Showing posts with label gmail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gmail. Show all posts

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Email notifier for multiple GMail accounts

In Synaptic Manager, install the package checkgmail
Installing it in Ubuntu 9.10 fetches its latest version 1.13+svn43-0ubuntu1.

These steps demonstrate setting up 2 gmail accounts for checkgmail to notify you with:
1. Set up your first, and default profile
Applications > Internet > CheckGMail

2. After that works, quit checkgmail to setup your 2nd profile.

3. Open a terminal window, and type the following, replacing the my2nd word with your preferred profile name:
checkgmail -profile=my2nd

4. After that works, quit checkgmail again.

5. To make the two checkgmail profiles to automatically start at boot-up,
System > Preferences > Startup Applications
Click Add to add your default profile.

sources of the bits and pieces I put together for this post:
1. how to check emails for multiple gmail accounts - ubuntu thread
2. how to make checkgmail automatically startup in ubuntu (not the exact steps, but heck I got the pattern)