Hi Mike, > If I have a running kmail, then > > kmail --check > > will trigger mail checking. Is there anything similar when running > kontact? Use the dcop interface from KDE in your favourite shell dcop kmail KmailIface checkMail (works always) dcop kontact KmailIface checkMail (works only when kontact started kmail) ...or use the kdcop-browser to see all funtionalities. Hope this helps Pietz -- Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.