mail-notification: need alert popup or icon

[Alexander Apprich]

Saurabh Siddharth wrote:
>> Saurabh Siddharth wrote:
>>
>>  > Hi,
>>  > I am using fedora 4. I need an application that can alert me whenever
>>  > i get a mail(pop3). I tried usinf mail notification. But it doesnt
>>  > seem to work. I need something like a pop-up whenever i get a new mail
>>  > or maybe an icon in the taskbar(like thunderbird has in windows) or
>>  > maybe some animation in the taskbar like there used to be in fedora 3(
>>  > a jumping penguin etc)
>>  > I see that i can configure mail-notification to run a command whenever
>>  > a new mail arrives. but i dont know what command to give here so that
>>  > i can get the desired alert.
>>  > thanks
>>  > sid
>>  >
>> If you're using KDE as your desktop environment then:
>> http://kde-apps.org/index.php?xcontentmode=231
>>
> 
> I use gnome...is there an equivalent command for gnome??
> 
gkrellm might be an option. It supports checking all kind of mailboxes.
Doesn't matter if you're using kde/gnome/whatever

Hth

Alex