Mail Unread Menu works with Leopard (which will be handy) and also features a new exclusions list in its preferences where you can specific mailboxes for the app to ignore.

This is a concentration boost of the first order. For example, in the screenshot below, I have added the mailboxes for two mailing lists:

Because Mail Unread now ignores, it only reports emails that might actually need a response from me, not emails that prefer to browse when it suits me.

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Now at version 2.0, it been repackaged as an application with an assisting mail bundle, which adds greater stability.

The font size and colour of the message count can now be set in the preferences and an option to Compose a new message has been added to the app’s drop-down menu.

Best of all, the drop-down menu now lists the new messages by individual mailboxes. Clicking on the one you want jumps you directly to that mailbox, saving time and mouse-clicks. Nice.

It’s safe to say that this is now the best of the menubar notification utilities.

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I usually tell them that the Spacebar is as good as it gets.

However, using this script combined with an app like FastScripts , you can cycle through your unread messages in the Preview pane more efficiently.

It won’t satisfy those who want to do this in the Message window like they once did in Eudora, but you can’t have everything.

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The name will sound familiar. It is remarkably close to an old favourite, MailUnreadStatusBar, and the application is very similar too.

It sits in your Menubar and polls for unread messages at a user-definable period. When it finds some, the number of emails is displayed next to its icon. Menubar utilities like this are less distracting than the notification provided by Growl or Mail.Appetizer.

The drop-down menu offers you options for immediate mail-checking, access to the preferences and the app’s readme file:

Mail Unread Menu has only just been released, so it doesn’t have a swag of features. The Preferences pane mainly offers a place to set the time period for polling Mail.app:

It doesn’t have any of the account-specific features of MaulUnreadStatusBar, which allows you to specify which mailboxes to keep an eye on. Perhaps the developer will add these things later.

Mail Unread Menu only works if Mail.app is running.

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You need to tweak GPGMail’s settings for automatic authentication and decryption. The correct settings are outlined in an archived email on the GPGMail User mailing list.

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