Gmail Notifier Is A Light, Convenient Email Checker For Ubuntu

I just installed this over the past weekend using Ubuntu-tweak. Lots of useful stuff in that tweak app. It pulled down everything I needed.

Haven't really had much time to play and insure everything is working correctly, just kinda installed it and that was that. Hopefully this week.

thrashnbash1

I installed it, but it doesnt do anything. i set up my name and pass, but no mail is fetched, and there is no process in gnome-system-monitor

qwer777

is there a deb out there. i hate installing tarballs

qwer777

Check out Digsby on Windows. A bit bloated, perhaps, but a pretty slick interface (and works with Facebook, etc.).

Supposedly, a Linux version is in the works, but who knows when...

jkrell

This app is not the same app "Gmail Notify" available in Jaunty's repositories and Ubuntu Tweak. The app available in repositories doesn't show notifications in the new way. This new notifier is interesting, but there's no installation .DEB. file for it. I do not install from .tar.gz as a matter of principle.

GabrielCassiopeia

Dang, this is sweet, I will look for it in the package repositories.

BrianB

@ValerianKeph: cGmail is great, but unfortunately does not yet have good integration with the new Ubuntu notification system. It may be a small thing, but some people just want to know that there is mail, and want that notification to look pretty.

As a side note, I can't seem to get cGmail .5 working in Ubuntu 9.04. I haven't looked very far into the problem, but the repositories are still on .4.

kyre

Don't confuse this with the 'gmail-notify' package in the universe repo. It uses it own on-screen notification, and is very ugly.

OrnellaScaeva

If you use pidgin for google talk it gets email updates immediately, just no fancy notification. Pidgin will just flash the buddy list window and say X new messages.

syko21

I've tested a lot of these notifiers, but from the ones that support the IMAP protocol (that works with gmail and many other accounts that I have), and honestly cGmail was the one that has better functionality/desktop integration ratio in my opinion.

ValerianKeph

If you're willing to compile it yourself, mail-notification is a great alternative. The prebuilt Ubuntu package doesn't have SSL support compiled in, which is necessary for Gmail, but it's well worth the effort to get it working. POP and IMAP are supported, and with the IMAP IDLE extension support enabled, you can get push Gmail! Plus, it uses libnotify so the notifications should still look good.

SibaniCabaje

Wow, is there anything like this for windows? I've been looking for something like this for a while now.

UdolfChamois

@SibaniCabaje: I'm using mail-notification from the Jaunty repositories and it's working fine with SSL for me (perhaps the Intrepid version was older).

zoomZAP

@UnderLoK: Sorry I didn't notice your "couple hours" comment.

More than likely anything that is missing is in the repository and doesn't take 2 hours to figure out. You try to compile, it errors out, you load what's missing, try again.

@HeartBurnKid uses Linux: the taint of OS's: I understand that, but users that have done full installs rarely run into problem compiling something small. God forbid they actually learn how to use the system in case it breaks and we aren't talking about Slackware from 1997 here.

Seriously that kind of mentality is idiotic. If the user doesn't even know wth to do in a command line they are 100% screwed if something goes wrong and as such might as well use Windows or OSX.

@UnderLoK: You forgot the part where you spend a couple of hours trying to resolve dependencies.

There's a reason we have .deb files and repositories, and it's the same reason Windows has InstallShield. Because the end user should never have to compile.

I removed the icon from the notification area but I'd like to add it back but can't. Anyone know how? (note: I have a notification area, I just removed the envelope icon)

RubyFlaccus

Is there a Google Reader notification that works with Vista x64. All I could find is an old one that doesn't work anymore (found on here).

if you're looking for an icon in your tray, add the Indicator Applet to your gnome-panel which integrates with gm-notify.

PattyPlancus

@qwer777: Yea it's super hard...

tar zxpvf filename.tar.gz
./configure
make
make install

I see what you mean... Way too much work!

@jkrell: Yea, it's bloated, but honestly in this day and age who cares. Most of us have a gb of ram to spare anyways ;)

@GabrielCassiopeia: I guess that's why you run Ubuntu...

Not compiling software out of principle... That's a new one.

Just in case anyone else can't get python-indicate to install on x64 via apt-get, here is a downloadable .deb for it.

Anyone else run into this problem?

[launchpad.net]

jharris0221

@UdolfChamois: Never looked... But Outlook has been doing it forever.

@qwer777: I have the same problem. No icon in the notification area and nothing happens when I send test emails. Could anyone advice a foolproof way of getting it to work? I admit to being very savvy with the CLI.

nielsforpokker

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Andrivious

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Andrivious

@GabrielCassiopeia:

[launchpad.net]

or if you prefer, direct link: [launchpad.net]

jharris0221

any way to make it check labels?

qwer777

Does this check gmail labels? I am currently using CheckGmail in Jaunty, since it's the only one I found to check labels as well as main inbox.

ValfridJapanties

@UnderLoK: Yeah, that's exactly what I thought. I primarily run Ubuntu, but I still prefer to configure & compile things from source - as a matter of principle.

Does it work with gmail for your domain?
I had to do some editing to the gmail-notify to get it working with gmail for my domain.

Does anyone know if this works with domain "out of the box"? If not would I have to modify the source, or the installed files to get it to work.

Confuzius

thanks for the tip! can i ask what twitter app do you use in ubuntu (it's in sys tray on the picture ...)? THANKS

Michal Å kop

this package is really nice. i've used the old version for a while and it has been so helpful. i modified it slightly to blink my thinkpad light every ~20 seconds if i have unread email so i don't forget about them :D it's a little annoying but more than worth it to not have my boss or someone else firing me multiple confirmation request emails.

buradleix

@UnderLoK:
After sudo apt-get install checkinstall

tar zxpvf package.tar.gz
cd package
./configure
sudo make
sudo checkinstall

Will give you a .deb package that you can remove from the package managers, a bit more noob friendly.

Confuzius

Installed it, the intro bubble comes up. I go into system>prefs and set it up and then it does nothing. Never checks gmail, displays anything.

YadiraIole

@UnderLoK: And load more missing stuff, and try again, and load more missing stuff, and try again...

I'm not just speaking out of my ass here. This is the kind of experience I had trying to compile both PCSX2 and OWB. And I never actually did get OWB to compile.

And I agree with you, every user of any OS should have at least a basic knowledge of the command line. But "using the command line" and "compiling an app" are two entirely different things.

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omegahelix

Is it just me or does this app crash all the time?
I've tried it in 8.04 and 8.10 and in both cases it kept crashing.

reg4c

@reg4c: The installation page specifically says it will not work with older versions of Ubuntu other than Jaunty.

osugodfan

@PhillySaxon: So you're the one!

Isn't there a firefox extension for this? Why not use simply the extension instead of this?

BurgessAntenor

I personally adore the 'gnubiff' package's mail applet that sits among my launchers. It supports Imap perfectly, and shows a cute dozing little penguin when there's no mail, then wakes up and shows a docked popup window (like Deskbar's) when mail comes in.

As it also fetches the first few lines of each message I've also made it a habit to use the penguin as my 'primary' mail client now, only booting up Gmail/Thunderbird to clean up my inbox.

Jerry

There is now a .deb package available: http://launchpad.net/gm-notify/0.x/0.8/+download/gm-notify_0.8-0ppa2_all.deb

KeithBogdan

hey guys, now there is a .deb Package available, too :) Just visit the linked Download-page! greetings Alex

IvanaGabrys

@Jerry: I tried mail-notification, cGmail, check Gmail, and Gmail notifier, and maybe some others, but I settle on gnubiff as superior for me. I do wish gnubiff integrated with ubuntu 9.04's notifications though.

anachoret

for windows there is a better one, check http://gmailnotifier.net/

AlmaRat