On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 17:20:17 -0500
Richard Jasmin <frazzledj...@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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