MailEnhancer is a mail bundle that enhances the operation of Apple's Mail application. It provides four enhancements which are detailed below. Each one can be turned on or off individually through a preferences panel.
Show activity viewer when doing a manual mail check
Display a status dialog after doing a manual mail check
Dock icon count shows all unread instead of just inbox unread
Automatically update signature to match sending address
installed mail Enhancer 1.11 on my
Mac Mini 1.66 intel; BUT doesn't work
as it should
LOST my spinning B/W wheel as new mail downloads;
Cannot see 4 options.
SO does NOTHING for me???
How do I remove it and return to my mail
I wanted to see NEW Mail BEFORE downloading!!!
As of 10.4.3, MailEnhancer isn't working any more, at least for me. I'm getting the bundle compatibility error and none of the solutions that seemed to work for earlier versions are working now. I tried this with a brand new user just to make sure it wasn't something weird with my user only and sure enough it wasn't. If anyone knows how to make it work again, please let me know.
**I did not write this but simply ripped it off the TUAW site.**
Apple disabled third-party plug-ins in Mail 2.0.1. Here's how I fixed GPGMail. It will probably work for Growl, too.
1. Quit Mail.
2. On the terminal, run 'defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles 1' without the quotes.
3. Start Mail.
4. Quit Mail.
5. Rename ~/Library/Mail/Bundles (Disabled) to just Bundles, or reinstall the plug-in.
6. Start Mail.
I had to mess around with opening Mail a few times after running the terminal command before reinstalling the plug-in, otherwise the setting wouldn't take.
Posted at 12:06 AM ET on May 17, 2005 by Aaron Jacobs
Anonymouscommented on 17 May 2005
Oh, I suppose I forgot to mention that this seems to work with MailEnhancer, Growl, and Mail Act-On. I'm sure it works with any other bundles as well.
Anonymouscommented on 17 May 2005
In Finder, rename folder ~/Library/Mail/Bundles (Disabled) to ~/Library/Mail/Bundles
In Terminal, type:
defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles 1
defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion 2
Relaunch Mail
Anonymousreviewed on 03 May 2005
Briefly: It seems that this bundle is till working in Tiger.
[Version 1.11]
Anonymousreviewed on 25 Apr 2004
I liked mostly what the program did, but for some reason it within a day caused mail to crash every time i tried to compose a new email. Apparently other people haven't had this problem, but it was solved when i removed the mailenhancer bundle from the bundles folder. would email the author, but he is without name or contact as far as i can tell.
[Version 1.11]
Anonymousreviewed on 30 Mar 2004
Strange, but if I enable "Display a status dialogue after doing a manual mail check", Mail crashes about every other time at least. If I disable this one preference, no crashes.
The other thing that is strange is that if I enable " Show activity viewer when doing a manual mail check", then check in quick succession a few times, I get some very weird behaviour in the Mailboxes-double boxes, then all of them close up. Very odd. Otherwise, it's great.
I've really been enjoying Mail Enhancer. It's been working fine until I changed my Junk Mail settings. I previously had Junk mail being marked and placed in my Trash via a "Custom Action." A few days ago I changed Junk Mail to go to it's own folder. Two Junk Mails came in and were correctly sorted. The next day I decided to return to my previous settings. This has created an "unread mail" count of 2 on the red dot in the Dock icon that will not go away, even when all trash has been deleted and all mail read.
Is there a way to correct this? I've re-installed Mail Enhance once already.
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MailEnhancer is a mail bundle that enhances the operation of Apple's Mail application. It provides four enhancements which are detailed below. Each one can be turned on or off individually through a preferences panel.
Show activity viewer when doing a manual mail check
Display a status dialog after doing a manual mail check
Dock icon count shows all unread instead of just inbox unread
Automatically update signature to match sending address
Mac Mini 1.66 intel; BUT doesn't work
as it should
LOST my spinning B/W wheel as new mail downloads;
Cannot see 4 options.
SO does NOTHING for me???
How do I remove it and return to my mail
I wanted to see NEW Mail BEFORE downloading!!!
this is not for me
ah well
+3
defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles 1
defaults delete com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion
Check the readme file for manual install instructions. This works here with 10.4.6!
** DO NOT FOLLOW THE STEP ABOUT CHANGING THE COM.APPLE.MAIL PLIST... simply copy the bundle in ~/Library/Mail/Bundles/ **
I couldn't live without this little thing!
Anonymous reviewed on 17 May 2005
In Finder, rename folder ~/Library/Mail/Bundles (Disabled) to ~/Library/Mail/Bundles
In Terminal, type:
defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles 1
defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion 2
Relaunch Mail
I can't say how happy I am to have Mail Enhancer back.
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Anonymous reviewed on 17 May 2005
Apple disabled third-party plug-ins in Mail 2.0.1. Here's how I fixed GPGMail. It will probably work for Growl, too.
1. Quit Mail.
2. On the terminal, run 'defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles 1' without the quotes.
3. Start Mail.
4. Quit Mail.
5. Rename ~/Library/Mail/Bundles (Disabled) to just Bundles, or reinstall the plug-in.
6. Start Mail.
I had to mess around with opening Mail a few times after running the terminal command before reinstalling the plug-in, otherwise the setting wouldn't take.
Posted at 12:06 AM ET on May 17, 2005 by Aaron Jacobs
In Terminal, type:
defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles 1
defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion 2
Relaunch Mail
Anonymous reviewed on 03 May 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 25 Apr 2004
Anonymous reviewed on 30 Mar 2004
The other thing that is strange is that if I enable " Show activity viewer when doing a manual mail check", then check in quick succession a few times, I get some very weird behaviour in the Mailboxes-double boxes, then all of them close up. Very odd. Otherwise, it's great.
Anonymous reviewed on 24 Jan 2004
Is there a way to correct this? I've re-installed Mail Enhance once already.