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Get Gmail alerts on Ubuntu without a dedicated mail client

Pigeon Email Notifier is a GNOME Shell extension that does one thing: show a desktop notification when new mail arrives in your Gmail, Microsoft Outlook or IMAP webmail account. If you don't want to leave a webmail tab open in Firefox, the overhead of a desktop email app like Thunderbird, or your provider doesn't offer a desktop Linux app (like Fastmail and Proton Mail now do), Pigeon provides a set-and-forget way to still get new mail alerts. Desktop email notifiers have been around for a long time. I've written about many standalone tools, like Unity Mail, Popper and Mail Nag over [...]

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Categories: News, email, GNOME Extensions
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/gnome-email-notifier-gmail-outlook Mar 07, 2026, 06:07 AM