[SOLVED] New mail notification on Sylpheed

black-clover · 11-30-2021, 01:23 PM

Hi,

Is there a way to configure Sylpheed to show a new mail notification on the tray every time any of my accounts receives a new email?

Thanks.

shruggy · 11-30-2021, 02:13 PM

I'd use a separate mail indicator for this. In GNOME, that would be either Mailnag or Bubblemail GNOME Shell extension; in XFCE, Mailwatch, and so on.

black-clover · 11-30-2021, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shruggy

I'd use a separate mail indicator for this. In GNOME, that would be either Mailnag or Bubblemail GNOME Shell extension; in XFCE, Mailwatch, and so on.

I use JWM, so I'd have to check if those apps woud work. What I intended though was if such functionality could be achieved within Sylpheed settings.

shruggy · 12-01-2021, 02:14 AM

Claws Mail is a fork of Sylpheed, and there are several mail notifiers for it in package claws-mail-multi-notifier (Debian-based) re. claws-mail-plugins-notification (Alpine). Or perhaps, claws-mail-acpi-notifier if your hardware supports it.

And for JWM, you likely should check not the GNOME extensions, but their underlying tools, e.g. mailnag.

Other than that, there are quite a few standalone mail notifiers starting from the venerable xbiff which is part of x11-apps, coolmail and xlassie (both plain Xlib), xbuffy (X Athena widgets), gnubiff and unity-mail (both GTK3), and so on. Which one will work for you may depend on your MTA configuration.

black-clover · 12-01-2021, 07:22 PM

This worked for me:

1. Install the Libnotify-bin package.

Code:

sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin

2. Make Sylpheed check for mail regularly.

Open Sylpheed. At the top menu bar, go to: Configuration -> Common preferences and tick the first box (Auto-check new mail every...). Then click "Apply".

3. Make a popup appear when new mail is received.

In the same window as above, tick "Execute command when new messages arrived"

In the "command" box, copy and paste the code:

Code:

notify-send -i /usr/share/pixmaps/sylpheed.png "New Mail"

Click "Apply", then "OK".