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So I now use a Mac. But that doesn’t mean I’m not a Unix person anymore. Far from it. I don’t use Mail.app to read my mail for example. I still use Mutt which does exactly what I want to, and I still use OfflineIMAP for synchronizing my folders in a maildir format. And it works fine. Even better than fine.

But that led to the following problem: I couldn’t find a program to let me know if I had new mail in my maildir folders. On my Linux desktop, I use WMBiff, but I guess that there aren’t a lot of weirdos using maildir format under OSX.

So I decided to write my own, and I wanted to play around with widgets, so I wrote Chheckmail which currently only checks maildir (because that’s all I use anyway).

It’s ugly: I haven’t figured out how the geometry of a widget works, and I’m terrible at graphics.

Everything is hardcoded: I haven’t looked into how to handle preferences either, but I’m my only customer AFAIK, so editing a JavaScript file isn’t that constraining.

Depending on whether I get feedback and whether I spend more time on this, I’ll make it available publicly. It’s not that I’m ashamed of the code at this point, it’s just that it’s not userfriendly at all, nor is it documented.