Hawk Wings » polling http://www.hawkwings.net Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:44:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Gmail now collects email from other accounts http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/12/10/gmail-now-collects-email-from-other-accounts/ http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/12/10/gmail-now-collects-email-from-other-accounts/#comments Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:18:24 +0000 Tim Gaden http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/12/10/gmail-now-collects-email-from-other-accounts/ GmailnotifierGmail has launched a new feature which allows users to collect email from up to five external accounts.

This represents a substantial leap forward for the functionality of the service, making it more easy easier to use Gmail as a global email solution.

According to the Gmail announcement , the new “MailFetcher” feature, which is accessible from the Accounts tab of Gmail’s preferences, offers options to leave copies of the retrieved messages on the remote server, to use SSL when retrieving the mail, to apply a label automatically to the collected messages and to archive the incoming email.

Full instructions for using the new feature can be found on another Gmail web page.

Obviously, this will put an end to the various complicated forwarding work-arounds that have been necessary in the past. It makes Gmail a much more attractive option as a total replacement for the traditional desktop client.

There’s only one hitch:

This feature is currently only enabled for a limited number of users. We’re working on making it more available soon.

It hasn’t appeared in my preferences yet, but it might be there in yours.gmail, google, email, external accounts, polling, new, mailfetcherSimilar Posts:

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Unlike many notification utilities, though, it takes full advantage of the functions and flexibility of IMAP servers and folders.

If you are looking for a powerful and flexible mail-check utility for your IMAP accounts that also works with Growl, you will want to read the rest of the review and see the screenshots after the jump.

When you run it for the first time, you will need to enter the information for your IMAP accounts. It then starts polling, displaying the results as nested folders on your IMAP server (excuse me sending myself email for this example, but it’s the weekend so email traffic is down):

macbiff_menubar

As you can see, it displays the total number of emails in each folder as well as the unread ones. It retrieves a time stamp, sender and subject of the email for you.

Sadly, clicking the subject line info doesn’t open up the email in Mail.app. It should.

But there’s more! Under the hood, MacBiff offers options for subscribing, ignoring and disabling particular folders in each account:

macbiff_config

It also interacts with Growl for yet more notification options, passing limited folder information to Growl as well for display in its alerts.

Finally, a nifty additional feature becomes available if you “detach” it from the menubar. MacBiff gives you a list of all your IMAP folders, the total number of emails in each one and the number of unread emails (although you can already get something like this in Mail.app with a keystroke):

macbiff_folders

MacBiff is an open source project. You can get the latest build from the developer’s web site.IMAP, notification, polling, biff, folders, subscribed folders, growl, nested folders, menubar, open source

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