I don’t use a native email client like Evolution or Thunderbird in Ubuntu, I love my Gmail. Even though I could just use a Notifier extension in Chrome or Firefox, I prefer to get my notifications from the Messaging Menu in the panel of Ubuntu 11.10. Keeping Email and IM’s all in one place, instead of looking at notifiers all over.

If you’d like the same, then just run this command in the Terminal:

sudo apt-get install gm-notify

After that, you will see an entry that says Google Mail in the messaging menu below the Empathy IM options. Click on it, enter your Gmail information and you are good to go!

You can read more about this little beauty here