GmailAssistant – The Ultimate Gmail Notifier

GmailAssistant is an amazing little java application that allows you to check multiple Gmail accounts including Gmail for Domains at the same time. GmailAssistant accesses your Google accounts securely using IMAP over SSL. Basically folks, that means that it’s pretty secure!

GmailAssistant allows you to completely customize your notification options. You can choose to have it find all mail, unread in the Inbox, and even mail with specific labels. You can even choose different alert methods…i.e. popup message, chime, blink keyboard LED.

Features

Single-File – GmailAssistant is launched from just one file. All you need to run it is contained in that one executable .jar file.
No Installation – GmailAssistant is packaged into one executable .jar file, which means it runs on any Operating System.
Leave It – GmailAssistant does not modify any system settings in any way. Everything needed for it runs in the .jar file.
Convenience – Always on top, SOCKS proxy, save/load program and account settings in encrypted profiles, automatic profile loading, adjustable mail check frequency, persistent and navigable popup messages
Updates – Easily update GmailAssistant with one click.
License – GNU General Public License version 2.

What it looks like

Here is the GmailAssistant Main form. From this page you can configure your various Gmail accounts.

Listed below is the “Account Form” where you specifiy your specific details for your various Gmail or Gmail for Domains accounts. This is where you’ll also set up the specific privileges about how you want GmailAssistant to notify you and alert you to your accounts.

Last but not least, is the view from the system tray. Here you’ll see the small GmailAssistant icon where it will display your alerts.

(By) Travis is a husband, engineer, entrepreneur, technology swami, visual communicator, WordPress lover and writer in his spare time. You can check out his personal blog at TQuizzle.com.

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Computers have become more than just a hobby. I work as a “Network Engineer” for a major Health System from 8-5 and I also work for a small-giants media, web design and development company in my spare time focusing on Web Standards and hacking to death the amazingly brilliant WordPress application.

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  • Kedar

    Aren’t we all a little wiser with stories like this one ? –
    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001072.html

  • Anonymous Coward

    @Kedar

    I’m sorry, but really, is that necessary? This is not shareware; it is freeware. And if was truly malicious, chances are it would’ve been removed from Sourceforge long ago. Not only that, but if you really don’t trust it, you can check the source code right there. All in all, I doubt you have much to worry about.

    • http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com Mackenzie

      Free Software, not Freeware.

  • http://cleancutblog.com Rory

    So I unzipped the program to its own folder using TUGZip, and when I double-clicked GmailAssistant.jar like it tells you to in the readme.txt, it opened with TUGZip again. What gives?

    • bob

      You probably have your file associations messed up, .jar files are compressed, so when you installed TUGZip (which I think you did, I am assuming here), it took over .jar files, you need to either reinstall the java library or type these commands (i don’t know if you are okay with the command line, but here goes):

      - Type “assoc .jar”, and note what is after the equals sign (i got “.jar=jarfile”)
      - Then type “ftype jarfile” replacing jarfile with what you got after the equals
      - If what shows up is like this:
      jarfile=”C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin\javaw.exe” -jar “%1″ %*
      then everything SHOULD be alright, so you may need to re-install, but if you get the path to your TUGZip install, just correct it, by typing something like this:
      ftype jarfile=”C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin\javaw.exe” -jar “%1″ %*
      Obviously the C:\Program Files… etc need to be the path to the java interpreter, and “jarfile” needs to be what you got after the equals sign in the first step

      Hope that helps!

      • http://cleancutblog.com Rory

        Thank you so much for your reply, bob. I’ll try giving your suggestions a go.

  • http://www.proxynetworks.com remote access software

    I’ve used the Gmail Notifier and the Firefox extension in the past.. Both are good.. But now GmailAssistant notifies me :)

  • http://newtechnologysite.blogspot.com/2009/08/cool-features-office-2010.html Cool features Office 2010

    This is great work. Very impressive, indeed. I myself am involved in developing a couple of measurement concepts and should use your work as a reference, I shall certainly cite you.

  • Eric Stanley

    This is great :) the best is, it works on every OS!

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  • http://b2labs.com bboldi

    A good Free Cross platform Gmail notifier (windows xp, windows vista, windows 7, mac os, linux) with cool animations http://home.b2labs.com/b2-gmail-notifier-freeware-animated-gmail-notifier

  • http://www.insegment.com sem

    Sounds like a great program. Is there a limit to how many Gmail accounts you can track?