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 Don't some MUAs come with small panel applets for this? 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 at coochey.net