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Erik Hinterbichler
Herald is a notification plugin for Mail.app, Apple's Mac OS X email client. Inspired by the excellent Mail.appetizer plugin, Herald shows you popup notifications whenever you receive new Mail. It also allows you to perform common actions directly from within the notification window, including deleting messages, initiating replies, viewing messages in Mail, or marking messages as read.
Herald's appearance is highly customizable, allowing you to change the background color, text color, size, shadow, transparency, and position of the window. Herald even provides a scrolling text view so you can
What's New
Version 2.1.1:
- Support for Mac OS X 10.7.3.
Requirements
- Intel
- Mac OS X 10.7 or later
- 64-bit processor
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Herald is a notification plugin for Mail.app, Apple's Mac OS X email client. Inspired by the excellent Mail.appetizer plugin, Herald shows you popup notifications whenever you receive new Mail. It also allows you to perform common actions directly from within the notification window, including deleting messages, initiating replies, viewing messages in Mail, or marking messages as read.
Herald's appearance is highly customizable, allowing you to change the background color, text color, size, shadow, transparency, and position of the window. Herald even provides a scrolling text view so you can read full messages without having to switch back to Mail.
Herald is a free download and requires Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Note: Mail plugins are not officially supported by Apple. While Herald has been thoroughly tested, it's possible it may cause unintended conflicts with Mail or with other unofficial Mail plugins, especially after OS updates. It's recommended that you backup your computer before installing Herald or any other Mail plugin, and always before installing any updates to Mail or OS X.
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Kinetic reviewed on 03 Feb 2012
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Foto555 reviewed on 02 Feb 2012
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Stig77 reviewed on 02 Feb 2012
Chrisreunion reviewed on 23 Nov 2011
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Jolly_joker reviewed on 13 Nov 2011
If the developer will add the diversified mail indicators, like in dockstar, it will be the fundamental all-in-one plugin for mail!
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Vitaly Khristenko reviewed on 31 Oct 2011
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ehd reviewed on 18 Oct 2011
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Bassrun reviewed on 12 Oct 2011
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10.7.2
MacBook Pro (Mid 2010).
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Has the wrong version been posted?
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Something that's strange about this Herald installer is that it asks, "How do you want to install this software?" While most installers ask if I want to install it for everyone or for only one user, Herald's installer offers only a single choice, "Install for me only."
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In Finder, select the menu item "Go" > "Go to Folder..." and enter "~/Library" (without the quotes). Make sure it is "~/Library" (with the squiggle in front) and not "/Library". Then navigate to the "Mail" folder. From there, select the "Bundles" folder and go to "File" > "Get Info". At the bottom of the info window there is a "Sharing & Permissions" section. Click the lock at the bottom to unlock. Then click the "+" button, select yourself, and give yourself "Read & Write" privileges. (If the "Herald.mailbundle" folder already exists in the "Bundles" folder, do the same thing for that folder also).
If this still doesn't work, it's possible that your Mail bundles were disabled somehow. Open terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion 5
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I did all of this, and it still fails to install properly.
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HACK-Design reviewed on 07 Oct 2011
Useful and fast,
notifications of the app are very comfortable ...
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Zoidbert reviewed on 04 Oct 2011
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Waiting for an update.
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Waiting for an update.
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go to ~/Library/Mail/Bundles
Delete Herald.mailbundle
Reinstall
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Is it possible that nothing happens?
If the software is "probabilistic" do not publish it . . . .
No conditions.
Leopard 10.6.5. Mail: the last.
apologies. . . .
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2) Move Herald.mailbundle back to ~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
3) On the command line, execute:
defaults write ~/Library/Mail/Bundles/Herald.mailbundle/Contents/Info SupportedPluginCompatibilityUUIDs -array-add "857A142A-AB81-4D99-BECC-D1B55A86D94E"
defaults write ~/Library/Mail/Bundles/Herald.mailbundle/Contents/Info SupportedPluginCompatibilityUUIDs -array-add "BDD81F4D-6881-4A8D-94A7-E67410089EEB"
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Go to ~/Library/Mail/Bundles (Disabled)/Herald.mailbundle/Contents/Info.plist
(or, in your case, to …/Mail/Bundles/…)
Open the Info.plist in TextEdit.
Add (not! replace) the mentioned two lines to the Supported Plugin Compatibility UUIDs like this: http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/3997/heraldplist.png
Save.
Move Herald.mailbundle back to ~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
Restart Mail.app. All should be working fine now.
Thanks to R1000M! :)
my Info.plist's permission got weird and I couldn't read nor open it.
I typed in the following command in the Terminal
sudo chmod 777 Info.plist
and Herald started working for my Mail 4.4.
Hope this helps.
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I am awaiting an update to this great piece of software.
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I do shut down Mail.app when installing other than that there is nothing I cna figure that prevents this app from installing???
Can you check out the FAQ and see if your problem is answered there?
http://erikhinterbichler.com/software/herald/#faq
If not, feel free to send me an email and we can work it out (my address is on that page).
Erik
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Tested on iMac Intel 2 Core Duo - Mac OSX 10.6.1
http://erikhinterbichler.com/software/herald/
Thanks,
Erik
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Macbond rated on 03 Feb 2012
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Weaselboy rated on 02 Feb 2012
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