2006-10-02
After spending quite a bit of time trying to get the RSS feeds to work for checking GMail status, I've decided to abandon that approach and just stick with POP3 for now. While I had gotten everything working using Rome to handle the RSS feeds it was impossible to check multiple mailboxes. Due to either my code, Sun's classes, or some combination of the two, it was impossible to reset the username and password used for a connection after they were intially set. This meant that no matter how many GMail mailboxes you checked, you'd always, in effect, be checking the same one.
So, with that said, I've decided to make use of libgnumail-java for everything. POP3 will be used for GMail so it should actually simplify the code a little bit as well. At this rate, this project should be done sometime before 2012...
2006-04-29
It looks like changes made with gmail in the last few months have broken the g4j library on which gcheck relied for all gmail checking. Since I have not seen any updates or signs of activity with g4j, I have decided the remove it from gcheck altogether. Gcheck will now be using Rome for pulling down the gcheck Atom feed instead. While this will limit some of the gmail-related functionality (such as marking messages as "read" directly from within gcheck) I believe that it will be a much better long-term solution. If anyone has any suggestions on any other alternatives I'd be glad to hear them.
2005-12-17
Welcome to the public homepage for GCheck. It's taken a while to get it done, but it's finally here. It's ugly, and it's boring, but it's here. With this out of the way I can start focusing on the first public release of GCheck. I had looked at using Java Web Start (and that is what I've been using for internal development), but as SourceForge does not have any decent way of dealing with JNLP files or crediting downloads appropriately, releases will probably be made in the form of platform-independent JAR files. If someone would like to put together an installer for any OS please let me know and I'll be glad to work with you on it.
In the meantime, check out the screenshots of GCheck in action on Solaris, Linux, and Windows!
GCheck is a cross-platform Java application for checking your email accounts for new mail. Currently, GCheck is built with GMail support, with POP3 and IMAP support coming soon. GCheck uses the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) so it looks like a native application in your choice of operating system. GCheck lives in your notification area/system tray so that it stays out of your way when you're not using it.
GCheck is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is therefore completely free. GCheck does not use any closed-source libraries so there is no danger of spyware or other malicious features sneaking in without someone noticing.