On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 17:20:17 -0500 Richard Jasmin <frazzledjazz@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: general > Severity: important > > telling user has mail is easy as pi in console mode and when using a server. > But how do we tell the user they have mail without a configured mail client > when under runlevel 5? The activation of X11 practically hides all console > activity. > > We would need a UI tool to do this. We cannot assume use of neither gnome nor > KDE. User may have MATE or other UI installed.We should make an app > indicator(and mail viewer) as lite as possible. > > Also, when launching xterm or similar, user is never told if they have mail or > not.This should be a more eay fix.Since xterm emulates a vterm/getty checking > mail this way should never fail. Have you tried xfce4-mailwatch-plugin?
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