Email Client – Tech Stuff https://gofedora.com How Tos, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:17:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4 How To: New Mail Notification https://gofedora.com/how-to-new-email-notification/ https://gofedora.com/how-to-new-email-notification/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:27:18 +0000 http://gofedora.com/?p=890 … ]]> mbooth commented on one of my last post (How To: GNOME GMail Notifier) informing that he/she uses mail-notification. I was curious to check it out for mail via IMAP and I found it way more useful as compared to Gnome Gmail Notifier. I especially like the option to configure it to check the mails every ten seconds. Thats way cool for anxious people like me πŸ™‚ Keeping in mind the huge advantages of mail-notification, I thought of writing an howto for configuring it πŸ™‚

Install Mail Notification

Installing something can’t be simpler. Just use the following command as root

[root@fedora ~]$ yum install mail-notification

Configuring mail-notification is very simple. Its as easy as it can get but there are tricks for special cases like Gmail forΒ  Google Apps hosted websites.

Launch Mail Notification

Mail notification loses a point here. It doesn’t show up in any of the menus. You have to launch it from command line. You can launch mail-notification from System -> Preferences -> Mail Notification (Thanks mbooth for correcting). Or use the following command as normal user to launch mail notification

[saini@fedora ~]$ mail-notification -p

Configure Status Icon Behaviour

On mail notification properties windows, select Status Icon tab and choose the appropriate behaviour.

Mail Notification Status Icon Action

New Message Popup Settings

Now go to Message Popups tab, and select appropriate options. If you don’t enable popups, using mail notification doesn’t really make sense (though none can prevent you from doing so πŸ™‚ ). Keeping popus stacked is good because it shows you all messages in case you get more than one new mails in an interval. Also, you can configure the expiration time for the popups.

Mail Notification Message Popups Settings

Add New Mailbox

Now select General tab and click of Add button. Mail-notification supports checking new mails from Evolution, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Mail, any IMAP and POP3 Server and moreover your system mailbox πŸ™‚ Select Gmail for mailbox type. Enter username and password for Gmail account.

Mail Notification Supported Mailboxes

Mail Notification Add Gmail Account

Now move over to Details tab and set delay between checking mails. I keep it 10 seconds πŸ™‚

Mail Notification Gmail Account Settings

Add a Google Apps Hosted Email Account

This is totally optional πŸ™‚ Now we’ll add a Google Apps hosted account. This is a bit tricky. For mailbox type, you’ll have to select Gmail. For username, you’ll have to provide your email address.

Mail Notification Add Google Apps Hosted Account

Also, the mailbox name has to be modified in this case to make things work. Move over to Details tab and change mailbox name to your email address.

Mail Notification Google Apps Hosted Account Settings

Add a new IMAP mailbox (Gmail)

This is totally optional πŸ™‚ Keep mailbox type as IMAP. IMAP Server has to be imap.gmail.com . Username and password are same as Gmail Account.

Note: For this mailbox to work, you’ll have to enable IMAP in settings tab in Gmail.

Mail Notification Gmail IMAP Account

Now move over to Connection tab. Connection for Gmail IMAP has to be SSL enabled. So, select “SSL/TLS on separate port” and make sure the port number is 993.

Mail Notification Gmail IMAP Account Connection Settings

Well thats all you need to do for configuring things for getting new mail notifications lightning fast πŸ™‚ Now sit back and relax until someone sends you a mail πŸ™‚

The only major disadvantage that I found with mail-notification is that it doesn’t stay in notification area all the time. It appears only when there is a new mail.

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How To: GNOME GMail Notifier https://gofedora.com/gnome-gmail-notifier/ https://gofedora.com/gnome-gmail-notifier/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:14:34 +0000 http://gofedora.com/?p=831 … ]]> GNOME GMail (Google GMail) Notifier is an awesome tool for GNOME/Linux users if you are addicted to checking mails every few minutes. GMail Notifier solves a bit of your problems by notifying about multiple gmail accounts. One more plus point is that it can display GMail Notifications for new mails in accounts for which you are using Google Apps. Below is a step by step howto on installing and configuring GMail Notifier in Fedora (may apply to other distros as well).

Install GNOME GMail Notifier

You can download and install it from GNOME GMail notifier home page or just use yum

[root@fedora ~]$ yum install gnome-gmail-notifier

Launch Gmail Notifier

If installation was successful, go to Applications -> Internet -> Gmail Notifier.

GNOME Gmail Notifier

Open Preferences

Right click on Email icon in taskbar and click Preferences.

GNOME Gmail Notifier Select Prefreneces

Select Preferences

Set inbox update time to 1 minute. Check display notifications for new messages and errors. Also select a sound to play for new mails.

GNOME Gmail Notifier Prefreneces

Add GMail Account

Click Add on preferences window and add your GMail account.

GNOME Gmail Notifier Add GMail Account

Add Mail Account (Google Apps) (Optional)

If you don’t know what Google Apps is, leave this step. If you do know, then add your mail account.

GNOME Gmail Notifier Add Google Apps Account

Check Mail

If you can’t wait for 1 minutes to see GMail Notifier in action, just right click on email icon in taskbar and click Check Mail.

GNOME Gmail Notifier Check New Mails

Mail Notifications

Whenever you get a new mail, you’ll have bubble like the one in image below and a sound will also be played.

GNOME Gmail Notifier New Mail Notification

Enjoy the notifications πŸ™‚

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Info: Spicebird Beta 0.7 Final Released https://gofedora.com/info-spicebird-beta-07-final-released/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:21:01 +0000 http://172.17.8.64/gofedora/?p=291 … ]]>

Reporting from Spicebird blog,

Spicebird is a collaboration client that provides integrated access to email, contacts, calendaring and instant messaging in a single application. It provides easy access to various web services while retaining all the advantages of a desktop application. The application is based on projects like Thunderbird, Lightning and Telepathy and adds more functionality and integration among its components.

This release of Spicebird adds the following functionality:

  • Chat with friends on services like Yahoo, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ and Jabber
  • Add iGoogle Gadgets to Spicebird
  • Disable the applications that are unused
  • Access Google calendar
  • Experimental support for managing blogs
  • Available in more than 10 languages
  • Basic set of add-ons
  • Import data from Thunderbird, Outlook and Outlook Express

For a detailed description of this release, see the release notes.

Get Spicebird!

See how to install Spicebird on Linux. I’ll review the latest release very soon πŸ™‚

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Info: Spicebird 0.7 Pre with Awesome Features https://gofedora.com/info-spicebird-07-pre-awesome-features/ https://gofedora.com/info-spicebird-07-pre-awesome-features/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:01:09 +0000 http://172.17.8.64/gofedora/?p=319 … ]]> Spicebird is

your one platform for many collaboration needs. It provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging with intuitive integration and unlimited extensibility.

Spicebird beta 0.7 pre release is out now and can be downloaded in 10 languages from the i10n nightly build archive. For the latest nightly build of English version, check this English nightly build archive.

Some of the new features in version 0.7 are

  • Google Applets in Home Tab
    • You can add Google applets in the Home tab. For example: On home tab, click Add Applet -> Google Applet. Add a url to Google applet (e.g. Google Map Search). And you’ll have a nice Google map on your home page πŸ™‚
    • Or add date & time applet ( this url )
    • Or from the thousands of applets available from Google πŸ™‚

Google Applets in Spicebird

  • Auto Update Feature
    • Spicebird now checks for updates automatically πŸ™‚

Spicebird Auto Update

  • Its way faster than the previous version. Thats my personal opinion. IΒ was using Spicebird beta 0.4 since more than 6 months.

Check the official release announcement for more details.

How to install Spicebird for test usage

Download

Get the latest version of Spicebird from nighty build archive.

Extract and Move

Extract the Spicebird archive file as

[root@localhost ~]# tar -xjf spicebird-beta-0.7pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2 [ENTER]

Move the extracted directory to /opt/

[root@localhost ~]# mv spicebird-beta /opt/ [ENTER]

Create shortcut on Panel

Right click on Gnome panel and click “Add to Panel

Add Spicebird to Panel

Click on “Custom Application Launcher”

Spicebird Custom Application Launcher

Fill in appropriate details as shown in the following image

Spicebird Create Application Launcher

Choose an icon for Spicebird by clicking the “No Icon” button on the top left corner.

Spicebird Launcher Icon

Click Ok. And you are done. Now click the new icon that has just appeared on the panel. Rest of the configuration like account creation and settings is exactly same as Thunderbird or Evolution or any other mail client.

Reference :Β Spicebird Official Website

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Review: Spicebird – A Collaboration Platform https://gofedora.com/review-spicebird-collaboration-platform/ https://gofedora.com/review-spicebird-collaboration-platform/#comments Sat, 24 May 2008 19:44:35 +0000 http://172.17.8.64/gofedora/?p=203 … ]]> Well, I happened to attend this workshop on “How to build business around open source tools” organized by Twincling Society and IIIT Hyderabad. There I came to know about Spicebird. Spicebird is a single platform for many collaboration needs. It provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging with intuitive integration and unlimited extensibility. Spicebird is being developed by a Hyderabad based Indian start-up named Synovel (All four founders are alumni of IIIT Hyderabad). Below we look at some features that Spicebird provides.

1. Tabbed Interface

The tabbed interface for different utilities like mail, calendar, contacts, tasks etc. looks pretty clean. The interface is not at all cluttered in any way and navigation to different utilities is straight forward. You don’t have to brainstorm before getting something done.

2. Familiar Interface & Crisp Icon Set

Spicebird has an interface similar to loads of mozilla based application out there. The settings, preferences and the way things have been managed are familiar. So people who are switching from other open source email clients will not face any problems at all. Spicebird uses icons from Tango Project. The icons used are really good looking.

3. Nice Home Tab

The way Home tab has been organized is really appealing. You can add applets which includes rss feeds from you favourite blogs, mail folder views, calendar, upcoming events and Date & Time. Geeks love rss feeds. And what can be better than having it on your home tab all the time along with your mails. Event applet comes handy to remind you of the upcoming meetings and deadlines. And its on home tab all the time πŸ™‚ Date & Time is specially helpful when you collaborate with people in different timezones. So you can add their timezone on home tab and you know when is the right time to ping them.

Spicebird Home Tab

4. Email

Email experience is more or less like any other open source email client. But Spicebird provides some intitutive features like if it finds that the content of a mail is about a meeting, it’ll give an option for creating a calendar event for the same. This is a really good feature and this is just the begining. Spicebird is still beta.

SpiceBird Intutive Mail

5. Instant Messaging

This is a really cool feature from collaboration point of view and which makes Spicebird different from the masses. Spicebird is supporting IM via any jabber server. So if you are a startup, setup your own jabber server on Intranet and use it for collaboration. Mind blowing!! This also includes Gmail/GTalk. So you can just say bye bye to your messenger and start using it right away with GTalk. Plus this will import all your contacts to your local address book. Another real good feature which is not there in lot of other email clients.

SpiceBird Instant Message using Jabber, GTalk

6. Calendar & Task Management

Another good feature. Integrated calendar and task management. You can quickly add tasks and events. And you need not check your calendar for upcoming events, add upcoming event applet on home tab and you will have them all the time in front of your eyes πŸ™‚

Spicebird Calendar and Task Manager

Conclusion

Whether you are a startup which is looking for tools to collaborate or a user who is excited about using open source tools, just go and download Spicebird from here and explore a new way of managing things at a single place πŸ™‚

You can look at Spicebird Roadmap here and checkout the video demo of Spicebird here.

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How To: Configure Evolution https://gofedora.com/how-to-configure-evolution/ https://gofedora.com/how-to-configure-evolution/#comments Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:48:21 +0000 http://172.17.8.64/gofedora/?p=43 … ]]> Well if you already know it, don’t waste your time. But if you don’t know just go through it. Today I started using evolution mail for viewing my mails at the students mail server. Its very attractive as you have vast variety of options for making contact list and its fast and easy way to have your mails at hand. Filters are provided with different specifications. You have your calendar to schedule your jobs and much more to explore. Following are the configuration steps.

1. Start evolution mail by clicking this icon Evolution Icon on you panel or in start menu go to internet and click Email or evolution mail or run command “evolution” from the terminal.

2. A window like this will appear

Evolution  Startup

Evolution Startup

click forward to have this …

Evolution Mail Account

Evolution Mail Account

after adding user yourname@students.iiit.ac.in click forward ….

Evolution Mail Account Preferences

Evolution Mail Account Preferences

choose imap as server type and fill other required information and click forward ….

Evolutoin Mail Server Preferences

Evolutoin Mail Server Preferences

fill information accordingly as it suits you and click forward …

Evolution Account Name

Evolution Account Name

name the account and click forward …

Evolution Finish

Evolution Finish

click apply and it will ask your password for the account give the password.

Now enjoy the facilities provided in the evolution mail browser.

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Hack: Mail Filter – Shell Script https://gofedora.com/hack-mail-filter-shell-script/ https://gofedora.com/hack-mail-filter-shell-script/#comments Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:57:28 +0000 http://172.17.8.64/gofedora/?p=243 … ]]> This is an attempt by me to filter mails on a Linux machine. You can run this file on your home directory at mail server and it will help you to sort mails on the basis of

  • From which user the mail has come or from which domain it came,
  • to which user or domain mail was sent and
  • the keywords in the subject part of the mail.

Actually its very slow as shell is very slow , I cant help it . It scan your entire mbox file in the home directory by default. Copy the code and paste in a file say filter.sh and change its permissions to executable. Place it in you home directory at the mail server and run.

Example
You want to see all mails from username@gmail.com just run and it will ask for input,
press 1
From: username [Enter]
It will display all the mails from that are lying there in your mbox one by one.

Get the script here or copy the code below.

#!/bin/bash
#################################
#   Author - Kulbir Saini       #
#   Home - http://sain.ico.in/  #
#################################

#shell script to filter mails.
echo -e -n "\033[32mWelcome to the mail filter system \nWhat do you want to do? \nCheck mails on basis of \n1) Sender... \n2) Receiver... \n3) Subject... \n4) Quit... \nPress(1,2,3,4): \033[0m"
read int <&2
while [[ 1 ]];do
while [[ 1 ]];do
count=0;	line=""
if [[ $int == 1 ]];then
	echo -n -e "\033[32mFrom:\033[0m "
	read from <&2
	i=0
	clear
	while read line ;do
	loopbreak=0;	nextmessagestatus=1;	mailtostatus=1;		mailsubstatus=1;	stat=1;
	toecho=`echo $line | grep -E "^From:+" | grep -E "${from}"`
	if [ "$toecho" != "" ];then
		i=`expr $i + 1`
		echo -e "${toecho}"
		while read line ; do
		mailto=`echo $line | grep -E "^To:+"`
		mailsub=`echo $line | grep -E "^Subject:+"`
		if [[ "$mailto" != "" ]] && [[ $mailtostatus == 1 ]];then
			echo $mailto
			mailtostatus=0
		fi
		if [[ "$mailsub" != "" ]] && [[ $mailsubstatus == 1 ]];then
			echo $mailsub
			mailsubstatus=0
		fi
		if [[ $mailtostatus == 0 ]] && [[ $mailsubstatus == 0 ]] && [[ $stat == 1 ]];then
			echo -e "\033[33mStarting of the Message${i}:\033[0m"
			stat=0
		fi
		fromstatus=`echo $line | grep -E "^X-UID:+"`
			if [[ $fromstatus != "" ]];then
			while read line; do
				loopstatus=`echo $line | grep -E "^From +"`
				if [[ $loopstatus != "" ]];then
				loopbreak=1
				break
				fi
				echo $line
			done
			if [[ $loopbreak == 1 ]];then
			echo -e -n "\033[33mEnd of the Message${i}.\nDisplay next message(y/n):\033[0m"
			read messagestatus <&2
			if [[ "$messagestatus" == "y" ]];then
				clear
			else
				nextmessagestatus=0
			fi
			break
			fi
			fi
		done
		count=`expr $count + 1`
	fi
	if [[ $nextmessagestatus == 0 ]];then
		break
	fi
	done
	if [[ $count == 0 ]];then
		echo -e "\033[32mNo mail(s) From: ${from}.\n\033[0m"
	else
		echo -e "\033[32mTotal $count mail(s) From: ${from}.\n\033[0m"
	fi
elif [[ $int == 2 ]];then
	echo -n -e "\033[32mTo: \033[0m"
	read to <&2
	i=0
	clear
	while read line ;do
	loopbreak=0;	nextmessagestatus=1
	toecho=`echo $line | grep -E "^To:+" | grep -E "${to}"`
	if [[ "$toecho" != "" ]];then
		echo -e "$toecho"
		i=`expr $i + 1`
		while read line; do
			tostatus=`echo $line | grep -E "^X-UID:+"`
			if [[ $tostatus != "" ]];then
			echo -e "\033[33mStarting of the Message${i}:\033[0m"
			while read line; do
				loopstatus=`echo $line | grep -E "^From +"`
				if [[ $loopstatus != "" ]];then
				loopbreak=1
				break
				fi
				echo $line
			done
			if [[ $loopbreak == 1 ]];then
			echo -e -n "\033[33mEnd of the Message${i}. \nDisplay next message(y/n): \033[0m"
			read messagestatus <&2
			if [[ $messagestatus == "y" ]];then
				clear
			else
				nextmessagestatus=0
			fi
			break
			fi
			fi
		done
		count=`expr $count + 1`
	fi
	if [[ $nextmessagestatus == 0 ]];then
		break
	fi
	done
	if [[ $count == 0 ]];then
		echo -e "\033[32mNo mail(s) to: ${to}.\n\033[0m"
	else 
		echo -e "\033[32mTotal $count mail(s) To: ${to}.\n\033[0m"
	fi
elif [[ $int == 3 ]];then
	echo -n -e "\033[32mSubject:\033[0m "

	read subject <&2
	clear
	i=0
	while read line ;do
	loopbreak=0;	nextmessagestatus=1
	toecho=`echo $line | grep -E "^Subject:+" | grep -E "${subject}"`
	if [[ "$toecho" != "" ]];then
		echo "$toecho"
		i=`expr $i + 1`
		while read line; do
		substatus=`echo $line | grep -E "^X-UID:+"`
		if [[ $substatus != "" ]];then
		echo -e "\033[33mStarting of the Message${i}:\033[0m"
		while read line ; do
			loopstatus=`echo $line | grep -E "^From +"`
			if [[ $loopstatus != "" ]];then
			loopbreak=1
			break
			fi
			echo $line
		done
		if [[ $loopbreak == 1 ]];then
		echo -e -n "\033[33mEnd of the message${i}. \nDisplay next message(y/n): \033[0m"
		read messagestatus <&2
		if [[ $messagestatus == "y" ]];then
			clear
		else
			nextmessagestatus=0
		fi
		break
		fi
		fi
		done
		count=`expr $count + 1`
	fi
	if [[ $nextmessagestatus == 0 ]];then
		break
	fi
	done
	if [[ $count == 0 ]];then
		echo -e "\033[32mNo mail(s) with Subject: ${subject}.\n\033[0m"
	else
		echo -e "\033[32mTotal $count mail(s) with Subject: ${subject}.\033[0m\n"
	fi
elif [[ $int == 4 ]];then
	echo -e "\033[32mThank you for using this utility. \nPlease visit again.\033[0m"
	exit
else
	echo -e "\033[32mI could not understand that. \nPlease try again.\033[0m\n"
fi
echo -e -n "\033[32m1) Sender... \n2) Receiver... \n3) Subject... \n4) Quit... \nPress(1,2,3,4):\033[0m "
read int <&2
break
done < mbox 
done 
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