bbmail software package provides Mail notifier for Blackbox/Fluxbox, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install bbmail
bbmail is installed in your system.
Make ensure the bbmail package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep bbmail *
You will get with bbmail package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | |
| Package | bbmail |
| Version | 0.8.3-6ubuntu2 |
| Description | Mail notifier for Blackbox/Fluxbox |
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