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Activate 'hidden' features in the Gmail Notifier Apps
I took this right off of this post on the Google Blog, and I thought it was pretty cool. The following is taken directly from the provided link...

As some clever users have already discovered, the Gmail Notifier for Mac OS X we launched last week can do a little bit more than meets the eye. A couple interesting features:
  1. Fetch mail for only one Gmail Label
    This is very useful if you only want to be "notified" about certain emails. For example, to only fetch mail with the label "ImportantStuff," run the following command from the Terminal:
    defaults write com.google.GmailNotifier Label -string "ImportantStuff"
  2. Extend the Notifier using plugins
    The Gmail Notifier supports plugins written in AppleScript, or full-blown Cocoa Bundles in Objective C. Details about the Objective C plugin API can be found inside the Gmail Notifier application bundle in the required header file, GGPluginProtocol.h (Control-click Gmail Notifier.app -> Show Package Contents -> Contents -> Headers).

    AppleScript plugins are written by simply implementing a handler like this:
    on NewMessagesReceived(messages, fullCount)
    -- Your code goes here...
    end NewMessagesReceived
    To install, simply copy the script (plugin) to Library/Application Support/Gmail Notifier (create the directory if it doesn't exist), and restart the Gmail Notifier. An example of a great plugin for the Gmail Notifier for MacOS X is the Gmail+Growl plugin, which sends Growl notifications when new mail arrives.
[robg adds: I haven't tested these extensions to the notifier, but there's no reason to think they won't work, given the source!]
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Activate 'hidden' features in the Gmail Notifier
Authored by: kirkmc on Sep 19, '05 10:49:40AM

I don't understand why anyone needs the Gmail notifier - just set your Gmail account to allow POP downloading and use your email client to manage your Gmail mail...

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Activate 'hidden' features in the Gmail Notifier
Authored by: club60.org on Sep 19, '05 10:57:04AM

Or even subscribe to GMail newsfeed and place it in bookmarks bar to see new messages count...



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Activate 'hidden' features in the Gmail Notifier
Authored by: fitzage on Sep 19, '05 11:42:46AM

Because it's POP. I want my email to be exactly the same no matter where I am, which is why I'm obsessive compulsive about IMAP.

This is also why I don't use gmail that much.



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Activate 'hidden' features in the Gmail Notifier
Authored by: astrosmash on Sep 19, '05 05:57:42PM

Because reading a new message in Mail.app doesn't mark the message as read in GMail, and vice versa.

I use Mail.app with GMail POP simply for backup and local storage of my GMail account. (My email situation has never been better since I started doing that, by the way. All 4000 messages of the GMail messages show up in spotlight. It's awesome)



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Activate 'hidden' features in the Gmail Notifier
Authored by: davepelz on Sep 20, '05 03:21:47AM

actually it does mark messages as read. if you set it up in gmail pop preferences, you can have it it archive all the messages downloaded to mail, so you dont miss anything, and dont have to sort through crap when you access gmail from somewhere else. its beautiful.



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Gmail POP, archive, and spam
Authored by: sjk on Sep 20, '05 07:31:50PM

I've noticed Gmail POP occasionally fails to download (and archive, on the Gmail side) a couple messages, which I know are still in the INBOX because of the RSS feed I use to monitor it. And when I interactively login to Gmail those check those messages they've *always* been spam. I have no idea why it behaves like that but it's actually a feature for me because I can mark those unarchived messages as spam without reading them.



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Activate 'hidden' features in the Gmail Notifier
Authored by: ben42 on Sep 19, '05 08:02:31PM

I use the Gmail Notifier at work (can't use POP on two machines), and it's great. Unlike the PC notifier, you can go straight to a new message, and it immediately marks it as read. I used to use Gmail Status, but it seemed to cause problems with my connection timing out if I took too long to write an email. With the Gmail Notifier I can take all day to write an email and no problems.



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Activate 'hidden' features in the Gmail Notifier
Authored by: grahamfsw on Sep 23, '05 06:17:26PM

I can understand why people don't want to use POP for gmail. I like Gmail's web interface, but I like being notified on my desktop when I have new mail. I found a much better Gmail notifier than the one that even Google made. It uses Atom feeds provided by Google to check it. Definitely the best one I've used so far. You can get it here:

http://www.lloydslounge.org/gee/



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Gmail Atom feed
Authored by: sjk on Sep 23, '05 08:23:31PM

Nice tip and utility, though I've grown to like the convenience of having the feed/notification directly in Safari and dropping into Gmail from there.



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Activate 'hidden' features in the Gmail Notifier
Authored by: UberFu on Jan 20, '06 10:05:12PM

The problem with this approach is that all eMail gets downloaded straight to the Inbox without some major tweaking_ The "Labels" in Gmail do not translate to a standard mail clients "Folders"_



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