PopTray Minus - An E-Mail Client For The System Tray

PopTray Minus is a notification area application for checking and notifying of new mail in your web account(s).

A Linux port of the Windows application of the same name, the application is surprisingly feature-filled with options to use multiple accounts at once, 'preview' messages from your entire inbox, delete unwanted messages and use filtering based on 'from/to/subject'.

All in all - a mini mail client for your panel! Setting up an account in PopTray Minus Setting up GMail - or any other webmail account for that matter - is easy. 1. On first run the settings window will open. You can also add a new account by right-clicking the tray applet and choosing 'Settings'

2. Enter a name for the account - this can be anything you like - but make it easy to identify which account it is for. 3. Choose the POP3 'type'. Most webmail services require the use of POP3 SSL. 4. Enter your webmails pop3 server. Some popular webmail service pop servers are:

• GMail: pop.gmail.com
• HotMail/LiveMail: pop3.live.com
• AOL: pop.aol.com

6. The port should automatically set itself to '995', if it doesn't you can set it manually. 7. Enter in your username, including the '@webmailaddress.com' bit, and your password. 8. Finally, set an update interval for the application to check for new mails. 9. If you want to set filters you can enter them now 10. Click 'Ok' to save the changes and have the application search for mail.

Guide to entering settings in PopTray Minus; click to view larger

Download gnomefiles.org/poptrayminus_1.2_all.deb Install Simply double-click the .deb file to install. The application can then be launched from the menu entry located in Applications > Internet > PopTray Minus

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Anjal - Slick Evolution Interface For Netbooks

Anjai is a custom Evolution interface designed for use on netbooks, with it's main screen optimized for 1024x600 sized screens.

 

 

ROFL! Useless Trivia!

Anjal means E-Mail in Tamil.

Stylish (and useful!)
Using WebKit for its mail rendering and composing makes Anjal look very slick.

It has big small-screen friendly buttons for navigating the vitals. Uses tabbed browsing to display messages and in-boxes, has thread support (yay GMail!) as well as multi-account usage.

The preference options are basic - merely consisting of account config, but most important mail-sorting features can be found and configured in the main interface. (i..e Mail Sorting, etc)

Get it

If you're using Karmic you can install Anjal through the software centre. Just search for 'Anjal', or in a terminal: -

• sudo apt-get install anjal

Jaunty & Ibex

You'll need to build it from source, sadly. Never fear as the tutorial on the official site is easy peasy!

• http://live.gnome.org/Anjal/Installation

./Notes 

• It calls itself 'Email' in the Internet menu.
• Anjal is slightly too wide for 7" netbooks, but still perfectly useable.
• It does need Evolution installed.
• Official site @ http://live.gnome.org/Anjal/
  

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Is Spicebird The Best Desktop E-Mail Client?

SpiceBird is a desktop E-Mail application that combines E-Mail, Instant Messaging, Calendar, Task management and an iGoogle gadgets in one application.

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