mail-notification for Debian
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1. Autostarting mail-notification
2. Configuring default mail reader
3. Support for Yahoo! and Hotmail
4. Menu location of mail-notification
5. More information

1. SSL
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SSL support is now enabled; mail-notification's license doesn't
include an exception allowing linking with OpenSSL, but Jean-Yves
Lefort's statements in
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/44335/comments/86 can be taken as
sufficient clarification (see http://bugs.debian.org/286672#68 for
details).

2. Autostarting mail-notification
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In Gnome, use the gnome-session-properties application available in
  Desktop -> Preferences -> Sessions.

3. Configuring default mail reader
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Unexpectedly, configuring the default mail reader in your Gnome Preferred 
Applications will not work. mail-notification uses the following gconf key:
  /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto/command

You may edit it by hand with gconftool-2 or use a graphical editor like
gconf-editor.

4. Support for Yahoo! and Hotmail
---------------------------------
Support for Yahoo! is provided through the fetchyahoo script.
Support for Hotmail is provided through the getlive script.

There are Debian packages for both of them, namely fetchyahoo and getlive.
Simply install them and mail-notification will find and use them.

5. Menu location of mail-notification
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On a Gnome desktop, you can find mail-notification in
Applications -> Internet -> Mail Notification
Preferences are in
Desktop -> Preferences -> Mail Notification.

Note that "Mail Notification" is translated.

On a xfce4 desktop, you can find mail-notification preferences in
Applications -> System -> Mail Notification Preferences.

You can also reach the properties by executing `mail-notification -p'.

6. More information
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More info about mail-notification on: http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/

 -- Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>, Tue,  6 Sep 2011 23:38:53 +0200
