Does this work with Inbox (as in, clicking on the notification opens the Inbox UI, not Gmail)?
Seems not to currently.
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#12I wonder about the example gmail addresses given. Do you own john, paul, george at gmail? I know we should use example.com for URL examples, are there any non-assigned addresses for well-known mail services?
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#13Happy to answer any questions, this has been a little side project of mine with Swift and Google's Gmail API.
Does it poll the email servers frequently or it's receiving IMAP notifications directly?
There is no use of IMAP, it's using the Gmail API. It does poll the Gmail API frequently which is currently the recommended method of checking for new email according to Google.
I know at some point they will switch to PubSubHubbub as the preferred way to get notifications.
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#14Does this work with Inbox (as in, clicking on the notification opens the Inbox UI, not Gmail)?
Seems not to currently.
I would gladly support Inbox, but I can't currently link to a specific thread in Inbox, so clicking a notification would just dump you at the inbox of your email account.
Behind the scenes, it looks to me like Inbox is a new GUI on top of the same Gmail backend, so if the thread linking was fixed this certainly looks possible.
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#15Interesting. Not a huge fan of marketing it as "Absolutely Free" and not mentioning the charge for multiple accounts. I currently use Checker Plus for Gmail Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/checker-plus-for-g... . Does the job very well.
Yep, I realise that 'Absolutely free' is a bad choice of words and I will amend. Thanks for the feedback
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#16I wonder about the example gmail addresses given. Do you own john, paul, george at gmail? I know we should use example.com for URL examples, are there any non-assigned addresses for well-known mail services?
Nope, I'm just a fan of the Beatles.
I don't know about assigned addresses, but for a long time Apple has used an imaginary John Appleseed.
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#17Interesting service. I definitely prefer my e-mail notifications to come right from SeaMonkey, but I could see this being useful for those who don't use a separate mail client and prefer to not have their gmail open in a separate tab 24/7.
Sure. A significant amount of people like having their entire inbox locally downloaded (and seemingly more common in the tech industry) but there's also a lot of people that keep it all in the cloud.
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#18Just a heads-up, I installed it and signed in with one of my two accounts, but then decided to switch the one free account to my other account. After removing the original account, I wasn't given the option to add in the single free account, only upgrade (I'm guessing there was an assumption in the code that the user would always have one account, and never remove it?). Uninstalling/reinstalling didn't give me the option to re-register, either.
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#19Any plans to post this on ProductHunt?
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#20Just a heads-up, I installed it and signed in with one of my two accounts, but then decided to switch the one free account to my other account. After removing the original account, I wasn't given the option to add in the single free account, only upgrade (I'm guessing there was an assumption in the code that the user would always have one account, and never remove it?). Uninstalling/reinstalling didn't give me the op…
Yes, indeed a bug. Thanks for the headsup, I'm on it.