Overview

	Mail Notification monitors your mailboxes for new mail. When new mail arrives, Mail Notification alerts you by displaying an icon in the notification area. Moreover, a mail summary can be displayed in the icon tooltip, a sound can be played, and notifications containing useful action buttons can be popped up.
	Mail Notification can monitor multiple mailboxes concurrently, and supports Evolution, Gmail, IMAP, Maildir, mbox, MH, Mozilla products (Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, …), POP3, Sylpheed, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail mailboxes. Moreover, since Mail Notification uses GnomeVFS, it transparently supports remote (SSH, HTTP, …) and compressed mailboxes.
	Mail Notification supports advanced POP3 and IMAP features such as SSL/TLS connections (in-band or on separate port), SASL and APOP authentication, and the IMAP IDLE extension.
	Mail Notification is configurable. While its user interface is purposedly kept simple and straightforward, advanced users are provided with ways to run commands in reaction to events, customize the popup buttons, obtain a XML message list, modify the appearance of the application, and so on.
	When a mailbox supports it, Mail Notification listens for changes reported by the mailbox rather than polling it periodically. This mode of operation provides immediate notification of changes and reduces the system and network resources used by Mail Notification.
	Mail Notification pays attention to detail. The source code is clean, secure, portable and adheres to standards (such as POP3 and IMAP). The interface is simple, functional, respects the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines and integrates well into the GNOME Desktop Environment (thoughMail Notification can also be used with KDE, Xfce and other environments).
	Mail Notification is free software, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Install mail-notification

Installing mail-notification package on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) is as easy as running the following command on terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mail-notification

mail-notification package information

distro	Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
section	Universe
name	mail-notification
version	5.4.dfsg.1-14build1
description	mail notification in system tray
subsection	gnome
website	nongnu.org / mailnotify /
maintainer	Ubuntu Developers

Uninstall mail-notification

To remove just mail-notification package itself from Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) execute on terminal:

sudo apt-get remove mail-notification

Uninstall mail-notification and it’s dependent packages

To remove the mail-notification package and any other dependant package which are no longer needed from Ubuntu Xenial.

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove mail-notification

Purging mail-notification

If you also want to delete configuration and/or data files of mail-notification from Ubuntu Xenial then this will work:

sudo apt-get purge mail-notification

To delete configuration and/or data files of mail-notification and it’s dependencies from Ubuntu Xenial then execute:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove mail-notification