On supported services, Adium can notify you when you receive new email on the address associated with your account. Adium will not notify of email for any other email account; Adium is not a mail client and does not intend to replace one.

Adium supports mail notification for:

• AOL accounts
• AIM accounts with AIM Mail

To enable mail checking

• double click your account in the Accounts pane of the Preferences window,
• click the Options tab
• check Check for New Mail.