[SGVLUG] IMAP notifiers

[John E. Kreznar]

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Claude Felizardo <cafelizardo at gmail.com> writes:

> What do people use for email notifiers on Linux?

> At home on my windoze box, I use the netscape/mozilla notifier which
> sits in the task bar and it just works, letting me know when I have
> email in any of my accounts, either POP3 or IMAPs.

Instead of POP or IMAP, why don't you take mail by SMTP straight to
your site?  Then you can set up a simple "mail watch" script which
announces new mail in real time as it arrives.  This site has not been
without SMTP mail receipt since about 1992, spanning numerous ISPs and
static IP addresses; only the domain name has been constant.

A permanent feature of my main desktop display is a mail watch window
in the lower left corner.  When mail arrives, the script extracts the
From: and Subject: entries and prints them together with the minute of
arrival in one tidy line in that window.  The script is invoked
through procmail, through which all mail passes anyway.

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 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
  "[What open source is actually achieving is to reduce] the ability of
   proprietary companies to collect secrecy rent."  -- Eric S. Raymond

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