Mail watcher app

jt1122 · 2022-07-31 15:06:00

Hi,

I'm using the xfce4 mail watcher app but it's somewhat basic, e.g. there's a notification sound even when the mail count decreases (but no new mail), there's no popup notification with details of new emails and so on .

Any more sophisticated alternatives which work well with xfce?.

Thanks

agashamu · 2022-07-31 18:43:47

I've been using Mailnag for years now. Some distros still have it in their repository, some removed it, lots of info can be found online. Here is one of them: https://www.labsrc.com/automatic-webmai … -in-linux/
I love it because it's very simple, you get a popup and sound notification on new mails, no email client is needed such as Thunderbird. I believe it is not maintained anymore, but it still works just fine for me.

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jt1122 · 2022-08-05 10:55:57

Thanks.

jt1122 · 2022-08-06 09:10:09

mailnag has a notification plugin for xfce:
https://github.com/pulb/mailnag-messagingmenu-plugin

I've DL the source & compiled it but mailnag-config doesn't pickup the plugin.
Did you manage to get it installed?.

agashamu · 2022-08-06 18:24:22

No, I never did. I think Mailnag was really meant for Ubuntu-Gnome system which I never liked. I just simply accepted the way it worked in Xfce...I just needed a light app to notify new emails coming in and it does just that. I also noticed that coming back from "suspend" does not wake Mailnag up, you have to open it first then close it to make it work again. I contacted the dev (Ulbrich???) he was nice enough to respond, he told me that he does not maintain it anymore, and it was a "known bug". That plugin is not in the repositories anymore, probably because it does not work... I guess it used to be a very nice app 10 or so years ago, now we just get what we get. Maybe we should ask ToZ about it, he knows everything...
I also heard about Bubblemail, very similar to Mailnag, there is some (very little) info about it online. I looked into it once, it's written in Phyton, and seems way too difficult for me to deal with.
http://bubblemail.free.fr/

agashamu · 2022-08-06 19:54:19

I found this:
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=14070

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Mail watcher app

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