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MailUnreadStatusBar – Discreet Notification for Apple Mail

screenshotNot everyone wants their email in their face all the time, which can happen with MailAppetizer. MailUnreadStatusBar is a notification utility that takes a more low key approach. Your email is just a click away but it’s not flashed up automatically to disrupt your work flow.

MailUnreadStatusBarThis excellent plug-in puts a little icon of the Apple Mail stamp in your status bar that lists the number of unread emails you have. You can customise which folders it tracks, and the icon’s drop down menu lists the unread mail by folder, allowing you to jump right to the folder you want or need to read.

I have found it a bit temperamental. It seems to forget from time to time which mailboxes to check and occasionally freezes. Still, it’s my favourite utility of its kind, and it’s free. Download it from QueueSoft. notification, menubar, utilities, mail.app, apple mail, nifty

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12 Responses to “MailUnreadStatusBar – Discreet Notification for Apple Mail”

  1. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Chatalog - Integrating iChat logs into Mail says:
    September 30th, 2005 at 9:56 pm

    [...] I don’t chat enough to make this one of my “always on” plug-ins, like Mail Act-on or MailUnreadStatusBar. But if I did, it would be a favourite. Good idea. Nicely executed. It’s shareware (USD 12.95 for personal use, USD 24.95 for businesses) and you can download it from the FreeVerse web site. [...]

  2. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Apple Mail Conduit: Synching with Palm Desktop says:
    October 6th, 2005 at 9:12 pm

    [...] The conduit is freeware although donations are not refused. It is available from the developer’s website, the same developer who makes the excellent menubar notification utility, MailUnreadStatusbar. [...]

  3. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » MailEnhancer: Counting all new mail in every folder says:
    October 13th, 2005 at 3:44 pm

    [...] It makes Apple Mail’s Dock icon count show all unread messages instead of just the ones in the inbox. Very useful if you use rules to move emails out of your inbox into other folders before you read them. (Of course, MailUnreadStatusBar can keep an eye on whatever folders you tell it to). [...]

  4. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » A bouncing Dock icon (or not) says:
    October 30th, 2005 at 8:18 am

    [...] So many notification options exists for Apple Mail — “loud” ones like iAlert or MailAppetizer, discreet ones like MailUnreadStatusBar, spoken ones like the Announce Mail or Spoken Sender Applescripts — that it is possible to overlook Mail’s built-in notification features. [...]

  5. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » iFaces: Notification by Address Book image says:
    November 5th, 2005 at 9:50 am

    [...] On the notification “volume scale” I place it half-way between discreet utilities like MailUnreadStatusBar and louder options like MailAppetizer, which splashes the lot, text of the message and all, in front of you. [...]

  6. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Mail Status Control 0.4.3 says:
    November 7th, 2005 at 8:40 am

    [...] The message count display can be configured to show only the inbox or all unread messages. These enhancements bring it closer to MailUnreadStatusBar, although the latter still holds the edge in flexibilty IMHO. [...]

  7. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Top ten things every Mail.app user should have says:
    December 21st, 2005 at 10:20 am

    [...] MailUnreadStatusBar. Discreet and useful notification. [...]

  8. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » MailWidget 1.2.0: Dashboard mail-check and notification for Mail.app says:
    January 2nd, 2006 at 9:55 am

    [...] Personally, I can’t see the point of this. It’s a cold day in Hell when Mail.app isn’t already running on my Mac and utilities like MailAppetizer and MailUnreadStatusBar provide more efficient notification, but widget nuts will love it. [...]

  9. The Unheard Word » Blog Archive » My top ten must-have Mac OSX applications says:
    February 18th, 2006 at 7:08 pm

    [...] MailUnreadStatusBar (a menubar icon displays the number of unread emails in Apple Mail — in any folder/s, not just the Inbox) [...]

  10. Sal says:
    August 26th, 2008 at 2:07 am

    Hi,

    Does anyone know of an app that adds a serial, consecutive number to the messages, both sent and received?

    Thanks in advance

    Sal

  11. phil says:
    June 2nd, 2009 at 12:22 am

    the geek who designed this page did an excellent
    job of hiding the location to select to download
    the application. Great Going!!!!

  12. devon says:
    April 6th, 2010 at 11:30 am

    personally I wouldn’t waste my time with this app. It’s done nothing but crash on me. :(

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