Howard

Outlook.com / GMail / Yahoo / mail.ru / orange.fr / Lotus Notes Email Notifier

Get notified about new emails in your outlook.com, outlook.office365.com, live.com, hotmail.com, mail.google.com, mail.yahoo.com, facebook.com, LinkedIn, X.com, e.mail.ru, orange.fr, IBM / Lotus Notes, IBM iNotes, mail.virgilio.it, O2.pl, Yandex, SFR.fr, www.zoho.com and any IMAP inbox. Also, MAPI / Outlook is supported.

Windows New Email Notification

A tooltip and a sound will notify you about a new email. The tooltip shows you the sender and email subject. Just click the tooltip or icon to open your inbox in your browser or Windows Mail.

Different Icon Styles

You can select the tray icon from several different styles.

Support for multiple Webmail Services

outlook.com, mail.google.com, mail.yahoo.com, facebook.com, LinkedIn, X.com, e.mail.ru, orange.fr, IBM / Lotus Notes, IBM iNotes, mail.virgilio.it, O2.pl, Yandex, SFR.fr and www.zoho.com are supported.
Further, all email providers which are supporting the IMAP protocol can be used.
The MAPI service can be used to check your Outlook inbox.

macOS New Email Notification

New mails will show an alert in the Notification Center.

Windows: Free Download HowardSetup.zip

Version 2.06 · 4 months ago · 5.5MB · VirusTotal Report

New: Outlook.com Alternative tab working better now, Chrome Tab detection working again, Alternative Tray Notification Style added

macOS: Free Download Howard.dmg

Version 1.22 · 6 months ago · 3.9MB · VirusTotal Report

New: Show email count in menu bar, Yahoo login detection improved

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Install using package managers:

winget install --id the-sz.Howard -e --force
choco install howard.install -y --ignore-checksum

Supported Languages:

Arabic

Czech

Dutch

English

French

German

Greek

Italian

Japanese

Norwegian

Polish

Portuguese

Russian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Ukrainian

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows 11

Windows 10

Windows 8

Windows 7

Windows Vista

Windows XP

Windows Server

macOS 14 … 10.9

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Command line options:

/s	Use System Language instead of User Language
/l <language code>	Change user interface language to specified 2 letter language code
/p	Store settings in Howard.ini instead of the Registry

Review:

ePINIONATED has a detailed article about Howard: Using Howard E-mail Notifier.
SOFT FAMOUS has a How-to article about Howard: Howard Email Notifier for Windows.