Gnome Gmail

About

Gnome Gmail is software which adds support for Gmail to the Linux Gnome Desktop. It allows Gmail to be selected as the default mail application for the desktop. Unlike other solutions on the net, Gnome Gmail supports "To:", "Subject:", "body", "CC:", and "BCC: fields, and is available in deb and rpm format.

Download and Installation

gnome-gmail_1.3-1_all.deb - For Ubuntu and Debian systems

gnome-gmail-1.3-1.noarch.rpm - For Fedora and Red Hat systems

Download the appropriate package for your system, and double-click to install.

Go to System -> Preferences ->Preferred Applications, and select Gmail as the preferred Mail Reader.

From Firefox, select "Send Link..." to demonstrate. The page link will open in a Gmail browser window.

Resources

Already have a GMail mailto: script? Test it. Does this link give you something that looks like this?

Need a "Send Link" bookmarklet for your browser? Drag this to the Bookmarks Bar. Send Link

Support

... such as it is, is available from the SourceForge support page.

Developer

Developer resources are available at the Gnome Gmail developer page. In particular, translation assistance is needed for the Gnome application XML file.

Upstream Credits

This is derived from the gnome-gmail shell script, written by Matthew C Ruschmann, who in turn adapted from ymail, by David L Norris.