Gnome Mail Notification Applet Mail Notification monitors your mailboxes for new mail. When new mail arrives, Mail Notification alerts you by displaying an icon in the notification area. Highly configurable, and compatible with most mail back-ends and mailbox typtes (mbox, MH, Evolution) http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/ Requires libnotify, libgnome, and rarian, available at SlackBuilds.org