Display Unread E-Mail Count on Loginwindow
Bit of an unusual case, but I'm planning to restructure how I use OS X when I next do a clean-install, such that I have a separate user account for casual use and work use, to keep things a lot tidier and to avoid distractions.
However, I'd still like to know how many unread messages I have in the other account, either visible from the loginwindow or by some other convenient means.
Is there any way to achieve this, e.g - by installing a script on the account I want to get a count for? Of course if the other account isn't signed in this won't work, in which case a last known count is fine.
I suppose maybe I'm just spoiled by smart phones that let you see message count (or even messages) from a lock-screen, but it'd be nice to have something similar without having to actually add the same e-mail account to Mail for both users.
I think @Buscar웃 is right, you need to fetch your mail before you know how much mail is in your inbox.
I think you can use your Terminal for that, and with the combination of 'GeekBench' it might even look pretty.
A common mailclient for OS X terminal is mail
, it is already installed, but unfortunately I have no clue on how to configure it correctly.
Another terminal mail client is mutt
. You can install mutt using brew
brew install mutt
You can then configure mutt and run it in your other account. Mutt is lightweight and will not use much resources.