CheckGmail

CheckGmail is an alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux and other *nix systems. It is fast, secure and uses minimal bandwidth via the use of Atom feeds.

CheckGmail is a system tray application that checks a Gmail account for new mail. When new mail is present the tray icon changes, an optional animated popup is displayed and a tooltip displays the number and details of new messages.

Configuration is GUI-based and the application is designed to be simple, elegant and unobtrusive.

It is written in Perl.

CheckGmail 1.13

Price Free to download Size 0.05MB License GNU General Public License v2 Developer Owen Marshall Website checkgmail.sourceforge.net System Requirements Perl modules: Gtk2-perl Gtk2-TrayIcon libwww-perl Crypt-SSLeay XML-Simple Optional: Crypt-Simple and associated modules (Compress-Zlib, Crypt-Blowfish and FreezeThaw) to encrypt password Gtk v.26 and Gtk2-perl bindings to change the tray icon images Support Sites: CheckGmail FAQ, Mailing List, Forums Selected Reviews: FOSSwire

Features include:

• Small, fast and elegant
• Open messages, mark as read, archive, delete, or report as spam directly from the popup window
• Get and display the full text of messages in the notification window
  Supports multiple languages
  Currently translated into Biełlaruskaja łacinka, Català, Čeština, Dansk, Deutsch, Español, Français, hrvatski, Italiano, Македонски, Magyar, Nederlands, Norsk, 日本語, Polski, Português, Português (Brasil), Romană, Slovenčina, Slovenščina, Suomi, Svenska, Русский, தமிழ், and 简体中文
• Can be run in multiple instances to check different mail accounts
• Can run commands (eg play a sound, turn on a LED) when new mail is present
  
• Supports Gmail hosted domains
• Optional password security
• Supports KDE's KDE Wallet password storage database, via a script
• Supports proxy servers

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Last Updated Sunday, August 09 2009 @ 04:18 PM EDT