Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: sending a "beep" from computer to mobile phone? Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 21:00:56 +0200 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <165e333641e556217ab4c0135ed9de7e@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net fIIsKWLagUm/8EMrILxZmAQM8pesw3mdeqPLgPwZNkRwiLIGdc Cancel-Lock: sha1:BA0eNojV4VHkC27i9aP7EKRxy7Q= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.8.0 Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37687 On 2023-03-28 19:07, Rich wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: >> I have that, but not disimilar from using gmail. Another client >> wastes battery (K9 did, which is why I don't have it checking for >> email except on demand). > > The newer K9's seem to have fixed that issue and no longer waste > battery doing a busy-loop looking for new emails. Or at least on my > phone K9 uses a "push notification" that does not waste battery. You > may want to give K9 another look to see if it might work for your > 'notification' needs. I do use K9, only that I disabled automatic checking for new email. I may try to enable the feature again. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.