The Bottom Line
MailLight announces new mail you get in Eudora elegantly, efficiently and in the Mac OS X menu bar.
Pros
- MailLight works as Dock icon or menu extra
- Unobtrusive, but efficient
- MailLight is easy to use
Cons
- MailLight does not display any message details
Description
- MailLight puts an icon in the Mac OS X menu bar that announces new mail.
- Go to Eudora or open folders with new mail from MailLight's drop-down menu.
- MailLight can ignore new mail in specific folders.
- Optional Dock icon.
- MailLight is available as application and as menu extra for Mac OS X 10.1.
- MailLight supports Mac OS X.
Guide Review - MailLight 1.2.7 - Eudora Mail Checker
Under the classic Mac OS, Eudora has this nice way of announcing new mail in the menu bar. Under Mac OS X this is no more.
Fortunately, MailLight brings back the old menu bar announcement and even improves it. Not only does it announce new mail with a icon in the menu bar (optionally you can have a Dock icon, too), you can also go to Eudora from that icon and open the folders that got new mail.
Not all mail is equally important, though. To avoid announcing spam, you can set MailLight to ignore new mail in certain folders (for example a folder for newsletters, or the one where you collect spam).
Now if MailLight could show some info about the new mail, which folder it is in, for example, it would be an almost perfect mail announcer for Eudora.
