[JazzCatDRP]

Hey all,
I'm running off of a little pokey G3 powerbook, so needless to say RAM is a precious commodity for me. I prefer to have Mail open so I can quickly respond to messages, rather than periodically opening it an checking it, but I gotta keep open apps to a bare minimum. Is there any sort of a little app that'll hide away in the menubar and periodically check my mail for me and then alert me when something arrives?

[TETENAL]

You can close the Mail window and still keep the app running. It will check for updates periodically and display the number of new messages in the Dock. That doesn't use more CPU time than a little app in the menubar would.

[eatinwokout]

yeh you don't need to worry about mail.app hogging precious resources. as long as you keep it hidden in the dock you're fine. a lot better then downloading and running a third party app that checks mail for you. even if you did get one, you would still have to open mail.app to read your mail meaning that you would now have two email related apps running at the same time.