Save it, then go back to the directory mentioned above. When you’re done, the file should look something like this: Take those numbers and enter them into that file to match the others, with a new line after each one, two tabs, then ‘’, followed by the UUID number, then ‘’. You’ll notice at the bottom of the file is a list of strings, with very similar numbers to the ones the application dug up. The contents of this file should be fairly easy to figure out. Assuming you don’t have the XCode developer tools installed, you will need to right click and open this file in TextEdit. In this directory you should find an “ist” file. Open the GrowlMail.mailbundle folder, and the Contents folder within it. Try removing the tilde (~) from the text box above and repeating the steps from there.) (If you don’t see a bundles directory, you may have a global installation of GrowlMail. Because of this, I wrote a utility, “Get Mail.app UUIDs” which does exactly that.Ĭlick the icon to the left to download the utility. The UUIDs in question are particularly unpleasant to find, because they change with every single update to Mail.app. This isn’t specific to GrowlMail, by the way: It affects all Mail plug-in bundles, so if you use any bundles other than GrowlMail, you will also have to wait for their authors to release updates. These text strings are how Mail identifies versions of itself and the Message framework, so that is what we’re talking about here.)Īs long as you run Mail with GrowlMail installed, we suggest that you hold back on installing a new version of Mac OS X until we can test and release a new version of GrowlMail with it, because this will probably happen with every future Mac OS X update. (You may have heard of this being an issue of “UUIDs”. This is not an “or later” test: The plug-in must identify every specific version it is compatible with, and if your versions of Mail and the Message framework are not on that list, Mail will disable the plug-in and tell you to seek a version that is (explicitly) compatible with your version of Mac OS X. Starting with Snow Leopard, Mail requires every Mail plug-in bundle to explicitly state which versions of Mail and the behind-the-scenes Message framework the plug-in is compatible with. Why does GrowlMail keep breaking under Snow Leopard? Wondering why this might be? Well, the GrowlMail website has the explanation: That are compatible with Mail 4.3 and Message 4.3. Mail has disabled the following plug-ins:Ĭontact the makers of these plug-ins for versions Starting with the first install, each and every time you update Mail.app, you see this: Growlmail was released years and years and years ago, and has worked perfectly… until the release of OS X 10.6, Snowleopard. Not to worry The developers produced what’s called a “mailbundle” which allows Mail.app to talk to Growl, so Growl can give you your delicious notifications. The problem is, Apple’s Mail.app doesn’t have any native support to push out those sorts of notifications to applications like Growl. Growlmail is a plugin which allows you to see new email messages as Growl messages when you receive them. If you have Growl, and you like those handy little popups that tell you what your applications are doing in the background, you’ve probably installed GrowlMail. Growl is one of the most awesome utilities you can get for your Mac. If you have a Mac, you should have Growl. October 7 th, 2010 Fixing GrowlMail to work in Snowleopard
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