Mail Badger is a free plug-in for Apple Mail that lets you create multiple badges to Mail's dock icon, to indicate the number of messages in different mailboxes, or the number of messages that satisfy a set of conditions.
The main features include:
Create badges that indicate the number of unread, read, or total messages in a mailbox or group of mailboxes
Create badges that indicate the number of messages that satisfy a set of criteria (such as the number of messages from a particular e-mail address, or the number that contain attachments)
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What's New
Version 0.4:
Fixed a bug that occasionally caused random crashing when the badge was updated.
Was using this in Leopard, and now doesn't work in Snow Leopard. The developer's website only says something to the effect of "under construction" so there's no indication of if/when it will be updated.
There's an old saying: "You'll never miss your Mother until she's gone." Kind of how I am feeling on Snow Leopard without Mail Badger.
The good news is the developer is working on a SL release. Hopefully, we'll get it soon and can go back to not realizing just how much this makes our lives easier.
I don't know how I got along without Mail Badger. I have rules that automatically sort email to 2 of my email addresses into separate folders. With Mail Badger, I can have a badge for each folder, so I can see when I have new messages in either folder. It works great.
Causes hangs for me as well - taking a sample from Task Manager confirms it's Mail Badger at fault (seems to be trying to update the icon badge at the time).
Unfortunately I closed the sample window without saving it (doh!) so I don't have anything to send the developer until it does it again :(
Oops. Wrong again. Mail.app works for a while, then same old problem occurs. I delete the MailBadger bundle, and Mail woks perfectly again. When I reinstall MB afresh, Mail works just fine for a number of weeks, then the same old problem recurs. It's clearly MailBadger that's causing the problem. Too bad, really.
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Mail Badger is a free plug-in for Apple Mail that lets you create multiple badges to Mail's dock icon, to indicate the number of messages in different mailboxes, or the number of messages that satisfy a set of conditions.
The main features include:
Create badges that indicate the number of unread, read, or total messages in a mailbox or group of mailboxes
Create badges that indicate the number of messages that satisfy a set of criteria (such as the number of messages from a particular e-mail address, or the number that contain attachments)
Create badges that take their value from an arbitrary block of AppleScript code
Customize the appearance of your badges - choose their shape, font, color, transparency, size and location; even use your own images instead of the built-in ones!
Mail Badger integrates seamlessly into Apple Mail, adding its own section to Mail's Preferences pane to make adding new badges to the dock icon as easy as possible. Documentation is included in the form of a standard Help book that can be accessed by clicking the purple "Help" button on the Mail Badger preferences pane.
Mail I would love to have the option to collect items from multiple folder, like Mail Badger does.
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Ericf reviewed on 17 Nov 2010
Very dissapointing.
Ogman reviewed on 17 Jul 2010
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The good news is the developer is working on a SL release. Hopefully, we'll get it soon and can go back to not realizing just how much this makes our lives easier.
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After weeks of waiting for a comment or a response, I gave up and moved on.
I love free apps and have donated to the few I use, but this really does underscore the difference between paid and free apps: responsiveness.
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c-had reviewed on 04 Jun 2009
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Unfortunately I closed the sample window without saving it (doh!) so I don't have anything to send the developer until it does it again :(
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macaddress reviewed on 12 Jun 2008
I'm Using Mac OS 10.5.2 and 10.5.3, on a imac with 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB ram.
I set up Mail Badger with 3 counts, each counting unread email from a different mailbox, nothing else.
It has a nice interface, so I'll use it when there are no more bugs.
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I would be very grateful if the developer could upgrade it.