When you are doing another work by running gmail in background you have to keep it checking now and then to find out whether you have any new mail.So as a solution to it enabling gmail desktop notification is better idea.
When enabled, a pop-up window will appear on your desktop, so even if you’re
not looking at Gmail you can always know if someone is trying to contact you.
Follow the steps below.
Step 1: Goto the gear icon in your Gmail window at right side and select settings.
Step 2: Search for General tab.
Step 3: Now search for Desktop Notifications option below General Tab.
Step 4: There you can select your preferences like "New notification On , important notification or mail notification Off".
Step 5: save your changes.
Now you will be able to get a desktop notification of your mails as per the preferences enabled by you
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