yum info mail-notification In Extras, I think. Tony On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 08:27 -0400, George Avrunin wrote: > I often work from one machine while receiving most of my mail on > another. I read my mail with VM in XEmacs, and I use procmail to sort > much of it into various files (e.g., the mail for the Fedora list). > > In the past, I have used xbuffy and gbuffy to monitor my system > mailbox and a couple of these other mailboxes. These programs offer > an advantage for me over the mail-notification applet or programs like > gnubiff because they provide an immediate visual indication of whether > there's mail in those mailboxes--it's not necessary to move the mouse > over an icon or click on anything to see whether there's new mail. I > just installed FC5 on the machine that gets most of the mail, and I > can't find rpms for gbuffy or xbuffy that will install or build. It > looks like the problems are due to changes in gtk and to gcc getting > pickier, but I thought I would ask for suggestions before I try to > brush up my meager C skills. > > Does anyone know of substitutes for or improvements on (g|x)buffy? I > need to be able to monitor remote mailboxes, and I'd like something > that sits there quietly showing whether I have mail in each of those > mailboxes, but can also show me the From and Subject headers if I ask > for them. Pointers to rpms for gbuffy or xbuffy (or how to get them > to compile on FC5) would also be fine. > > Thanks, > > George
