Email Notification

llewellen · 02-20-2017, 12:51 PM

I use webmail, accessed with a browser (typically Firefox). I have an email notification add-on in Firefox but obviously it only works if Firefox is running.

I need a system notification that will alert me to arrival of emails independently of the browser.

Recommendations?

szboardstretcher · 02-20-2017, 12:57 PM

Possible. What is your webmail though? That will tell you what kind of request/url/api you will have to craft to get an alert. For example, I use this one for gmail alerts in conky:

https://github.com/boardstretcher/co...aster/gmail.py

From there, it should be trivial to set up a crontab entry and a gui alert when new mail is found.

llewellen · 02-20-2017, 01:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by szboardstretcher

Possible. What is your webmail though?

I'm considering dumping the webmail provided by my useless ISP and moving to Fastmail so I have a trial account @fastmail.fm

szboardstretcher · 02-20-2017, 02:13 PM

Hmm. IMO - From what I am reading about their API, you should pick someone else.

http://emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=71251

They don't maintain their SOAP interface from 2002, not likely you'll be able to interface with it to get unread email counts or alerts without considerable programming.

llewellen · 02-20-2017, 02:44 PM

OK thanks. It looks like, if I decide to move to Fastmail, I will have to be content with notifications via the browswer (when its running). Thanks for the responses.

Actually, not that big a deal because the notifications are pushed to my Blackberry whether or not my laptop browser is running and the BB has both sound and LED alerts.