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yadayada2
April 23rd, 2008, 06:17 AM
Hi,

I am searching for a good mail notifier. Until now I used gkrellm. Now I am looking for a notifier as part of the xubuntu panel.

By now I have tested about 10 differnt notifiers. Unfortunately none of them worked properly and I am not talking about beauty. There is mail watcher from ubuntu, which is nice, but I can't get it to check for IMAP subfolders (somehow only checking inbox, in gkrellm I could check for inbox.foldername).

Several others didn't work either. Mail notification looked promising, but had no SSL support.

Well, do you know a decent mail notifier, which keeps me informed about my IMAP subfolders using SSL?
morgengenuss
April 23rd, 2008, 06:45 AM
it would be super-helpful if you could list the ones you've tried and explain what didn't satisfy you about them.
there are really tons of mail-notifiers out there, so ...

anyhoo, i have to confess i stopped bothering about this, since i use claws-mail, which is such a slim and slick application that i can leave it running in the background all the time with a trayicon showing me whether i got mail ;)
yadayada2
April 23rd, 2008, 09:28 AM
Uhm ... let's think about it. So there was mail watcher, cGmail, mail notification, specto and more. I don't remember everyone.
yadayada2
April 23rd, 2008, 02:08 PM
Okay, little update from my side. Mail watcher is working and checks even subfolders. However, it's only summing them up and don't show me, which folder contains (how much) new mails.

Ideas/suggestions?
morgengenuss
April 24th, 2008, 09:41 AM
so you basically want a mail notification that is as powerful as a client?

(as i said, try running claws-mail in the background. it really doesn't occupy a lot of resources...)
yadayada2
April 24th, 2008, 01:24 PM
Reluctantly, I switched back to gkrellm. But I did it only, because it can show me the different mail boxes/folders of my IMAP acc and the other notifiers could not.

Wouldn't be so bad, if gkrellm wasn't so ugly...
morgengenuss
April 28th, 2008, 06:42 AM
actually it's possible to theme gkrellm, so it doesn't have to be so ugly...

just take a look: http://www.muhri.net/gkrellm/nav.php3?node=gkrellmall&sort=added&conf=DESC