Best Mail Checker?


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Hi,

I don't have a mac yet but am looking at getting a Macbook Pro once the next updated ones come out. One thing I find really handy in Windows is being able to use Digsby to notify me if I get any emails in my Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts. It sits quietly next to the clock with nice icons for each mailbox which light up when a new email arrives and pops up with the subject and sender, you can also mark it as read or delete it etc from the notification.

I realise that Digsby is in development of OS X but it is not out yet, I've also seen quite a few different apps for checking individual accounts but not one app that will check all. Are there any that are out now that I could use to simply check all accounts at once?Or is there one already built in to the OS?

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How about Mail.app? Its built in, it supports POP3, IMAP and MSE2007.. and maybe some other stuff.

It will just make a sound and a badge appears on the icon with a number telling you how many new emails you have. It's one of my favourite things about Mac OS X.

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How about Mail.app? Its built in, it supports POP3, IMAP and MSE2007.. and maybe some other stuff.

It will just make a sound and a badge appears on the icon with a number telling you how many new emails you have. It's one of my favourite things about Mac OS X.

I think there's a plugin to make it use Growl and pop up a notification.

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I think there's a plugin to make it use Growl and pop up a notification.

Yes, it's called GrowlMail. It's a bit old but should work fine, I'll give it try in the Mail app on Snow Leopard tonight when I get home.

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does that notify work for anythin other then gmail? cuz i only see gmail stuff on the website

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Should be pretty self-explanatory :)

edit: Doesn't work for Hotmail (no imap), but no clue for Yahoo...

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Mail.app works with Hotmail a bit...problem is Hotmail still uses POP3 for some reason instead of IMAP, so it'll mark new messages as unread even if you've read them elsewhere.

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Thanks for the replies everyone. It's a shame that there isn't really a simple solution, I guess I can start getting my hotmail emails forwarded to my gmail account. I was just trying to avoid it if possible that's all. :)

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Mail.app works with Hotmail a bit...problem is Hotmail still uses POP3 for some reason instead of IMAP, so it'll mark new messages as unread even if you've read them elsewhere.

That's the problem, I want something that will either just notify me or something that will sync

Webmail Notifier on FF works great but I just switched to Chrome and it doesn't have an extension like that :(

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