GmailAssistant

Thank you for your interest in GmailAssistant! I appreciate your suggestion on using the Gmail Atom feed. Unfortunately, I think this approach has some shortcomings:

- Gmail apparently publishes only 20 unread messages in the feed

- The program must "pull" the feed periodically, whereas IMAP supports the IDLE command which allows the Gmail server to "push" new mail arrival notifications to the program.

Btw, is the program running particularly slowly? The first time GmailAssistant encounters a new mail, it takes slightly more time to retrieve the mail (subject, snippet, etc); subsequently, the program simply matches mail UIDs and should be much faster.