MailCountX

Note: This product is no longer maintained.

MailCountX adds a count of unread e-mail to your OS X menu bar. This can be very useful if you keep your dock minimized. This product integrates with Apple's Mail.app. MailCountX is currently available as a public beta.

Features

Adds icon to menu bar indicating how many unread messages you have
Integrates with Apple's Mail.app
Display a count from only INBOXes or all mailboxes recursively
Optional reminder beep with user-configurable delay between reminders
Reminder beep can use a standard system sound or a user-specified audio file
Adjustable time between polling Mail.app for unread count (to minimize CPU usage)

To Do

Fix "Ignore Drafts" option
Completely re-code in Objective-C/Cocoa to increase speed (this will be the main goal for version 0.4)
Code a plugin for Mail.app that would notify MailCount of new mail, rather than the opposite which is the current behavior
Add a list of available mailboxes, and allow user to select which ones to include/exclude from the count
Add user-selectable icon
Allow user to change font and color of count
Add option to display nothing instead of "0"
Add more compact icon option, similar to the red icon in the corner of Mail's app when you have new mail
Add support for other mail apps (Eudora, Entorage, etc)
Add option to force Mail to check the server for new mail

Screenshot

(MailCountX is the icon on the far left)

Download

Version	Release Date	Download	Size
0.2 beta	December 9, 2003	MailCountX-0.3beta.dmg (Latest)	1.04 MB
0.2 beta	August 27, 2003	MailCountX-0.2beta.dmg	1.06 MB

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