[Evolution] using gkrellm to monitor evolution mailboxes

[Chris Campbell]

I'd just like to second Rich's statement... I'm in the exact same
situation.

--Chris


On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 19:41, Rich Rudnick wrote:
> I'm now using evolution 0.14, and will probably settle on it after using
> balsa, sylpheed, mutt, and a couple other MUAs.  It's more than
> satisfactorily fast on a 466 celeron.  The only problem I have is email
> reception notification.  
> 
> I've been using gkrellm to monitor my mailboxes. It was very convenient
> to have a list of mailboxes showing new mail counts in gkrellm, which I
> keep 'sticky'. However, when I point gkrellm's mailcheck at an evolution
> mbox, it reports that all messages, including read messages, as new. I
> tried gbuffy as well, and had the same results.
> 
> Is there something that will provide the functionality?  I get really
> wrapped up in things sometimes, and forget to switch to the viewport I
> keep evolution on to check for important mail. Having a mailcheck
> program of some type always in front of me means I only occasionally
> miss time-sensitive messages, especially from my boss :)