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Is there a (recommended) way to activate notifications for new mails with Ubuntu 18.04 and Thunderbird (POP3 not IMAP)?

I've found some guides in the net, but they are all for older versions of Ubuntu or marked as deprecated or experimental. And the gnome online account app does not support POP3 (only IMAP).

Thanks in advance :-)

sjuk
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I recommend to try MailNag.

An extensible mail notification daemon

Mailnag is a daemon program that checks POP3 and IMAP servers for new mail.
On mail arrival it performs various actions provided by plugins.
Mailnag comes with a set of desktop-independent default plugins for visual/sound notifications, script execution etc. and can be extended with additional plugins easily.

You can install it from official PPA with:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pulb/mailnag
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mailnag

If you need intergration with desktop then

  • for GNOME Shell install gnome-shell-mailnag

    sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-mailnag

  • if you use GNOME Online Accounts in GNOME Shell then install mailnag-goa-plugin

    sudo apt-get install mailnag-goa-plugin

  • for modern Unity, MATE, Xfce, Pantheon Elementary install mailnag-messagingmenu-plugin

    sudo apt-get install mailnag-messagingmenu-plugin

  • for Cinnamon use instruction from mailnagapplet.

Note: Some packages are currently not available for 18.04 LTS, but I have contacted the developer to fix this problem.

N0rbert
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You can install MailSpring from ubuntu software

Ucdemir
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