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Artist's Note

Rainmeter config that checks your gmail account.
Updates every 10mins (which can be changed) and can be updated manually by clicking on the mail icon.
Displays the sender and the subject of 10 latest unread emails (they are shown on mouse over).

Based on Gmail Popup Mailchecker ()

*Suggestions on how to improve are welcome.

INSTRUCTIONS: open the skin ini (gmail.ini) with your favourite text editor (notepad?) and edit the line Url=https://#username#:/gmail/feed/atom

SECURITY WARNING: username and password of your gmail account are saved in the config file in PLAIN text


Licensing: the artist has specified that ports and mods are allowed.

Comments (27)

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ryairyai says:

for some reason i cant get it to work

do you think you can include directions on how to set it up?

on a sidenote, thank you SO MUCH for the port. I've literally been looking for a non-litestep port of this for MONTHS.

Fri, Feb 20th at 10:19pm (4 years ago)
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ryairyai says:

on a side side note, can you rig it so that it "pops up" everytime a new email is received, and then hides/docks itself when inactive?

Fri, Feb 20th at 10:36pm (4 years ago)
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keymit says:

@ryairyai
thank you, i'm glad someone likes it and is going to use...
sorry for the lack of instructions, I've included them in the description now
as for the suggestion, it is really easy to make it act like that if you normally have NO unread messages, but as you can see in my case there are a lot (828 and counting... wow... :)) and it is not that simple, but i'll try to figure put a way to do that

Mon, Feb 23rd at 05:45am (4 years ago)
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alejo says:

I can't get it to work, if for example my gmail account was and my password was customize (don't worry that's just an example) then should it look like this?

Url=https://#alejocustomize#:/gmail/feed/atom

?

Sat, Mar 7th at 01:01am (4 years ago)
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keymit says:

@alejo
it should look like this:
Url=https://alejocustomize:/gmail/feed/atom
this should solve your problem

Sat, Mar 7th at 07:16am (4 years ago)
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alejo says:

Awesome, thank you.

Sun, Mar 8th at 03:45am (4 years ago)
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scott101 says:

I'm having some trouble getting my to work. I've made sure that the email and password is set up correctly, but it seems to be stuck on "loading.." It never changes. Not sure what I could do to fix this.

Sun, Mar 15th at 01:57pm (4 years ago)
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scott101 says:

Alright, so I got the "loading.." to go away, and now the problem is that it never displays the number of unread messages in my inbox and the drop down menu is also always blank. :(

Sun, Mar 15th at 10:36pm (4 years ago)
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traceyami says:

Thanks so much, great skin, I just have one problem Right below mine are a bunch of greater than signs, and I can't get it flush with the bottom of my screen

***SKIN***
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Tue, Mar 17th at 09:40am (4 years ago)
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traceyami says:

ok, fixed those, figured out that's for the RSS feeds, but now i'm stuck on loading =(

Tue, Mar 17th at 10:22am (4 years ago)
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selfer123 says:

Great skin. How do you configure the login for the following:

Sat, Mar 21st at 08:25pm (4 years ago)
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torrentmt says:

still loading.....

Doesn't work for me

Thu, Apr 9th at 10:15am (4 years ago)
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Falcrum says:

not working with login like "" =/ Help!

Sat, Apr 18th at 06:01am (4 years ago)
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Great job keymit, thanks for sharing! The instructions above were clear and concise.

Tue, May 12th at 06:59pm (4 years ago)
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i managed to get this working right out of the box. There were afew visual bugs but im working on cleaning it up and ive changed up all of the images.

ill post my version on my account soon.

Big Thanks to keymit for his work !! :D:D:D

Sat, May 16th at 10:14am (4 years ago)
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I'm currently having the same problem as Scott101. I really want this skin too.

It doesn't seem to be connecting to my gmail even though I edited correctly. I've tried changing my password and editing it again to verify that it wasn't a problem with numbers in my password.

Pleas explain anything else that may be wrong D:

Thu, Jun 4th at 05:05pm (3 years ago)
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rakashu says:

any update on this? A lot of people were complaining about it not working.

Fri, Jul 24th at 01:36pm (3 years ago)
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encoryn says:

I get some trouble it always says loading but i have successfully do like this Url=https://alejocustomize:/gmail/feed/atom
what should i do next?

Mon, Feb 15th at 04:16am (3 years ago)
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encoryn says:

by the way i am in china

Mon, Feb 15th at 04:17am (3 years ago)
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bigal8469 says:

This is a nice skin, but it has problems. I am having the same problem as traceyami with the skin. I did what you explained in the instructions, but all it is showing is that I have messages when I know there are none. And there is no numerics showing to show me how many emails I got. There needs to be more instructions on configurations. I've noticed where it says substitute there is this #substitute#. What am I supposed to substitute? Need more instructions on this, thanks.

Wed, Apr 28th at 07:44am (3 years ago)
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Is there anyway to get this to work for a seperate google domain? I have a @buffalo.edu email adress through gmail.

Sat, Sep 25th at 03:41pm (2 years ago)
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1twilight says:

same question.
What about separate google domain ?

PLEASE HELP.
i have @seeu.edu.mk

Wed, Nov 17th at 02:16pm (2 years ago)
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Way to go on this one, no one including myself can get it to work. why is rainmeter in general such a complete let down.

Thu, Dec 9th at 10:12am (2 years ago)
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So, I've read thru all the posts of this skin NOT WORKING. However, IT DOES WORK.

YOU HAVE TO HAVE AT LEAST 10 UN-READ messages in your inbox for the '>' to be updated with the message subject lines.

I agree that this limiting factor should be set to 1 rather than 10. Or at least have the header where "new messages" is displayed to read something like "1 New Message" or "2 New Messages 223 Read"

I think many folks like the clean look of this app.

Tue, Nov 29th at 02:34pm (1 year ago)
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hey do you think you can make this a skin download? many of my friends are newbies,and dont know how to do it from ZIP or RAR or what ever it usually is unless its already formatted to be imputed DX sorry if its too much of a hassle,just thought it might be more easier for the newbies

Fri, Jul 6th at 07:52pm (10 months ago)
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Is there any way this could be adapted to check email on for example, a Hotmail account that uses port 995 instead of 110 with a given name and password?

Thu, Jul 12th at 12:35am (10 months ago)
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Dumbaz says:

To change the limit about the 10 un-read messages just change the .ini accordingly.


Configured for 3 Mails

Sun, Jul 15th at 10:26am (10 months ago)


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