How do you check for new mail (notifiers etc.)?

Isengrin · 2009-12-12 03:22:07

The famous gmail.pl script to show new mail in Conky. I've set it to run every hour.

briest · 2009-12-12 17:01:38

wmbiff. WindowMaker applet, so can be probably used in fluxbox (and other *boxes?), AfterStep, or standalone with +w option. Gives me excellent info-to-space ratio, can check local (mailbox, maildir) and remote (pop, imap + SSL) mailboxes or use arbitrary command's output instead. In addition, action upon new mail receival and two 'clicked' ones may be defined for each mailbox separately. All I can ever need in 64x64 tile.

dylix · 2009-12-13 02:21:34

I've modified the conkyEmail.pl to play a sound and show a notification windows through python-notify when new mail arrives..

Chokkan · 2009-12-13 03:17:10

I use CheckGmail most of the time. I'm now trying the chrome extension too.

tomd123 · 2009-12-13 05:13:20

fetchmail + mail
can't go wrong with the classics

N30N · 2009-12-13 10:11:15

Currently using offlineimap and notmuch mail (which gets queried for unread mail and displayed by my WM).

kaivalagi · 2009-12-13 10:16:48

Conky with my conkyEmail python script to check POP/IMAP email servers of choice - as I only have a gmail account that matters to me now this is a bit overkill as I could use a very simple script...

I do all my mail through the browser now and don't bother with a traditional client, using chrome beta with "Google Mail Checker" extension is working well for me

kismet010 · 2009-12-19 18:48:03

echo "`sh /home/kismet/.scripts/gmail1.sh`"

to show new mails in dwm's bar

x0rg · 2009-12-19 21:52:18

opera's mail module. Opera is the best closed-source app I ever used....

dptkby · 2009-12-21 15:16:25

Thanks for the replies! I'll have a closer look once I get back to my regular Linux box.

There's a small program called Gmail Notifier Plus for Windows 7 that works perfectly for me; it sits in the task bar and when there's new mail in your Gmail inbox it shows the number of unread messages as an overlay over the icon. You can then open the mails in your browser via the jump list. Something like this, but with general IMAP support and the ability to open messages in a client of your choice might be the ultimate solution and I'm sure it's possible to put together something like it on Linux.

Last edited by dptkby (2009-12-21 17:43:36)

na12 · 2009-12-21 17:12:38

I am using espeak + some scripts for mail and updates.I put it in /etc/cron.hourly. I hear when I get mail, I don't have to look at the screen.

patogen · 2009-12-21 18:59:01

emesene has a nice feature for this. Does the job nicely.

some-guy94 · 2009-12-21 19:09:43

I go to gmail.com

gotmor · 2009-12-22 17:52:29

I use a combination of fetchmail and dzen:

More details:
Mail setup
Dzen setup

freek · 2009-12-23 22:48:04

Opera checks my mail and gmail every few minutes

llcawthorne · 2009-12-24 08:10:20

I just leave Thunderbird up on the second monitor. In case I am too focused though, I have a shell script that pulls the counts from my gmail address though, since I normally only get direct, semi-important mail there that I like to deal with ASAP, and it puts the number unread on that account on xmobar.

SantaSCSI · 2009-12-24 15:00:08

Thunderbird + firetray. The new Thunderbird 3 however makes firetray also show spam messages as unread. A bit difficult to see if you have new mails when firetray shows 314 "new mails" .

Lich · 2009-12-25 22:58:36

F5 or clicking the refresh button

Runiq · 2010-01-10 20:01:28

Mutt + offlineimap. Also, piping

ls ~/.mail/archlinux-us-account/INBOX/new | wc -l

into dzen, basically – with a bit of inotify magic so I don't have to poll everytime.

Edit: Thanks @gotmor. Your mail notification works a lot better than my crude attempt at scripting here…

Last edited by Runiq (2010-01-10 20:06:51)

yasen · 2010-01-10 22:18:56

My mobile phone carrier provides the 'email to SMS' service. They give you an email address like 'xxxxxxxxxx@carrier.net' where the xxxxxx is your mobile number. Mail sent to that gets sent as a SMS message to your mobile phone.

I've setup GMail to forward messages to that address. In the SMS I can see the sender's address, the subject and maybe the first sentence of the mail.
It's pretty cool, actually, but it forced me to unsubscribe from the Arch mailing list, as it spammed me with a million messages in the middle of the night...

onearm · 2010-01-11 08:36:41

Offlineimap in a cron job every 15 minutes for the couple of gmail accounts I got. Then it's mutt's job to let me see where there is new mail.

For the others, pop3 accounts, fetchmail.

Zeist · 2010-01-11 09:23:34

I use a little ruby script I found someone to poll for new e-mails in all of my mailboxes, I only modified it to poll multiple mailboxes.

kaptenen · 2010-01-21 13:13:05

I´m using a conkyscript that displays the numbers of new mails, then i go to gmail.com and check them, but i never receive some mails.

Krause · 2010-01-21 13:20:26

Fetchmail + Mutt, I manually check it a few times a day.

Ape · 2010-01-21 17:14:42

Thunderbird 3 and MinimizeToTray Plus add-on.

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