[121space team]

If you are not a big fan of any mail clients, you can simply use GMail’s notifier to get you your webmail.

The Gmail Notifier is an application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects, senders and snippets, all without your having to open a web browser.

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/notifier/