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eMail Light: LEDs show new email

Step 15REALBasic software development

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The REALbasic development environment REAL Software is used for this development since it made the email code (pop protocol) very easy.

The goal of the software that I created was to connect to four different email accounts and monitor them for the presence of email. If email was found, a specific LED associated with that account should blink. The LED blinking rate should be changeable, the rate at which the email accounts are polled should be changeable, and the program should hide as a tray icon until needed.

Each of the four accounts has a quarter of the main window with a few text areas for account information. The quarter is pictured below.
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