gmail herald 0.4

Gmail Herald is an alternative Gmail Notifier for Windows and potentially other systems due to its being a Qt project. It is fast, intuitive helper for those who have Gmail accounts and wants to be notified on new email arrival.

Gmail Herald resides in the system tray and checks the given Gmail account for the new mail. Gmail Herald uses the Atom feed for unread mail detection with a minimal bandwidth. When a new mail detected, application plays sound, the tray icon changes to red flickering, and the notification window appears on the screen. In case of multiple mails, they shown one after another. You can iterate over the messages in notification window and mark them as read by pressing the corresponding button.

Notifies on new messages arrival in your Gmail inbox.

Get and display time, senders, subject and text summary of messages in the notification window.

Allows marking new messages as read.

Allows iterating over multiple messages in notification window.

Move notification window to any position on the screen. This position will be saved between sessions.

Notification window stays opened under mouse and smoothly disappears otherwise.

Password encryption.

Gmail Herald runs on system startup.

Plays sound on new mail arrival.

Supports English and Russian user interface.

Gmail Herald 0.4 is currently released, and I would kindly appreciate your feedback and constructive comments about the application. You can download the Windows installer with the latest release version (0.4) from here for absolutely free.

Gmail Herald can be easily downloaded and installed on all Windows OS flavours with double clicking on installation package file. Installation package contains all necessary binaries, and there is no additional requirements for the user.

If you want to use "Mark as read" functionality, you will need to enable IMAP access for your Gmail account.

Below are Gmail Herald GUI screenshots.

Gmail Herald will open in your system tray enabling you to access the application's options.

You can easily change the credentials in this window. Credentials can be saved as an encrypted string for automatic login during the next sessions.

The Options dialog will let you set the timeout value, define the sound file and set the user interface language. You can also instruct the application to run on system startup.

Notification window contains the information about new messages in your inbox, error messages and other information.

The new mail arrived. You can mark them as read by pressing the corresponding button.

You can contact me directly by vahancho at gmail. Alternatively, the Gmail Herald project page provides pages for submitting bugs or feature requests. I would appreciate if you send your proposals, feedback, and other ideas.