Mailnag is a daemon program that checks POP3 and IMAP servers for new mail.
On mail arrival it performs various actions provided by plugins.
By default, Mailnag issues libnotify notifications, which work fine on most desktop environments.
Mailnag comes with a set of desktop-independent default plugins for visual/sound notifications, script execution etc. and can be extended with additional plugins.
Key Features
- Support for mbox and maildir backend.
- Support for IMAP-Push notifications.
- Support for CRAM-MD5 auth
- STARTTLS support for pop3 accounts.
- Support for UTF-7 folder decoding.
- GNOME-Software integration with support for notification settings in GNOME-Control-Center.
- GNOME Online Accounts integration
- libnotify plugin.
- Support for platform-specific credential (login password) backends.
- Account assistants for popular email providers like Gmail.
- DBUS service (for remote control/integration in other apps).
- Plugin system offering simple extensibility.
- Logging.
- Enable SSL by default.
- Explicit SSL encryption.
- Internationalization support.
Website: github.com/pulb/mailnag
Support:
Developer: Patrick Ulbrich
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Mailnag is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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