How to stop recurring "Welcome" email message in kmail?

Dan Lund situationalawareness at gmail.com
Wed Jun 7 09:30:35 MST 2006


Also something to note, gentoo does have win4lin support built into
it's portage tree.

On 6/7/06, Shawn Badger <sbadger at cskauto.com> wrote:
> I think they where trying to figure out which distribution you are
> using.
>
> Also have you looked in to wine for running those windows only apps?
>
>
> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 09:20 -0700, Josef Lowder wrote:
> > Thanks for responding, but switching distros is not really an option for me
> > as none of the three mentioned distros will work with Win4Lin (as far as I
> > know).  Neither will Mepis or Debian or most other often suggested distros.
> >
> > I use Linux 90% of the time and just need to be able to run Pagemaker
> > and Paint Shop Pro as tasks under Linux, and Mandriva is the only Linux
> > distro that I have been able to determine is viable to do that via Win4Lin.
> >
> > Everybody has their favorite distro, but I think Mandriva is much friendlier
> > and much more versatile than others I have seen, and I have had rock-solid
> > reliability with it for more than five years - this minor little annoying
> > nuisance notwithstanding.
> >
> > In any case, I suspect that this may be something that should be fixable
> > within Kmail, so I'm still hoping someone will be able to offer a more
> > practical remedy than throwing out the baby with the bath water. ;))
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > On Tuesday 06 June 2006 11:10 pm, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 06:10:27PM -0700, Josef Lowder wrote:
> > > > Every time I start Kmail, a "Welcome to Mandriva Linux" message appears
> > > > in my inbox.  I delete it each time, but it comes right back over and
> > > > over and over again.
> > > >
> > > > Any clues how to put a stop to this annoying nuisance?
> > >
> > > Ubuntu? FC5? Gentoo?
> >
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