reddit-mail-notify
Status bar icon and popup notification for new reddit messages. Completely unofficial.
Features
- Polls for new mail every minute
- Mail icon on your status bar, just like on the website
- Icon changes color when you have new messages
- Tooltip shows how many new messages there are, and reminds you who you're logged in as
- Left click icon to take you to your mailbox. Right click to go to your user page
Usage
python reddit-mail-notify.py [--multi]
The --multi flag turns on multiprocess support, in case you want to run other PRAW programs alongside it. Run praw-multiprocess to start the PRAW request server.
To specify accounts to check you need to make an accounts.cfg file. Each line in the file represents one user. First you put the username, then an equals sign (=), then the password (which may safely contain more equals signs). If you want modmail checked instead of regular messages, put an exclamation mark (!) before the username.
The complete file might look something like this:
!modguy123445=this-is-my-password
modguy123445=this-is-my-password
some_other_acnt=logmeinplox
This will check both modmail and normal mail of /u/modguy123445 and normal mail of /u/some_other_acnt.
Dependencies
(Versions indicate what it was developed with.)
- Python (2.7.3)
- PRAW for reddit interaction (2.1.16)
- PyGTK for status bar icon (2.24.0)
- PyNotify for popup messages (0.1.1)