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Old 2nd Aug 04, 08:36 PM
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Originally posted by JohnW@Aug 1 2004, 09:44 PM
I am using Mail Notifier and it is by far the best notifier I've used. PGtGM takes up about 40MB of RAM, while MailNotifier takes about 5MB. Can your system afford the .NET framework overhead that PGtGM uses ? MailNotifier also supports multiple accounts and ,aside from Gmail support, it has Yahoo Mail support ! Hotmail support will come soon...so...you choose
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Hey,

I gave mail notifier and PGtGM a try, but PGtGM aint using 40mb of my system resources at all. I did notice that is uses more memory when you close and restart the program. After checking my mail it went down to 1.2 mb used. Currently running at 5.8 mb. Highest I got so far is 8.5 mb. I'll monitor it further and check what it does.

Mail notifier is cool for checking multi e-mail accounts you might have and reports that you have new mail, but it doesn't forward your mail to your fav. mail client. Oh and I just closed and restarted Mail Notifier and it is using 7.86 mb and after sending a mail to check how it works it notified me and the resource usage went up to 9 mb. So I guess there isn't much of a difference in resource usage.

So the question is here what you prefer, being notified about mail or using a mail routing program. Both programs brilliant in it's task.

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