all versions of KMail.


Regards,
Ingo
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