Am Freitag, den 22.07.2005, 12:00 -0500 schrieb Mike McCarty: > Radek Vok�wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 15:26 +0900, Saurabh Siddharth wrote: > > [I'd like notification when mail arrives with GNOME] > > > Check mail-notification from fedora-extras > > I've got three questions in this regard. > > First, how does one check mail-notification from > fedora-extras? Install it with yum install mail-notitication or, if fedora-extras are not enabled in yum use yum --enable-repo=extras install mail-notification Then start it from the menu, set up you mailboxes and to give it a try ;-) > Second, I'm using Thunderbird to do mail pulls from an external > server provided by my ISP. How would GNOME be able to notice > that I had pulled mail via POP? mail-notification watches you local spool. On remote servers it just checks in paralell to your TB. > > Third, if it can't, then how on Earth do I get Thunderbird > to do that? I've checked "make a notification sound", and > "use the default system sound", and no sound. I've then > put in a custom sound (actually just one of the system .wav > files for a sort of a "pop" sound), and nothing came out. AFAIK this has been reported to be buggy. > And there doesn't seem to be any way to get a visual indication, > either. I suggest not to use mail-notification for your purpose but rather http://moztraybiff.mozdev.org/ which is an excellent extension to TB and works with all freedesktop compatible desktops (Gnome, KDE, XFCE and many more). > > Mike Christoph
