On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 14:35 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 05:47 -0500, Howard Roberts wrote: > > > > I use Gnome desktop and have this little tool sitting in my notification > > panel: http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify > > Installed that as soon as you mentioned it, but for some reason it was > not working, for months. No interface to configure it, etc. Though after > weekly updates yesterday it did finally show up. I configured my email > accounts in it, and said bye bye to GNUBiff. > > GNUBiff was a great app, but I do like the integration of MailNotify a > bit more. It's basically MIA till you have mail, then you get an icon in > the notification area. Quite nice, and still plays my profane audio file > I got from the movie Euro Trip.... If only AOL shipped with that audio > file to begin with ;) > > For those with a taste for profanity, all others be forewarned! > http://www.wavsource.com/movies/eurotrip.htm It is about the handiest mail checker I've come across. FWIW, you did some tweeking to the list headers shortly after I sent that mail, and whatever the issue was with sender and subject not appearing was resolved as a result...ty.
I have no idea why it wouldn't work for you at all until now, but I see that often with various apps. Seems like upstream mods to all the different players involved: the app itself, X, the desktop manager, etc. (udev, hal, dbus, -- you know the drill) take a while to smooth themselves out. I've just learned to patiently accept it :p --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] List archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml
