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I've Mandriva 2006 official with KDE 3.4.2 installed on my computer
There is a little problem with Kmail. Every time it starts (or when I start the computer) there is the welcome mail (the one sent by welcome@mandriva.com) in my inbox. This mail should only be sent the very first time one opens the Kmail, not every time. It's really annoying. How can I get rid of it? Or can I at least set up a filter so I would stop getting it in my inbox and how?
Odd. I have two questions for you:
1. Have you tried deleting the email?
2. Have you been off to get the Mandriva updates? (Please search this site for "easy urpmi" for how to do this).
I don't know about filters, but I had the same 'problem' with Kmail ... also Kmail would 'crash', or shall I say, close completely from the Kicker. Everytime I reopend, there would be another email.
I had a friend try also and he had the same 'problem' but his preference was to use another emailer anyway.
Mandriva was not very stable on my system ... I now use Suse 10
To answer all of the above:
1) I've tried to set this filter but does not work. evrytime I open Kmail this bloody mail is in my inbox.
2) I delete this email every time. if I don't I get a second copy of it the next time i open Kmail.
3) My system is as updated as I can make it. With a little help of easy urpmi.
I've also tried to uninstall and reinstall. It doesn't help. This thing really annoys me.
Is there any other email client that would sit in my tray and retrieve my mail automaticaly. I couldn't make evolution to do that (couldn't get it to tray). What about Thunderbird?
I've just discovered where theese mails come from : /usr/share/mdk/mail !!!!
The files are in html and text, generated by "indexhtml" package. I tried to rename the french files (as I am in France), and at next start Kmail generated english welcome mail as default. I then also renamed english files, and that's a solution ! No more welcome mails !!!!!
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