mail alert icon

[Matej Cepl]

Stephen Adler wrote:
> 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?

The keyword you are looking for is biff (which is old console-only program
which does exactly what you want; every reincarnation of similar program
usually refers to this name). I (being on Debian) would do

apt-cache search biff

(your distribution probably has similar command)

Matej

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