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Mac Mail Checkers

Mail checkers are tiny small little wonders. They alert you of incoming mail in the most interesting ways. Some even let you preview and delete messages, and more.

Notify 2.1 - Mac OS X Mail Checker

Notify is a little email program in your Mac OS X menu bar that notifies of new messages and lets you preview, reply and compose the odd mail, too. (Mac)

Da Emails

Da Emails is a really unobtrusive and taste- yet useful display of unread messages in Mac OS X Mail.

eCheck - Mail Checking Dashboard Widget

eCheck checks multiple email accounts of various types (from POP over IMAP to Yahoo! Mail) in the Mac OS X Dashboard and can announce via Growl, too.

Frogslapper

Let a charming poor little frog do the mail checking for you with Frogslapper, a really nice mail checker.

Gee!

Gee! is a wonderfully elegant and efficiently handy way to keep an eye on your Gmail Inbox with a menu bar icon displaying the number of new messages and the menu giving you the details.

GmailStatus

GmailStatus gives a convenient count of unread mail in your Gmail account in the Mac OS X menu bar and lets you know which labels received new mail, too.

Google Notifier for Mac OS X

Google Notifier for Mac OS X is a slick and simple but also clever and capable Gmail alert mechanism for the OS X menu bar that also previews senders and subjects, provides many shortcuts to the Gmail site and can make Gmail the default OS X mail program. (Mac)

MacBiff - Mac New Mail Announcer

MacBiff is a very nice mail checker for IMAP accounts that gives you a concise and useful overview of all your mail folders from the Mac OS X menu bar. (Mac)

MacBiff - Mac New Mail Announcer

Find users' reviews of the MacBiff mac new mail announcer here and share your experience, too.

Mail Forward for Mac OS X - Webmail to POP Tool

Mail Forward for Mac OS X lets you forward mail from multiple AOL, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail accounts to any other email address, and read it there.

Mail Forward for Mac OS X - Webmail to POP Tool

Find users' reviews of the Mail Forward for Mac OS X webmail to POP tool here and share your experience, too.

Mail Forward for Macintosh

Collect all your email accounts, even all your Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail accounts at one email address with Mail Forward.

Mail Watch

Mail Watch is a very nice and unobtrusive way of keeping an eye on your email accounts for new mail.

MailCall

Get alerted of new mail, preview and delete it with MailCall, a useful mail checker.

MailLight

MailLight announce new mail you get in Eudora elegantly in the Mac OS X menu bar.

ManilaMail - Mail Checker

ManilaMail counts the number of unread messages in your Mac OS X Mail Inbox, and offers easy access to that Inbox as well as to composing mail to boot.

MenuMail

MenuMail uses the Mac OS X menu to announce new or unread messages in any folder in multiple IMAP accounts unobtrusively.

MailPop

MailPop not only displays new messages in your Gmail account (including sender, subject and a few lines of body text) in best Dashboard widget manner, MailPop can also continue checking for mail when hidden and announce new mail by speaking it to you.

POPMonitor

Get rid of unwelcome messages before downloading them in your default email client with POPMonitor.

POPThing

POPThing is a great thing for browsing mailboxes and quickly deleting messages.

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