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Step 13 Configure: Email notifications with POP Peeper

For those who don't use Thunderbird as a mail client, another option is to have a small utility like POP Peeper sit in your task tray checking your emails and launching ding.exe when it gets any new ones.  POP Peeper supports IMAP.

POP Peeper has the ability to launch an "E-mail Client" when you get new mail.  We will tell POP Peeper that ding.exe is an "E-mail Client" to make it do our bidding.
1. Download and install POP Peeper from http://download.cnet.com/POP-Peeper/3000-2369_4-10069858.html or http://www.poppeeper.com/ (don't forget to check the "SSL" option during install if you intend to connect to any mail servers via SSL or TLS)

2. Set up the mail accounts that you want to check (or import them).

3. If you're using IMAP, you can have it accept real-time (i.e. Push) email notifications by checking the "Use IDLE" in the account details, otherwise you can change the mail check period in the options.

4. In Options>General, set ding.exe as the email client

5. In Options>Noitification, set "When I receive new Email:" to "Run E-Mail Client"

6. Minimise, sit back and start sending yourself emails.