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I have Ubuntu Mate 20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa) 64-bit. Please advise me how to be notified on my e-mails without continuously checking out e-mail boxes. Thank you.

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    Please [edit] your question to say which email client you are using - for example, I use Thunderbird and I receive notifications in the top bar of any emaiis received, software updates etc. – graham Oct 03 '20 at 16:46
  • What you need is this list from the Arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications#Mail_notifiers – Spixmaster Oct 06 '20 at 10:31

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Good things to try are:

  • MailNag (fork of Popper), it is installable by

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

  • Mozilla Thunderbird with BirdTray, installable by

    sudo apt-get install thunderbird birdtray

    BirdTray minimizes Thunderbird on start and then monitor its mail folders to indicate number of new e-mails and show notification about new mails.

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    Evolution, the standard GNOME e-mail client, also informs about incoming mails via notifications. There is also an additional package, `evolution-indicator`, that displays notifications even when Evolution application is not currently running. – raj Oct 03 '20 at 18:59
  • @raj your comment seems like an answer. Would you care to post it as one? – Zanna Oct 06 '20 at 11:11
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Evolution, the standard GNOME e-mail client, also informs about incoming mails via notifications. There is also an additional package, evolution-indicator, that displays notifications even when Evolution application is not currently running.

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  • I use alltray with evolution for the mail indicator as it hasn't worked properly for me in Ubuntu 16 and 18 – rtaft Oct 06 '20 at 18:40