MiniMail – a plug-in for your Apple Mail
If you get as many emails per day as I am getting in my 6 mailboxes, you start to wonder if you should just keep your mailbox closed until a set hour every day and then read and respond to all of them. But then you’re risking missing some opportunity of vital information.
Someone just recommended MiniMail (an Apple Mail plug-in) to me today and I had to try it out immediately. At first I wasn’t sure what I’m supposed to be getting. It installed just fine, saw the Preference Pane under Apple Mail/Preferences, but that was about it.
Well, once you download it, you should select, which mailboxes you’d like it to track, which you do in the Preferences/Show Mailboxes. You can choose from one of the options or customize it. Then once you hit the “Maximize” button (the green dot in the upper left corner) and you get this:
Once you actually get an email, you get this:
And then you can hit the spacebar while selecting the window above and you can preview your email. You can “scroll” through your unread email. It’s pretty nifty, because I can monitor my incoming emails on my second screen in a small window and use the appropriate action: read, mark unread or delete, but there are more options.
So, to recap:
- MiniMail is shows you the new mail in several mailboxes
- it does not have notifications (version 2.1 will as I learned from support today)
- let’s you control your actions on the individual mail you’re viewing
