unread email notifier

wjtaylor · 02-24-2011, 07:33 PM

Hi everyone,

I have 2 machines:

Deb 6
Ubuntu 10.10

I am looking for something that tells me I have unread mail waiting.

This would only be mail sent to root from the local machine and forwarded to my account. It seems like mail-notifier is broken in Evolution w/ Ubuntu 10.10.

Anyone have an easy solution to have a notification on my desktop when I recieve mail? I would install on both my boxes.

Thanks,
WT

corp769 · 02-24-2011, 07:38 PM

I use conky to let me know when I have unread emails from my gmail account. Would conky be good? If so, let me know. I could hook you up with the script and code I use.

wjtaylor · 02-24-2011, 08:07 PM

This wouldn't be for Gmail, POP, IMAP, or any other remote mail. I just need to check mail in /var/mail/username. Apcupsd, smarttools, and other daemons send email notifications to root that is forwarded to my account. Do admins really have to manually check for mail in a terminal? There is no notification on the desktop?

corp769 · 02-24-2011, 08:13 PM

You can still use conky for that, using the exec command within conky and tail /var/mail/[username]

wjtaylor · 02-24-2011, 08:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corp769

You can still use conky for that, using the exec command within conky and tail /var/mail/[username]

OK, I'll try it out. How is it on resources?

WT

corp769 · 02-24-2011, 08:32 PM

Just as long as you don't completely over do it, you are fine. Look in the screenshot thread, I have screenshots up of my laptop. I'm pretty sure you won't have as many instances up like me though... LOL

corp769 · 02-24-2011, 08:35 PM

Here is how I do it on my machine, edited to reflect your setup (not your username though)

Code:

background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=7
xftalpha 0.8
update_interval 1
update_interval_on_battery 7
total_run_times 0
own_window no
double_buffer yes
draw_shades yes
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
stippled_borders 8
border_width 0
default_color white
default_shade_color black
own_window              yes
own_window_transparent  yes
own_window_type         override
own_window_hints        undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
alignment tl
gap_x 0
gap_y 0
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
override_utf8_locale yes
use_spacer right
color0 yellow
color1 white
TEXT

${color0}INCOMING MESSAGES ${hr}${color1}
${tail /var/mail/username 10}