Get Notified in Firefox about new mail
I don;t keep Thunderbird, my email client, open all the time and don;t like to visit websites of webmail accounts as well. It is a pain in the *** to visit gmail, hotmail or yahoo mail to see if there is new mail in the inbox. I was using the gmail firefox extension to get a notification if new mail did arrive.
Mailman is a firefox extension that is able to get that information from gmail, hotmail, yahoo and pop3. Mailman adds itself to a toolbar and displays a message if new mail did arrive. You will have to add your login details to the extension to be able to do so. I do understand that this raises security concerns but this is the trade off.
Mailman has some additional nice features. Once you see that new mail did arrive you may click on the link and will be directly taken to the mail account using an auto-login feature. Right, you do not need to login a second time. You may define the update frequency and add sound alerts if you like. (I would never use sound alerts because I would hear a constant sound then, with all the spam that is flodding my mail boxes.
It also offers a search function to search your accounts from within firefox. Some users seemed to have problems with hotmail. I do not have a hotmail account, maybe someone else could verify if problems exist ?
Author: Martin Brinkmann
Get Notified in Firefox about new mail
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