Email Launch Button Question

GeneT · #1 (**permalink**) 12-28-2004, 09:30 AM

I just noticed this morning (actually, I may have known about this before but decided it wasn't important and pushed it on the backburner and forgot about it) the Email Launch button on the Acer Travelmate C111 looks like it is a "lightable" button. Meaning, it doesn't have the same chrome look the other buttons have but rather transparent.

So, my question is: Is the Email button supposed to light up when there is new mail? If so, does anyone know where I go on the system to configure it? I looked in the Launch Manager, but that is where you tell it which application to launch. As usual, the Acer website isn't very helpful unless it's buried somewhere.

It's nothing really important, but would definitely add to the Coolness Factor (tm) of the Tablet.

Have you gotten this to work on yours, LPH?

GeneT

LPH · #2 (**permalink**) 12-28-2004, 09:02 PM

GeneT,

You are right! The button is different but I've never played with it. Let me see what can I can find.

Update: Looked in the User's Guide and the email launch key is tied to an email checking application. Set this up using the Launch Manager --> Email Checking Setting. Oddly the documentation says that you cannot use hotmail but yahoo is fine.

Setup the application for my email on the server tabletquestions.com and immediately the email button started to flash. Very cool.

LPH · #3 (**permalink**) 12-28-2004, 11:23 PM

OK. I found a writeup on installing Linux distributions on the Acer.

Quote:

The extra buttons above the keyboard (including the mail button) supposedly can be gotten working using ACPI events.
Update 11/16/03: This LaunchKey driver (version 0.4.3-lhj) compiled with only a slight bit of trouble (the quoted string on line 300 needs to be on one line, the Makefile needs to be edited to point to the source code). The key events are reported, and the mail led can be turned on and off (it's green!).
The buttons around the screen just report standard keyboard events (watch them with xev), and so should be easy to map to something useful.

GeneT · #4 (**permalink**) 12-30-2004, 07:59 AM

LPH,

Thanks for the advice. It looks like the port is set to 110 so if you have a POP or SMTP server that uses a different port (like GMail uses 995) then it won't work...unless there's some way to change the default port in the Email Checking settings.

On another note, being as it can be accessed using a Linux version on the Tablet, it can probably be accessed using some API call in Windows. It won't necessarily help me as I'm not planning to write an email client any time soon, but it might come in handy to flash that button for something else.

GeneT

UAJB · #5 (**permalink**) 05-08-2005, 09:02 AM

Hi, I have a C113TCi and the eMail button doesn't work properly. It does not flash when new eMail is in the mailbox. I correctly configured the eMail Check program (part of the Launch Manager), and when clicking OK, it says that the connection to the mailserver was sucessful and - no matter if new email or not - the button illuminates (no flash) and stays this way independet from new mails or none.

Would be cool if anyone has a solution to this issue. The Launch Manager I'm using is version 1.2.9

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