Get OSX message center notifications for new unread emails in your gmail inbox. Ideal if you just use the web version of gmail and so don't have a way to have notifications triggered.
- clone the repo somewhere then copy the
gmail-notifierdirectory into your/Applicationsdirectory (or create a symlink to the cloned repo). - make sure you have a keychain entry with your gmail details, where the account value is your gmail address
- run the notifier script once to, ensure it has the right permissions (you may be prompted togive keychain access)
./gmail-notifier/gmail-notifier -k gmail -o -v# where gmail is the name of your keychain key with your gmail details
- by default checks for new emails happen every 10 seconds, edit the
gmail-notifier/gmail-notifier.plistfile if you wish to change that interval - configure gmail-notifier run at login with this command
launchctl load /Applications/gmail-notifier/com.diffsky.gmail-notifier.plist
You should now start getting notifications.
To deactivate notifications run: launchctl unload /Applications/gmail-notifier/com.diffsky.gmail-notifier.plist
To have gmail-notifier start automatically at login, copy the plist into your LaunchAgents directory: cp /Applications/gmail-notifier/com.diffsky.gmail-notifier.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
The functionality for displaying the notifications is all from terminal-notifier. A bundled version of that app is provided so that the icon can be modified to look more like gmail (from Janko). This is due to a restriction in notification center that means it only shows app's icon. So there is a forked version of terminal-notifier with this changed icon.