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Questions tagged [mail-notification]

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Unattended-upgrades mail only on error or reboot?

I have unattended-upgrades installed on several servers, some version 12, some 14. I would like to enable MailOnlyOnError for them but would still like to receive email notices when an update requires reboot. Will I still receive "reboot required"…
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Thunderbird pop-up notifications?

I have Thunderbird set up so that I will receive a notification when I get an email, but all I get is the sound notification. Is there any way I can get a pop up with a preview of the message like I can with other email clients? Edit: I am also…
quintus
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Have Thunderbird 52 running in background

Just like what people asked here in the past (How to run Thunderbird in the background?, Start Thunderbird in background), I would like to have Thunderbird running at all times during which my PC is turned on and notify me of new e-mails. In the…
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Xubuntu 15.04: Thunderbird new mail alert not showing

I'm an unexperienced Ubuntu user. I re-installed Xubuntu 15.04 a couple of days ago and I am not getting the new mail notifications for Thunderbird (I think I may have been getting them at the start, but not sure I remember right). I checked under…
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Missing e-mail notification for Thunderbird

I am using Thunderbird (version 68.7) on a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 but I do not get any notification popup in the system tray. I switched on notifications in the Thunderbird settings and notifications from other applications (such as Ubuntu…
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Gmail Notifier for Lubuntu

I am using Lubuntu Xenial and I would like to install a lightweight email notifier. I thought it would be easy to find a notifier with the following features: Lightweight, use very little memory and cpu (no heavy email clients, browser extensions,…
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Email icon (messaging menu) in Ubuntu 16.04

I have Ubuntu 16.04 installed and Mailnag to check my Gmail account. With Ubuntu 14.10 I had a email icon (messaging menu, provided by indicator-messages package, that I currently have installed) that becomes blue with new email notificacionts and…
dagavi
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email notification tool with office365 support and text based two factor authentication

I am using Kubuntu 18.04. I have to need notifications tool or client with notification support for exchange based office365. Our company forces two factor authentication with a sms text when logging in the account. What i tried so far is: Kmail:…
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Mail-notification plugin Ubuntu-Gnome 16.04 not playing sound

I'm using Evolution mail that doesn't have background process constantly checking mail server to notify me on new mail income. It has plugin notifier that is active only when Evolution is running. I installed sudo apt-get install mail-notification…
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Email notifications aren't sent from WordPress

I have deployed a WordPress site in a Ubuntu 14.04 server. The problem is that the email notifications from the site aren't sent. I checked the firewall is inactive. The port 25 is open, but the ports 465, 587 are closed. Unfortunately I don't have…
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Push e-mail for mail clients instead of timed polling?

I've installed Ubuntu onto my on-the-go laptop. I end up sending and receiving mail often, and sometimes quite quickly with people replying immediately. I have two accounts, one of which is my hotmail (outlook.com) account which I actually use…
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System tray icons for Gnote and Mail-Notification

After upgrading my desktop from Precise to Trusty, some icon notifications are not shown anymore. Specifically they are the ones for Gnote and Mail-Notification. How can I get them back? I run Unity desktop environment.
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Why does Thunderbird still play a sound when I receive an email even though I've turned off notifications (on 22.04.1)?

I keep hearing a sound at some irregular interval as I'm using my desktop (running Ubuntu 22.04.1). Finally I notice that I had just received an email in Thunderbird However, I've turned off notifications for Thunderbird over 1 week…
raddevus
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oauth enabled mail checker?

My institution has recently forced all mail clients to use oauth (namely, xoauth2 for MS Exchange). I use mutt as a mail client, and I've reconfigured it to use it, but I'm missing a piece in my mail workflow: a mail checker/notification program. As…
Ivan Fernández
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Get a mail notification whenever anyone connects a storage device

I'm working in a Linux-based environment where there are more than 100 servers. I need to get a mail notification and popup notification whenever anyone connects a storage device. How do I configure that?
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