I’m looking for a recommendation for a good, nice and working solution to check my mailboxes within KDE Neon.
I don’t need a thick client like KMail or Thunderbird. Just to check periodically my mailboxes.
Any experiences / feedback to share?
I can’t speak to Outlook but you could grab the WebCatalog appimage and install Gmail from it for your Gmail. You might then be able to go into Outlook and simple have it forward you email to your Gmail account.
Thanks but that’s not the best way just to check incoming mails. It’s a bit of a DIY… This method of forwarding Outlook emails to GMail and checking them through an Appimage is like scratching your right ear with your left hand passing over your head… not very professional 
. Good joke. It made me laugh. 
Honestly I think you need to have a phone to be properly connected…
Though on KDE Plasma I do like Mailspring… I generally just fire it up when I want to check mail and then close it down.
That’s pure BS and you know it. Next time just make your own suggestion and don’t play smartass cause NO ONE likes one ESPECIALLY when they’re trying to help you for FREE.
Ben as for Mailspring I looked at that several years back and was not impressed.
Sorry to have offended you but what you proposed to me does not correspond at all to the request that I made.
What I am looking for is an light app “email received notifier” and not a fully featured mail app, working in the background or notification, that just checks if I have received an email on GMail or Outlook.
To then open the mails, I can use the WEB browser (as usual).
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That better explains what you’re looking for. Thanks
There is this I found so far. Not sure how you would go about installing and setting up for Neon.
Thanks for understanding.
Popper meet my needs but it’s quite old and not updated since 2012.
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Like Ben said, should work with your phone. I could be wrong, but I don’t think there are (currently) standalone notifiers around that work on kde.
On a sidenote: It’s not a notifier, but you could make an ssb or a browser app that resides in the menu or on a panel. It doesn’t notify but it’s a quick access.
Edit: just noticed the typo in the screenshot. Should be ssB, not ssD.
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I had a similar requirement. In the end I just wrote a python script. I only have to query one imap server, so it wasn’t too complicated. I used notify-send.py to raise each email as a standard desktop notification (I reuse the same notification popup for all of them). I setup the script as a systemd timer and it periodically checks for new emails (it caches a list of those already notified).
Perhaps a bash script utilizing something like fetchmail might be able to do the same thing with less code (I was just curious about python’s abilities to decode emails, plus I’d been writing a lot of python at the time).
I thought about creating a plasmoid that showed a markdown sender/subject list - but I’m currently clueless about plasmoids. Is there already a plasmoid that can display a named markdown file and refresh the display when the file changes? Such a plasmoid could enable all kinds of simple displays, included displaying a mail-summary feed?
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Very interesting.
The bad is I’m not a dev and new to Linux. So, I will not be able to develop by myself such a plasmoid add-on.