Checking gmail for new, and unread mail

[Tyler Wiebe]

Hi, I'd like to make a system tray icon that will give me a pop up notification when I receive a new email, and how many unread emails I have in my gmail account. I don't know if it's possible, but I'd much appreciate any information on the subject.

[Paul Johnson]

Have a look at

http://www.all-the-johnsons.co.uk/csharp/email.html

for the connection routine. As for the system tray, not too sure on that as I've never implemented one, but I'd guess that you'd need to poll Google every (say) ten minutes and then fire a modal window from the system tray to say you've got mail. Do it on a thread of it's own with a sleep set on it.

HTH

[Tyler Wiebe]

Thanks for the link, it works sort of. It seems it displays all of my mail, and not just the unread ones, or new ones.

For now though, I'll see what I can do, but any other info would be great.

[Paul Johnson]

It does what it says on the tin!

The problem with gmail is that it uses a RESTful system. There is quite a good google library available on sourceforge (IIRC)

http://johnvey.com/features/gmailapi/