1. What is KOrn?
2. For whom is KOrn written?
3. From where do I get KOrn?
4. How do I set up KOrn?
5. Known bugs and limitations
6. Contact Info

1. What is KOrn?

   KOrn is a KDE-compliant X11 program that monitors UNIX mailbox files for incoming and unread messsages. It periodically scans each mailbox and displays the number of unread messages it contains in a small on-screen button. Features include:

   • Per-box scan frequency (poll time)
   • Horizontal or vertical layout of buttons
   • Per-box customization of commands to be executed on new mail notification and button click
   • Fairly simple dialog for setup and customization
   • Doesn't use Xt/Xaw. :-)

   For those who asked, it is named KOrn because 1. it begins with K, 2. there are too many KDE programs with serious-sounding functional names, 3. I attended a fabulous KoRn concert around the time 0.1 was written.

2. For whom is KOrn written

   People who are subscribed to several internet mailing lists and/or filter received email messages into separate folders (with procmail, for example). No need to run 10 xbiffs or qbiffs... just run one KOrn .

3. From where do I get KOrn?

   The latest version of KOrn is 0.3. It can be fetched from

   • The KDE FTP Site and mirrors, in /pub/kde/unstable/apps/network
   • From the author's FTP repository, at ftp://ftp.ph.unimelb.edu.au/pub/users/taj/kde/

   You will also require a computer running X11, UNIX and the KDE and Qt libraries. So far it has only been tested on Linux/x86 with XFree86.

4. How do I set up KOrn?

   Compiling and Installation instructions are generic to the KDE.

   To configure KOrn to your taste once it is installed, simply run KOrn (or type "korn" at the UNIX command line). You will be lead through a (hopefully) simple installation procedure.

   Field	Explanation
   Name	A short unique reference name for the box. Do not put commas in this name.
   Caption	The message to be displayed in the tooltip for the box.
   Path	The pathname of the mailbox to monitor
   Poll time	The interval, in seconds, between scans of this box. It is not wise to make this value much smaller than 20 seconds, since smaller intervals mean higher CPU usage.
   Notify Command	The shell command to be executed when new mail is received in this box. This is useful for playing sounds, for example.
   Click Command	The shell command to be executed when the button for the box is double clicked left-clicked when there is new mail

   Command-line --nomouse option: If KOrn is executed with the --nomouse option, it will ignore all mouse events. This is useful for running KOrn swallowed by KPanel or FVWM.

5. Known bugs and limitations
   • Old boxes are not removed from the configuration file when they are renamed. A duplicate box entry is created with the new name. This cannot be fixed till a method to remove groups in the KDE KConfig class.
   • Needs to restart completely to reload new configuration.
   • Lots of others.

6. Contact Info

   Author, Maintainer: Sirtaj Singh Kang, taj@kde.org, http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~ssk/.

Last updated: 12 June 1997