From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 31 04:27:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C49E16A4C1 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 04:27:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spam1.snu.ac.kr (spam2.snu.ac.kr [147.46.10.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7564843FD7 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 04:27:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lahaye@snu.ac.kr) Received: (snipe 20947 invoked by alias); 31 Aug 2003 11:51:29 -0000 Received: from lahaye@snu.ac.kr with Spamsniper2.0 (Processed in 0.012216 secs); Received: from unknown (HELO sis1.snu.ac.kr) (147.46.10.36) by 0 with SMTP; 31 Aug 2003 11:51:29 -0000 X-RCPTTO: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Received: from snu.ac.kr ([147.46.44.183]) by sis1.snu.ac.kr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7VBQQSZ303810 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:26:27 +0900 Message-ID: <3F51DB88.4030009@snu.ac.kr> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:27:04 +0900 From: Rob Lahaye Organization: Seoul National University - South Korea User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030726 X-Accept-Language: en-us, ko-kr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Mail notificator (iconized) for checking remote pop server ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 11:27:05 -0000 Hi, All my email arrives at a remote machine (RH 7.2 Linux box), from which I pop this email to my own FreeBSD PC. I'm searching a small application that notifies me by checking every few minutes the remote pop server for new mail. And it should do that while iconized (to get rid of all the window-manager's decoration around the window). My present solution does that, but is far too bulky for this purpose, since it needs full Netscape communicator running: Netscape communicator ("netscape -mail") is running on my own PC and iconized. It pops the remote mail server every 10 minutes. Note that Netscape communicator is the only application, as far as I, that changes its appearance on new email, when iconized! Is there another, much smaller, application that does this too? (The archaic xbiff, for example, does neither change its appearance when iconized, nor can check a remote pop server). Thanks, Rob.