Comments on: Gmail and Windows. I want to be notified when new mail comes in.

Question: Gmail and Windows. I want to be notified when new mail comes in.

vraxoin — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:16:01 -0800

gmail: i've been using it for a few weeks now and have made it my primary e-mail repository. The only thing it lacks for me, though, is the ability to be notified (on the Windows desktop) when new mail comes in. Anyone aware of software to handle this task?

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:25:12 -0800

Take your pick: there are quite a slew of them on NoNags.

By: falconred

falconred — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:44:26 -0800

POP Goes the GMail?

By: mfbridges

mfbridges — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:50:21 -0800

Gmail won't work out of the box with any of those notification programs on NoNags. You would need to install Pop goes the Gmail to get pop3 access to gmail, then point one of those notification programs at PGtGM.

By: mfbridges

mfbridges — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:51:27 -0800

Actually, PGtGM will do the notification itself....what falconred said.

By: treebjen

treebjen — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:08:07 -0800

GTray by Elias Torres is a little icon that sits in your system tray and alerts you to new gmail(checks at a user-defined interval).

By: bonaldi

bonaldi — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:26:15 -0800

Anything like it for Mac?

By: ralawrence

ralawrence — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:29:31 -0800

"Pop goes the GMail" requires the .Net runtimes which makes it a big download. The "GTray" website doesn't seem to work either.

I'm a pretty reasonable programmer and will happily write one if someone gives me an account :)

By: cowboy

cowboy — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:03:19 -0800

I use FireFox as my browser with Gmail and when new mail comes in, the tab changes to Gmail - Inbox (#) when I have new messages. Just a thought.

By: heather

heather — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:27:15 -0800

ie 6 pc -- i get a notification in the task bar
"Gmail - Inbox (x) ..."