why mailxel has no auto-check for new mails

There is a rising demand for applications which ensure distraction-free zones (see, e.g. this universal darkroom script published on lifehacker), and rightly so: creative work needs undisturbed time to think (If you're not Bach, that is).

For the same reason, mailxel lets you decide when it is time to work on mails and when to work on other things: you need to start the mail download manually with this button.

Typically, after the mail download, you start processing the incoming mails. That's what the GTD workflow bar is for: you use the tagging functions to move from one message to the next and either respond to the mail (if this takes a short amount of time) or mark it as "do later" or "delegate".

mailxel 0.7.4 is out and brings minor feature updates and bug fixes. Check it out and let me know what you think.