Update to 4.11.1 Changed Kmail Settings

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Sep 23 17:38:22 UTC 2013


Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> None of your settings has been changed.  Notifications about new emails
> are now handled by a dedicated Akonadi agent instead of KMail, so your
> KMail notification settings is not used anymore. We have decided to enable
> the agent by default to better advertise this new feature.
> 
> The advantage of a dedicated notification agent is, that it can show
> notifications even when KMail is not running, you can configure to be
> notified only for certain folders (for instance for inbox, but not for
> mailing list folder) and the notifications are much nicer - when there's
> only one new email, the notification will show sender, subject and start
> of the text (and sender photo when available); when there are multiple new
> emails, the notifications is like "3 new emails in inbox, 1 new email in
> Fedora-KDE".

So Akonadi now takes it on itself to fetch mail from POP even when KMail is 
not running? So far, it had always been KMail which had triggered the POP 
fetch.

        Kevin Kofler



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