Mail.appetizer displays a transparent notification on top of your screen when new messages arrive. It shows only sender, subject and the first plain-text lines of the message, so you can determine whether the message requires your immediate attention. The prominence of the notification can be defined by adjusting transparency and display time.
Mail.appetizer is a plug-in for Apple's Mail and integrates seamlessly. It is dynamically loaded when launching Mail and you can change settings from within Mail's preferences.
Note that Mail.appetizer uses - as all Mail plug-ins
What's New
Version 1.3b1:
Compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
Universal Binary for both, PowerPC and Intel microprocessors.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5, Apple Mail.
Mail.Appetizer is now compatible with Snow Leopard. The product shows incoming mail in a translucent, overlapping window. A bit like Growl but in a larger window in which you can actually read the text (not the pictures!) and decide directly whether to delete it or to take other actions. It's a huge productivity improvement because you don't need to open mail and interrupt your work. The product is a plug-in for mail.app and is fully customizable via mail preferences. Very nice integration, very unintrusive.
The original and still the best! You can grab the latest betas (including one that works with 10.6.2) by following the developer's twit: https://twitter.com/BronsonBeta
Since Mail.appetizer has not been updated for Snow Leopard yet, I wrote my own plugin called Herald that has similar functionality. You can get it here:
I was having problems with Mail freezing at launch with Mail.appetizer installed. There's apparentely a conflict with Mail-Act-On. I can only use one or the other...
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Mail.appetizer displays a transparent notification on top of your screen when new messages arrive. It shows only sender, subject and the first plain-text lines of the message, so you can determine whether the message requires your immediate attention. The prominence of the notification can be defined by adjusting transparency and display time.
Mail.appetizer is a plug-in for Apple's Mail and integrates seamlessly. It is dynamically loaded when launching Mail and you can change settings from within Mail's preferences.
Note that Mail.appetizer uses - as all Mail plug-ins do - several of Mail's private internal methods. Use it at your own risk.
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Valentinissimo reviewed on 20 Mar 2010
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http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/32744/herald
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Adamt reviewed on 11 Oct 2009
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zx reviewed on 28 Aug 2009
*And start charging got it...it's 2good:)
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10.6.4 don't work Do you have fix for that?
thx
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(Would hardly MacUpdate could host such a fix btw).
Thanks a lot for this!
Mail.appetizer is a _must have_ for Mail.app to me.
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I would be very grateful if the developer could upgrade it.
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Orlandoech rated on 05 Jul 2011