# Need an email checker node
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/need-an-email-checker-node/12234
**Category:** General
**Created:** [14 June 2019 13:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/need-an-email-checker-node/12234 "2019-06-14T13:08:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@mdiehl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/mdiehl)
#### Post date: [14 June 2019 13:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/need-an-email-checker-node/12234/1 "2019-06-14T13:08:07Z")
Hi,
I'm wanting to build a dashboard that displays the number of new/old emails from various accounts and folders. I don't want NR to actually download the messages, just tell me how many there are.
I've looked, but most of the nodes that I've found actually send or fetch emails.
Have I missed something?
Mike.
---
### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [14 June 2019 14:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/need-an-email-checker-node/12234/2 "2019-06-14T14:43:40Z")
I think the default email node does send status (which can be grabbed by the status node) which includes thing like the number of emails processed... - and can be set not to set emails to read so it should keep re-reading them...
---
### Author:  [@mdiehl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/mdiehl)
#### Post date: [14 June 2019 17:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/need-an-email-checker-node/12234/3 "2019-06-14T17:43:06Z")
I was hoping this was the case, but it doesn't appear to be. From the help tips for the default email in node:
Repeatedly gets a **single email** from an IMAP server and forwards on as a msg if not already seen.
The subject is loaded into `msg.topic` and `msg.payload` is the plain text body. If there is text/html then that is returned in `msg.html` . `msg.from` and `msg.date` are also set if you need them.
Mike
---
### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [14 June 2019 18:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/need-an-email-checker-node/12234/4 "2019-06-14T18:58:20Z")
I think the info may be out of date vs recent updates. I’ll have a look when I’m near laptop next.
- Yes - The node will now fetch all messages of a certain criteria (Default is Unseen) - and mark them as Read (default) - Delete - or None (leave untouched) . If set to none then they will remain unread and so re-fetched on the next fetch. I'll update the readme.