mail count in menubar? [RESOLVED]

[fisherking]

anyone know of an app that can do this? i used to have this functionality ("mail unread menu", then "mail satellite"). big sur broke that. miss it. so, just wondering if there's a mail bundle or something that would give me this in monterey (am not holding my breath tho....)

 

[08380728]

What's wrong with looking down, you done that before right?

Mail Preferences/General Tab
Dock unread count:
inbox only
All mail boxes
Today only

 

[BrianBaughn]

What's wrong with looking down, you done that before right?

Mail Preferences/General Tab
Dock unread count:
inbox only
All mail boxes
Today only

Doesn't help if you hide the dock…like me.

 

[fisherking]

Doesn't help if you hide the dock…like me.

exactly. i've had the dock locked away since OS X 10.3.9; i do that with a simple terminal command. if i need it (ie to check the trash)... command-option-D.

this has value to me on a 12" macbook (and previous 13" macbook pros, and before that, the 12" powerbook). i like fullscreen WITH an every-present menubar.

but that's just me. and i miss the apps that used to give me a 'unread mail' count in the menubar. anyway, if anyone has any ideas.....

 

[gilby101]

but that's just me. and i miss the apps that used to give me a 'unread mail' count in the menubar. anyway, if anyone has any ideas.....

SwiftBar or xbar and the Mail plugin by Harrison Page. I use SwiftBar, but both xbar and SwiftBar are new incarnations of BitBar.

The plugin is just one line of osascript and display in SwiftBar.

 

[fisherking]

huh! xbar and that plugin... works. amazing. love this forum (well, sometimes...).. gilby101, thanks so much.

 

[MacGizmo]

xbar seems nice... However, within hours of installing it along with that mail plugin, I began getting these notifications (which are of course malware/phishing and not real issues). Coincidence? It could be a web page popping up notifications, I suppose.

 

[gilby101]

It could be a web page popping up notifications, I suppose.

That would be my guess. What do you have in Safari > Settings > Websites > Notifications?

 

[MacGizmo]

Sorry, I meant to update this thread. The problem was indeed a website notification. It was unnamed and had the System Settings icon, and I have no idea how it managed to show up in the list, since I don't accept notifications from any websites.

The timing of it showing up was just odd - only a short while after installing xbar.

 

[sukpmp]

Hi, does anyone know the correct settings for an Icloud IMAP server? Also, does it need to be a generated password?