Is there any mail notification utility for Mac ?

QuorthonRhar · #1 November 24th, 2007, 09:57 AM

Hello you wonderful forum people !

I have another little question... I used to use POP Peeper, great little utility that basically sits in your system tray and constantly checking incoming emails to limitless number or account. It supports Gmail, Hotmail, any POP3 account... Since I use more than just one email account (gmail, hotmail and few pop3 accounts) this utility was unbelievable useful to me. Application has no effect on system resources because it is unbelievable light, you don't even know it exists. You can set its times so for example, it can check for new emails every X minutes. There are nice notifications, and audio notifications by your choice. You can set a different sound for each account, so when you are watching your TV or something, when you hear that sound in the background, you know which account you just got email into. OK, I don't need all these bells and whistles, but I do need something that would sit in my taskbar and check emails for me. Some will think why is this needed when you can have your Apple Mail open all the time and let it check emails for you... well, because... Apple Mail will automatically download all emails, SPAM or not SPAM, and we don't want that, especially if we get a lot of junk emails to some account. POP Peeper has a wonderful feature and that's when it shows you what emails just arrived to your inbox, you could simply mark them and "tell" it to erase them while they're still on the server... they don't even rich your mailbox on your local computer, avoiding flooding your mailbox.

Is there anything similar for Mac ? I know about Gmail notifier, but that one will check Gmail account only.

Thanks in advance and have a wonderful day everybody !

zo219 · #2 November 25th, 2007, 05:05 AM

There are any number of mail checkers for Mail, depending on what functions you want. Growl has Mail notifications... try searching http://www.macupdate.com ... But it also sounds as though you want IMAP mail instead of POP....

QuorthonRhar · #3 November 25th, 2007, 09:50 AM

Thank you for your respond!

I am not sure how IMAP works, but all I know is that POP Peeper on Windows, you just have to set up your POP3 accounts exactly the same way you usually set them inside your Mail client (Outlook Express or Thunderbird) and POP Peeper does everything for you... sorry for my ignorance when it comes to this part.

But other than that, yes... I need something that would just give me some kind of notification when an email hits my inbox. I don't want to download it, just to be able to see when something came in, so I can open my Apple Mail and check newly arrived emails.

Another question... since I am newly Mac convert from PC Windows machine, in your opinion, which one is better... Apple Mail (Leopard) or Mozilla Thunderbird ? I used to use TB in Windows, but I do like some features Apple Mail offers... however, I've noticed when you have to create a new mail, TB offers a lot more text editing options. Just curious what Mac users think about this one...

Thanks again I really appreciate you took some time to answer my questions. Thanks!

charlich · #4 November 25th, 2007, 07:28 PM

Currently there is Growl and Mail.application. Neither which have worked for me with Leopard. Tried work arounds and no luck. Seems weird that such an everyday app seems so hard to come by.....

ElDiabloConCaca · #5 November 26th, 2007, 02:11 PM

Growl with the GrowlMail plug-in work great in notifying me of new messages for any of my accounts (various POP. IMAP and .Mac) in Mail.app.

Growl doesn't support Mail.app "out-of-the-box" (er, vice-versa -- Mail.app doesn't support Growl natively), so you need to grab the GrowlMail plug-in to use with Growl from here:

http://growl.info/applications.php

Of course, the mail has already arrived and has been downloaded when you get the Growl notification -- which doesn't exactly meet your specific needs, but is the best I can come up with at the moment.

QuorthonRhar · #6 November 26th, 2007, 08:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ElDiabloConCaca

Growl with the GrowlMail plug-in work great in notifying me of new messages for any of my accounts (various POP. IMAP and .Mac) in Mail.app.

Growl doesn't support Mail.app "out-of-the-box" (er, vice-versa -- Mail.app doesn't support Growl natively), so you need to grab the GrowlMail plug-in to use with Growl from here:

http://growl.info/applications.php

Of course, the mail has already arrived and has been downloaded when you get the Growl notification -- which doesn't exactly meet your specific needs, but is the best I can come up with at the moment.

Thank you so much for this advice ! Yes, I'll keep this in mind and if I don't find anything similar to POP Peeper (or Mail Washer for that matter), I'll use this... at least it will give me some nice notifications when mail has arrived.

Thank you again for taking some time to answer my question and explain this in details, I really appreciate it.

Cheers!

charlich · #7 November 26th, 2007, 10:00 PM

Where do I get the plugin for Growl. I went to the link you provided but don't know where to go from there....Please explain. Thanks.

Satcomer · #8 November 27th, 2007, 12:41 AM

Click on the fancy Growl word (on the lined page) in the top left hand corner. It will take you to the splash page that has a download link on it.