crimulus-dot-com » firefox plugins http://www.crimulus.com A blog; ineptly autobiographical Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:52:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 GoDaddy Webmail eMail Notifier Under WINE in Linux :) http://www.crimulus.com/2009/08/21/godaddy-webmail-email-notifier-under-wine-in-linux/ http://www.crimulus.com/2009/08/21/godaddy-webmail-email-notifier-under-wine-in-linux/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:12:59 +0000 Jeremy http://www.coffeecuphalfmoons.com/?p=151 I use GoDaddy email for my work email, and it is a pain having to remember to check every so often to see if I got mail, especially when I only have new mail about 1 in 20 checks.

I have a notifier for my personal gmail account, and that is very handy — saves me a lot of time checking to see what has come in.

GoDaddy only offers a prepackaged notifier for Windows, however (although they supply a Mac executable if you try to download the notifier under Linux).

I checked the FireFox plugins for a generic webmail notifier, but the best one, WebMail Notifier does not have native support for GoDaddy (email.secureserver.net), and I didn’t feel like spending the time writing a custom script, especially since there is forum activity on this exact subject dating back 2 years, with no easily findable script.

Lo and behold?  The windows notifier works under WINE.  :)

Just download the Windows installer (it was wbensetup_PL.msi for me). Then in a terminal run msiexec /i <path_to_file>/wbensetup_PL.msi

Follow the instructions, and, at least in my Gnome toolbar, a notifier appeared.

Nice.

I should note that my current setup is Ubuntu 8.04 with OpenBox as my window manager, running the gnome toolbar.

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