CheckMails - System tray unread mail checker

CheckMails periodically looks for unread mails and displays the total number of unread mails in the system tray icon. Several mailboxes can be configured. The number of unread mails for each mailbox is detailed in a notification that appears when clicking on the icon and after a check. This application supports only the IMAP protocol with SSL encryption. The connection information for each mailbox is stored in an encrypted file using a master password.

CheckMails is designed for Linux. It is written in Python 3 and relies mostly upon Tk GUI toolkit.

Install

• Archlinux

  CheckMails is available on AUR.

• Ubuntu

  CheckMails is available in the PPA ppa:j-4321-i/ppa.

  $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:j-4321-i/ppa
  $ sudo apt-get update
  $ sudo apt-get install checkmails
  

• Source code

  First, install the missing dependencies among:

  • Tkinter (Python wrapper for Tk)
  • libnotify and a notification server if your desktop environment does not provide one. (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_notifications for more details)
  • PyCryptodome (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycryptodome) or PyCrypto (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycrypto)
  • Pillow https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow

  You also need to have at least one of the following GUI toolkits for the system tray icon:

  • Tktray https://code.google.com/archive/p/tktray/downloads
  • PyGTK http://www.pygtk.org/downloads.html
  • PyQt5, PyQt4 or PySide

  For instance, in Ubuntu/Debian you will need to install the following packages: python3-tk, tk-tktray (or python3-gi or python3-pyqt5), libnotify and the notification server of your choice, python3-crypto, python3-pil

  In Archlinux, you will need to install the following packages: tk, tktray (AUR) (or python-gobject or python-pyqt5), libnotify and the notification server of your choice, python-pycryptodome, python-pillow

  Then install the application:

  $ sudo python3 setup.py install
  

You can now launch it from Menu > Network > CheckMails. You can launch it from the command line with checkmails. In this last case, you will see the messages printed every time a process is lauched or finished and when an error is encountered. Therefore you can check that everything works fine.

Troubleshooting

Several gui toolkits are available to display the system tray icon, so if the icon does not behave properly, try to change toolkit, they are not all fully compatible with every desktop environment.

If there is a problem with the font of the number of unread mails, try to change the font from the settings.

If you encounter bugs or if you have suggestions, please open an issue on GitHub or write me an email at <[email protected]>.