Cecking Mail with KMail

Checking Mail With KMail

I’ve recently become a KDE convert - impressed enough with KDE-3 to move me from

my longtime desktop friend Gnome. While I use a combination of fetchmail,
procmail and pine for reading and filtering my email, KMail is a strong
contender in the email race. As you’d guess, it’s fully integrated into the KDE
desktop, ready for a quick setup and easy use.

There’s one drawback to KMail, though, in my opionion. That’s that it doesn’t
automatically check your email by default when the program is opened. As much
time as I spend talking about saving key and mouse strokes, you knew the
additional step to check your email after opening the program would be an
irritation to this Penguin. However, changing the problem is a quick and simple
configuration issue.

To force KMail to check your email when opened, right-click on the KMail icon in

your KDE panel. Select “Preferences” and the “Execute” tab. In the Execute
window, change the command line to read:

    kmail –check -caption “%c” %i %m

The addition of the –check option will force KMail to bring you your mail when
you open the program.

Fewer keystrokes make a happy geek, right?