Most people use a webmail, which is an online email service accessible from the web browser. The advantage of a webmail is that from anywhere you connect and also via mobile phone or smartphone you can read your inbox and write new messages to send. The disadvantage is that to find out if there are new messages, you need to connect to the web page of the E-mail service frequently. This is an old-fashioned way of checking e-mail which, for now, doesn't seem to be receiving major innovations from Webmail providers. What is needed is an incoming email notification system that notifies the user if there are unread messages, so as not to be forced to check their account every time on the Libero, Virgilio, Tiscali web pages, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Alice, Hotmail and all the others.
Since many people use multiple E-Mail services, perhaps keeping a Yahoo mailbox as their staff, a Gmail for work and a Libero one for registering on websites or receiving newsletters, it would be convenient to have an automatic notification to be be notified of the arrival of new mail on each of the accounts.
If you use Google Chrome, Opera or Firefox as a browser, the notification solution is at your fingertips thanks to the WebMail Notifier extension.
Receiving notifications of unread messages on the browser does not mean keeping the website of the Webmail used open, but simply being informed of the presence of new messages in the inbox during normal internet browsing.
Those who only use Gmail have different alternatives and possibilities for notifying new Gmail emails which, if you use Google Chrome, also sends notifications with pop-ups.
Those who use other e-mail services, with Google Chrome can install the X-Notifier extension (with manual installation and not from the Chrome Store), with Firefox you can install the equivalent X-Notifier add-on.
This is one of the best and most useful extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Opera because it is extremely configurable and allows you to set up any e-mail service to notify you of new messages on your browser.
Once the extension is installed on the browser used, from the options you simply have to choose, from a drop-down menu, which mail service to add to the automatic notification system.
After writing your login username and password, you can decide how often to check if there are new messages, whether to reset the counter when opening unread messages, whether to warn with a sound, whether to show a pop-up and whether to check. the arrival of new emails every time the browser is opened.
From the e-mail service selection menu, you can choose to add multiple accounts to check, including Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail.
If you want to add another e-mail service not yet included in Webmail Notifier or X-Notifier, you have to press the " Script " button and then, with the Add button, select the configuration file.
This script file must be downloaded from this web page according to your email account.
To download the script, click on the link with the right button and select " save as " from the menu.
In the list there are Italian Email services such as Libero, Virgilio, Fastweb, Alice, Interfree, Excite and Tiscali .
In addition there are also scripts for the notification of messages received on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin .
You can add multiple accounts together and give each of them a nickname (" alias ") to identify them quickly.
When you open Firefox, Chrome or Opera, after setting up one or more accounts, the Webmail Notifier symbol shows the number of unread messages upon receipt of new mail. A popup also appears on Google Chrome at the bottom right. By clicking on the notifier icon, you can choose which webmail to open in a separate browser tab. Since the extension supports auto-login, there will never be a need to enter your login name and password. This X-Notifier is definitely an extension to use if you are browsing with Firefox, Opera or Chrome, and an additional reason to abandon Internet Explorer that does not support these and many other automatic functions that save time and turn the browser into a multipurpose program .
Those who do not use Chrome, Firefox or Opera to surf the internet and want a notifier of unread email messages that is on the desktop, therefore disconnected from the web browser, can install the Pop-Peeper program to receive notifications of new messages on the desktop. - incoming email .
