Re: No feedback when rceives imap mail

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Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote:

> I've got a little problem. At work they recently changed their email
> system for Office365. I did manage to setup an imap account in kmail, and
> this account works, BUT:
> 
> When I get a message there, I get no notification. While all other
> accounts get their messages in Inbox, or the relevent directory indicated
> there is mail, the imap account shows nothing, so if I don't think to look
> I may miss important messages.
> 

what notification? Do you mean the message is not downloaded automatically?
There you have to configure how often to check the mailbox

> I had found a workaround by setting up Thunderbird on a raspberry pi.
> Thunderbird autoconfigures for this account (of  course at work they did
> not give me the informations to connect, as we are supposed to be using
> MacOS or Windows with application that don't require these) and I
> forwarded the messages to my regular mail account. However Thunderbird is
> a nightmare when it comes to changing the password, and the work password
> must be changed every month... so for the time being Thunderbird no more
> forwards anything.
> 

Why not using the Web Client - firefox with push notifications?

> I'll take a look at Evolution for the pi, but it would actually be easier
> if I could just get informed that a mail arrived on the imap account.
> 

Don't  - Evolution s**ks

> Am I missing some setup, or is it normal that imap doesn't give any
> feedback (I normaly use pop for my accounts).

I've not seen any notifications (used always imap with kmail in kontact),
but recently I was looking at kdbusnotification (notification-daemon-tde)
and wanted to talk to the "gods" about it. This looks like a good small
project to exercise.

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