I am fairly satisfied with Thunderbird as my email app but I do wish I could get PopPeeper (Pp) to run on Linux. I tried running it using Wine. Pp executed just fine & worked just like it works using Windows. However, its GUI at "expanded" size was only 2" wide & the text was almost microscopically small. Nothing I tried could make it any larger. I worked with Pp-on-wine for a while, using a jeweler's loupe with my nose nearly touching the monitor. I could see that Pp was working fine, but the super-tiny size is a definite no-go for any day-to-day use. Any comments regarding the use of wine would be greatly appreciated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I haven't used my Windows computer for nearly a week now. At this stage I am able to do all my daily computer activities using only my Zorin Linux computer. Even so, I am still very much a C-average freshman at Linux Junior High.
@bellgamin this is in Ubuntu, but maybe it will also work in Zorin... https://askubuntu.com/questions/1313791/how-to-increase-font-size-globally-for-programs-running-on-wine-in-ubuntu-20-10
It's worth reading this regarding security. Note that it is possible to sandbox wine with Firejail or confine it with AppArmor. But it's not trivial for a Linux newbie and I'd rather recommend not using it until you're a bit more experienced. EDIT: If it comes to alternatives for PopPeeper, your desktop environment might offer built-in notifications (e.g., KDE does). Thunderbird add-ons which might offer what you want are Mailbox Alert and Scriptable Notifications. The latter looks a bit more difficult to setup but the instructions and ready-to-use scripts on its homepage should be understandable. I haven't tried either of them, though.
@wat0114 -- 10Q ^nth. I read the link & have copied it to my To-Do file. I will give it a full-on try when I graduate to at least sophomore. However, I am getting much more adept at using B-bird (it's a T-bird clone) & its calendar is really handy, atop its pdg email abilities. @summerheat -- Thanks a LOT for the security heads-up! Pp receives & sends mail, checks spam, & checks spelling -- nada mas! It's a plain & simple email app, which is what I prefer. The developer of Pp insists on calling it a "notifier" because it lacks a lot of the bells & whistles & skins & eye candy that "full-service" email clients offer. As for notifications, I did not use PopPeeper (Pp) on Windows for its notifications. In fact, I disabled its notifications feature. I am not a fan of being notified.
Hm, but then I don't understand why you need it. Isn't receiving and sending mails, spam filtering and checking spelling what Thunderbird/Betterbird is already doing?
True what you say -- but B-bird has a other components besides just email -- calendar for example. BUT -- I am learning to love B-bird almost as much as I love the peeper. Even so, I am still aiming to learn more about using Wine for running Windows apps on Linux. Also, I need to learn the use of VirtualBox. So much to do, so little time (at my age, that is).
