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Is there an easy way to set up an email client so you get system notifications in GNOME once you receive an e-mail? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As simple as the title sounds I'm having huge trouble getting that working.

Thunderbird only fetches new mail while it's open.

Who the heck knows how to get evolution/geary to play nice with business gmail/protonmail.

Does anyone have a simple way of solving this problem?

edit. Also, somewhat related, is there a good looking, simple e-mail client? Thunderbird looks busy. Geary kinda looks okay but I cant get it to work at all.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

is there a simple way to get thunderbird to fetch them from the moment I turn the pc on and give me notifications about it?

Sure. You can autostart Thunderbird and keep it open but I haven't found a way, where Thunderbird closes/starts to the tray and for some odd reasons the developers seem to think that users do not need this functionality which makes the whole email client unusable for a large part of the potential user base.

I can get the clients to fetch the e-mail atm, the issue is what I wrote above,

??? You wrote:

Who the heck knows how to get evolution/geary to play nice with business gmail/protonmail.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

the developers seem to think that users do not need this functionality

Weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right, I wasnt as clear as I should have.

As of this second I have all 3 clients I mentioned fetching e-mails while they're open. However none of them fetch e-mails in the background, and geary/evolution seem to just... break sometimes and I have to redo the process to add business gmail/proton accounts to it.

My main issue is the fetching e-mails in the background though, it doesnt feel to me as if it should be something that difficult or niche.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

geary/evolution seem to just… break sometimes

That's weird. I run Geary myself for a couple off accounts and so far it does the job perfectly and without hiccups.

Anyway. You may try birdtray as written in one of the other comments but I'm pretty sure I tried it at least once and for some reasons wasn't convinced. YMMW

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you get background notifications with Geary?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Do you get background notifications with Geary?

Yes. If it helps: I run it under Gnome. Maybe you need some extra service running?! I just checked and on my machine - in addition to Geary - there is the evolution-data-server running among others (evolution-source-registry, evolution-alarm-notify, evolution-calendar-factory, evolution-addressbook-factory).