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# Mailnag

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mailnag is a Wayland e-mail notification daemon. It integrates well with mako and libnotify and comes with interactive configuration tooling, making setup very straight-forward.

## Installation

mailnag can be installed with the mailnag package.

Note You may also want to install gnome-keyring to satisfy the needed `org.freedesktop.secrets` service file.

## Configuration

Run `mailnag-config` to create an initial configuration at `~/.config/mailnag/mailnag.cfg`.

## Usage

Users can run mailnag from within a shell while running a Wayland or Xorg session, given that a notification daemon is running.

Note mailnag needs to be able to access a valid dbus session to communicate with a notification back-end.

## Autostart

mailnag supports XDG Autostart out of the box. A systemd user service example has been included below as another option.

### systemd user unit

Users will probably want to run mailnag in a systemd unit. Provided below is an example user unit where user id is the numeric ID of the user where this service is installed.

    ~/.config/system/user/mailnag.service

    [Unit]
    Description=Mailnag notification service

    [Service]
    ExecStart=/usr/bin/mailnag

    [Install]
    WantedBy=default.target

Then start `mailnag.service`.

### XDG

The mailnag package provides a `/usr/share/applications/mailnag.desktop` file for use with XDG Autostart that is supported by various desktop environments.

## See also

- GitHub project
- Changelog

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