mail-notification: need alert popup or icon

[Thomas Taylor]

On Friday 22 July 2005 17:15, James Pifer wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 01:27, 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.
>
> Can anyone speak to why applications such as these have problems with
> notifications? I started a similar thread yesterday. I use Evolution and
> have tried both gnome and kde. I can't get it to give any type of
> notification. I had similar problems with Gaim when running gnome.
> Switching to kde partially fixes that. To me this is one of those very
> frustrating things about running 100% linux.
>
> Running a separate application in parallel does not appeal to me. I have
> my email running all day and would prefer to keep it minimized until I
> have a message or need to write one.
>
> Are there any links to general information about why notifications do
> not work?
>
> Thanks,
> James

For Kmail (kde), go to "Settings-Accounts-(select account)-Other Actions-More 
Options", click the Show Message box.  Since this is Pop3, you should have 
the check for mail set to some frequent setting.

HTH,
Tom

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