This is a very simple dashboard widget that displays the number of unread messages in your Gmail or Yahoo! mail account.As you can see it takes the form of a British postage stamp. The stamp will turn red when you have mail waiting - the number will also increase to display the number of unread messages. Clicking on the stamp will open your mail inbox in your default web-browser.If you have more than one account then just add more copies of the widget to your dashboard. We appreciate that you're going to need to be able to tell the difference between your different mail accounts in this case - not to worry, Mail Checker is currently available in 4 different flavors.
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Flat out stopped working with Yahoo! Mail. Until it does again, useless for me as well.
Useless
chrischram
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I just manually checked my Yahoo mailbox, and there was this HUGE backlog of unanswered mail going back weeks and weeks. This widget just plain doesnt work on my iMacIntel.
Excellent widget!
jaguarcy1
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Love the widget... use it constantly, the best way to keep track of my three separate gmail addresses. The best feature is by far the progress indicator, which was missing in the previous versions (had to hack the code myself to get a crude progress indicator)
What I'm still missing however is an indication of which notifier stamp is checking which email address... A very small hack I added displays the username of the account at the top of the stamp, but obviously this disrupts the otherwise perfect layout! An integration would be much appreciated.
Great product stoped using it
siriusfox1
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I used this for a little while, then moved on to Gmail Notifier with growl. It really all depends on how you like it. The Widget is very easy to use, and works incredibly well. I really would like to see something similar to this that checks non-gmail accounts too.
I stopped using this because I liked the alerts I got when using growl in Gmail notifier, but this is better because one simple mouse movement and BOOM, you know if something is in your inbox.
It all depends on what you prefer, even though I prefer others I still have to give this a 5/5.
Link doesn't work
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />The link to gmail, when you click on the stamp doesn't bring me to my inbox or even a login screen, its too bad, because at one point it did work, but that may have been a previous version. There is also no known way to easily correct this, by entering in the link manually, maybe the developer could address this issue. Otherwise a great widget. Simple and effective.(once this bug is fixed)
Link doesn't work
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />The link to gmail, when you click on the stamp doesn't bring me to my inbox or even a login screen, its too bad, because at one point it did work, but that may have been a previous version. There is also no known way to easily correct this, by entering in the link manually, maybe the developer could address this issue. Otherwise a great widget. Simply and effective.(once this bug is fixed)
Gmail Checker
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This widget has become invaluble to me. Up until now I've only been able to keep tabs on one of my gmail accounts, as far as I'm aware it's the only one that supports checking multiple accounts!
Nice work Scue!