If you have several Gmail accounts you need to check on a daily basis, you probably spend too much time logging on the Gmail website. GmailAssistant can save you many of these visits by checking your accounts for new messages automatically.

GmailAssistant has a few positive elements: it's a standalone executable file that can be carried and launched anywhere; it leaves no traces on the host system; and finally, it supports several simultaneous accounts. Plus it's very easy to configure and use, and as it connects to your Gmail account using IMAP over SSL, it's completely safe. By the way, this last point means you must have IMAP access enabled on your Gmail account - otherwise the program won't work.

On the downside, GmailAssistant has also some serious drawbacks: apparently there's no way to set a time interval to check your mailboxes for new messages and, even worse, configuration details aren't automatically saved. This means that all your account data must be manually saved to a file from the program itself in order to be able to use them again next time you launch GmailAssistant.

With GmailAssistant you can automatically check several Gmail accounts and receive alerts whenever there are new messages. Unfortunately configuration settings must be saved manually which is a bit of a pain.