System Tray Mail Notifier?

well,
give it time,
there are a lot of members over different timezones.
hopefully you'll get lucky

mikedl said:

Is the issue that Thunderbird won't minimize to the tray?

You know, I don't know if it will or not. I never even thought to check. If it does, problem solved and I'll take it from there.

If not by default, it looks like there may be some plug-ins I can try. I'm on one of my Linux machines right now and won't be able to check the Winbox 'till I go back to work.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thu...lup=&advanced=

OK. I found a Thunderbird add-on that does exactly what I want. It's called MinimizeToTray Plus.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thu...rd/addon/2831/

The only thing I don't like about it is the icon looks like crap. So, if anyone knows how I can fix the icon, I'm all ears.

This is what I've got:



I'd like to have something that matches the stock Win7 tray icons. But, anything that looks better than the extremely pixelated T-bird icon that is there would be great.

bug67 said:

Mail Notifier wanted me to sign up for an "on-line account." No thanks.

I just tried and this account it refers to is the first email account you want to input, not a website account.

I've just tried POP Peeper and it's possibly the relatively best program ever. Low resource usage, to the point and makes use of Windows-native stuff. The interface's looks and colors are Windows theme-based, the default mail sound is theme-based, you can have either popups or systray balloon tips, it supports POP and IMAP/SSL, it can launch your default mail program and its Compose window, lets you configure how to handle attachments, IMAP's IDLE mode, download only/headers/body/everything, etc etc. Wonderful program!



Milkedl, the reason for wanting a program like this is that some people, like the OP and me, don't want to have to keep their entire email program with all its features and resource usage running the whole time just to get the notifications. A little systray mail checker only needs to log in on the server and check if any of the mails there are new. No address book, no theming, no big interface, no Write feature, just read & leave. Simplicity and reducing overkill is the key to performance.