I need an email checking program that works in mint 10

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I have spent hours now installing programs from the mint software manager, non of them work.

I need a program that checks all my email accounts and lets me know if I have new emails.

Anyone know of a reliable program for mint 10.

Thanks in advance.

2

You don’t mention what you’ve already tried so those applications aren’t duplicated in responses… it might also be helpful to describe what you don’t like about applications you’ve already tried :slight_smile:

Have you tried gnubiff it should be available in the repos ?

3

Hi, this program seems to be working OK.

Other programs tried - maildrop, mailcheck, mail-notification and wmmail they just did not work.

Thanks for your help.

4

:slight_smile: … and just in case you’re wondering about the gnubiff name (which you probably weren’t) -

The GNU part is fairly obvious… and BIFF… biff is a UNIX command line mail notifier.

Source:
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/unixhelp/didyou/biff.html

5

Can’t you just install something like Evolution Mail? or Thunderbird? Or are those not written for Mint yet? :o

6

He didn’t need an email client as such… he wanted an email notifier, that would notify him of mail arriving in multiple email accounts on different servers, when the client wasn’t running :slight_smile:

7

Yes that’s quit correct ; I use Thunderbird and have done so for some years after another free client from New Zeeland went along the paid route.

Thanks for the info.