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Google Hosted Mail Notifier

I found a widget back in January that did a ho-hum job of checking your Google hosted email (via Google's Apps for Your Domain service), but it doesn't always behave, and for RAM-conscious users a widget simply isn't the way to go. Fortunately, the Google Hosted Mail Notifier has risen to the challenge of providing a simple menubar item for checking your Google Hosted email, complete with customizable Growl alerts, choices in time intervals for checking mail, sounds, HTTPS connections and more.

It works really well, though I wish it used a different icon than the official Google Notifier to help differentiate it from the pack. Still, for a donationware app from Troels Bay, the same crew who brought us the Google Reader Notifier (and please, show the dev some donation love), this is a great piece of work.

I found a widget back in January that did a ho-hum job of checking your Google hosted email (via Google's Apps for Your Domain service),...
 

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Matthew

@Seth and @Olivier:

Actually, the official Google Notifier doesn't work for my hosted domain. It works for about an hour, and then can no longer contact the server. I did some research and it's a known bug that Google has done nothing about for more than 6 months. Fortunately, this little program works perfectly.

@Mike:

Don't be an idiot. This isn't a mail client, like Apple's Mail. It's a notifier. I don't use Mail.app and won't want to use it because it isn't as full-featured as the native GMail interface.

March 16 2007 at 4:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mike

useless, just use apple mail, and you can put your hotmail, yahoo, gmail,etc

March 14 2007 at 7:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
olivier Hericord

google notifier works well with my hosted domain

March 14 2007 at 4:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kirk Rogers

or if you want a desktop app.... http://mailplaneapp.com/
is in beta right now..

March 14 2007 at 3:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Seth McFarland

I don't understand. Google Notifier works perfectly fine for email and calendar for my domain hosted by Google. Does it not work for everyone else?

March 14 2007 at 2:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Chartier

#1: Eloise, there sure is. I frequently use and love a widget called MultiDash:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/multidash.html

This lets you set up different batches of widgets that you can switch to on the fly. Note, however, that the Dashboard process is 'owned' by the same process that runs the Dock, so when you restart the Dashboard with a new set of widgets, you'll see the Dock disappear and reload itself as well. Nothing is going wrong here; this is perfectly normal and won't harm anything (though you might notice quirks such as any app that uses a badge, like the unread count in Mail and NetNewsWire. The badge disappears, but the app continues to work fine).

Hope this helps!

March 14 2007 at 2:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eloise Pasteur

I'm sneaking in a request really...

I have a few widgets I really like, and a much larger number I use occasionally. Short of creating different users with different sets of widgets, is there a convenient way to manage which ones are active when I hit F12 rather than then having to open, install, use, remove or have them all chewing up resources at the same time?

March 14 2007 at 2:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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