- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
- Date added: October 13, 2009
- Total Downloads: 55,668
- Downloads last week: 223
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 41 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This simple, free tool alerts you when you've got mail in your Gmail account. The novice-friendly Gmail Notifier is easy to install and set up, requiring only your username and password. A small white envelope is placed in your system tray. It's easy to see when new e-mail arrives, and a pop-up window provides information on the sender, subject, and time the e-mail was sent. If you miss the alert the first time, a handy option, Tell Me Again, will show the pop-up again. Gmail Notifier won't take you directly to a specific e-mail, but a double-click quickly takes you to your in-box.
Although the program automatically scans for new items every couple of minutes, you can right-click the system tray icon to check your in-box at any time. One note to potential users: we found that the promised audio alerts can't be set up from within Gmail Notifier. Instead, the publisher directs you to your computer's Control Panel.
No help file comes with the program, but Gmail users won't have any problems setting up and using this simple tool. Despite the extra steps to set up the audio notifications, any Gmail user will appreciate the desktop notifications when new e-mail arrives.
Publisher's description
From Google :The Gmail Notifier is a downloadable Windows application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects, senders and snippets, all without your having to open a web browser. When you install the Notifier, you will be able to automatically check for new messages every two minutes. see a snippet of text from up to 30 unread messages, select a sound to indicate when you have new mail, and make Gmail your default e-mail application.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 41 votes
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Version: Gmail Notifier 1.0.25
"Efficient tracker of incoming Gmail"
Pros: Quick search in the tray to see if there has been any new email if I'm away. Nice notification if I'm at the computer
Cons: Having to sign on everytime I log on to the computer. I can't seem to get the "remember sign on to work. Likely an operator error.
Summary: I've used this for a week and am finding that I can keep up with the gmail better than before. I bounce between a number of windows as an active financial trader, so I don't need anything extra taking time. This app saves me time.
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Version: Gmail Notifier 1.0.25
"works as a great reminder for mulitiple email addresses"
Pros: The simplicity of the program
Cons: works as was explained .
Summary: I like the ease of use it provides
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Version: Gmail Notifier 1.0.25
"Does not work with corporate gmail"
Pros: i could not use
Cons: Does not work with corporate gmail
Summary: was not what I needed. uninstalled.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Gmail Notifier 1.0.25
Pros: way quicker than wating for the gmail page to load especially if you are using IE8
Cons: have to tick the log in box every time
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Gmail Notifier 1.0.25
"They advertise it for multiple accounts. Not true."
Pros: Not much.. Best feature seems to be that it is easy to uninstall.
Cons: It can only monitor multiple accounts if you manually switch. I can do that in Firefox, why do I need this?
Summary: I wanted an application that could notify me of mail on two different accounts. This one promised to do that, but fails to deliver. Supposedly you can configure it to do this, but a menu option to get to the configuration might have made that more... read more >>
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