On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Toralf Lund toralf.lund@pgs.com wrote:
On 27/01/13 07:13, SilverTip257 wrote:
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Giles Coocheygiles@coochey.net
wrote:
On 25/01/2013 15:00, Toralf Lund wrote:
Hi.
Does anyone know of a way to add a "new mail" notification icon to the panel/system tray under CentOS 6? On CentOS 5, I used the "mail-notification" software package provided
by
the Fedora "EPEL" distribution, but this is gone from the version 6 repository, and the one from version 5 won't install just like that due to dependency issues. Maybe it's possible to resolve those, but I'm wondering if that's the way to go, or if there is a better alternative these days.
In the old days we used biff... then xbiff came along... new fangled things!
Something like:
http://homepages.shu.ac.uk/~**cmsps/freeScripts/xbiff.py< http://homepages.shu.ac.uk/~cmsps/freeScripts/xbiff.py%3E
Don't some MUAs come with small panel applets for this?
@Toralf:
I have Evolution Mail on my work desktop (not CentOS) set to display pop-ups (using libnotify). I don't recall though if I had to do anything more than click a check box in Evolution's preferences.
You might consider having your MUA do the notifying rather than having an applet go check your inbox for you.
I'm mostly using thunderbird for e-mail, and it actually also supports notification via pop-ups. But:
- I think it's nice to be able to close the application completely when not working on e-mail.
I hear you! ;)
- "Global" popups are generally annoying/too obtrusive. A small icon that changes state is much better.
Understandable.
http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/ I'm guessing this is what you've used in the past.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/mail-notification Even though the package is listed it appears nobody has packaged it in EPEL (for example). http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/repoview/letter_m.group.html
Not as simple, but you might consider building it on your system.
- Toralf
It isn't so common to receive email locally anymore, most people are
using
remote mail servers.
-- Regards,
Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk giles@coochey.net
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