mail alert icon

[bill at mills-curran.net (Bill Mills-Curran)]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 08:26:28AM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> I was wondering if there was some kind of mail alert icon which one 
> could dock in
> the gnome applet bar which would indicate when new e-mail has been 
> fetched from
> my imap server by thunderbird. Any ideas?
> 
> Cheers. Steve.
> 
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I like to get pop-ups for various things, so I wrote a Perl script
which monitors my email folder and also a couple of logs files, like
IM so I know when something new happens.  It uses xmessage for the
popups.

Bill