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I am a KDE user.
I notice that there is no kcheckgmail application which is a gmail notifier.
Checkgmail is in the official archlinux repository but i have reservation
installation it. It is reported to be memory or CPU intensive.
I would like to know which gmail notifier is my fellow archlinux users using?
Any comments?
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I'm not too sure of available offerings, but if you're into programming, you can write your own checker very easily - all you need to do is perform an HTTP GET request using any framework or language that provides support for HTTPS and authentication, and you can get a list of the first 10 unread emails.
You just GET this URL:
https://username:password@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atomAnd you'll get a piece of XML back. You can then either use an XML parser or hack your way through the response using regexes or substring manipulations.
On the more complex side, GMail supports both IMAP and POP3, so you could write an IMAP checker - I wrote one myself in PHP, it was under 100 lines (IIRC).
At any rate, you can then poke around for what KDE apps exist to provide alerts and notifications and tie your program into the alert program.
-dav7
Last edited by dav7 (2008-09-13 00:26:06)
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Perhaps it's redundant, but I use a conky email script and I also have the Gmail Manager extension installed in Firefox.
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