I use the Unix command /bin/true. If it the return code is 0, I have new email.
But seriously... Since I use Chrome, this plug-in (by Google) is nice because it finds my gmail tab for me when I click on it. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-mail-checker/mihcahmgecmbnbcchbopgniflfhgnkff That isn't exactly what you were looking for, but hope it helps! Tom On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:29 AM, john boris <jbori...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I used to use an app from Google which would notify me when new mail came >> into my Google account. It also was tied into Google Chat and would allow >> folks to know if I was online. I got a new Machine here at $WORK and also >> at home running Windows 7 and now can't find the app. Google says they >> dropped it. Doing a search on Google oddly produces a bunch of links to >> apps not provided by Google. I don't want to keep chrome up constantly to >> have this available. Does anyone have a link to the Google replacement? >> > > Google doesn't have one that is not part of Chrome. I'm using FIPLab's > Alerts for GMail, but it doesn't tie into gchat. (Personally, I'm wondering > how long before gchat becomes web/Chrome-only.) > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > allber...@gmail.com > ballb...@sinenomine.net > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- Email: t...@whatexit.org Work: tlimonce...@stackoverflow.com Skype: YesThatTom Blog: http://EverythingSysadmin.com
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