While checking out the latest version of QueueSyncMail (a conduit that syncs Entourage with Palm and now supports VersaMail 3.1, but doesn’t really belong on this blog), I discovered that MailUnreadStatusBar, my favourite menubar notification utility, also comes as a widget.

The widget is functional and elegant. The reverse side allows you to specify the mailbox to monitor and whether or not to animate the interface:

If you select “Animate”, the widget will scroll through the subject lines of the unread messages in that box.

It only monitors one mailbox at a time, but you can run multiple copies.

I don’t really understand the use of widgets for polling mailboxes, when excellent menubar utilities exist that offers this without the extra work needed to bring up the Dashboard.

But people who do understand it, might like to check this one out. It’s freeware and available from the developer’s web site.

Similar Posts:

• Mail Unread Menu: Menubar notification
• Mail Widget Round-up
• Mail Unread Menu: Menubar notification app gets smarter
• MailUnreadStatusBar notification app goes Universal
• Mail Unread Menu 2.0: Jump to mailboxes

Tags: conduit, entourage, menubar, notification, Palm, polling mailboxes, VersaMail, widget

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