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Google Releases Gmail Notifier

Posted by michael on from the service-with-a-smile dept.

Philipp Lenssen writes "After several unofficial, screen-scraping Gmail utilities, Google now released the official Gmail Notifier (Beta) for Windows. It will sit in the Windows tray, alerting you of new emails in your account (if you are lucky enough to have one already). Additionally, the Gmail Notifier can connect 'mailto:'-links in web pages to Gmail."

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  1. new mail notification sound by ack154 · · Score: 4, Informative

    From the FAQ, it also says that it can play a sound when new mail arrives. And that sound is actually just the Windows New Mail Notification sound in the Control Panel.

    And it's been mentioned before, but I still think the Gmail Loader is still a handy utility. I'm migrating a lot of my mail and accounts in to Gmail and this thing was a huge help.

    1. Re:new mail notification sound by ack154 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yes, it does still have that limitation. And yes, it does seem to be on the Gmail side and I'm pretty sure there isn't much that can be done about it (short of Gmail making an import mail utility to function correctly).

      But ya, it does kind of suck. But when I imported my stuff, I'm just importing old mail and I really don't care what the date is (for searching or not) - because if I want to refer to any of it, I'll just be searching by it's content.

  2. GTRAY by Yo+Grark · · Score: 5, Informative

    Gtray has been working FABULOUSLY for me.

    Don't need to switch unless there are more options that google can provide; which from the website there isn't any.

    http://torrez.us/gtray

    Yo Grark

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  3. FireFox extension by GizmoToy · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've been using something similar as an extension to FireFox. It works pretty darn well, but you obviously have to keep your web browser open for it to work. This program might be pretty cool, I'll have to give it a shot.

    For those interested, the Firefox extension can be found here:
    Gmail Notifier

  4. For Mac users by jdwest · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mac users have this http://homepage.mac.com/carsten.guenther/GmailStat us/ as a freeware option.

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  5. Gmail Notifier by Stypen · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is something that has been in the fires for a while for Firefox users. Doron Rosenberg authored an extension that allows the same functionality. You can find it here.

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  6. Re:How long.... by Tranzig · · Score: 4, Informative

    What about the gmail notifier Firefox extension?

  7. Re:How long.... by Mickut · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is already a Mozilla (and Firefox) extension for this, GMail Notifier (homepage http://www.nexgenmedia.net/extensions/). It works with both the Linux and windows versions of the browser.

  8. Re:Why not a small Java app? by bygimis · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can indeed put a Java app in the Windows system tray. The same code will also put it in the Gnome system tray in Linux for example - all part of the Java Desktop open source tools at;

    http://community.java.net/javadesktop/

  9. Re:How long.... by buchan232 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hey, THANK YOU. This works great, one little problem, your link goes to an old version. Here http://nexgenmedia.net/extensions/ is the developers page for the latest version. The version you link to has issues but once I updated it works perfectly.