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DESCRIPTION
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.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 0.4: - Fixed a bug that occasionally caused random crashing when the badge was updated.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| Mail Badger User Reviews (13 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Sep 5 2009 |
DONEBYLEE 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.
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| Sep 28 2009 |
DONEBYLEE Well, I've moved onto DockStar. It works and it is ready now. 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.
(Version 0.4) | |
| Nov 2 2009 |
SCOTTISHWILDCAT On the other hand, at least I can actually download Mail Badger, unlike DockStar, which constantly gives me "connection reset by peer" errors...
(Version 0.4) | |
 | Jun 4 2009 |
C-HAD 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.
(Version 0.4) | |
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| Feb 10 2009 |
JKELLER87 I can't get past the Installation destination pane when trying to install 0.4, does anyone have any advice?
(Version 0.4) | |
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| Nov 29 2008 |
ORGOPETE To remove, go to users/user/library/mail/bundles and remove Mail Badger.mailbundle.
(Version 0.3) | |
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| Nov 26 2008 |
JOBBY 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 :(
(Version 0.3) | |
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| Jun 12 2008 |
MACADDRESS MailBadger-0.3 hangs the Apple Mail in my system after a short time (20min to 2 hours). 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.
(Version 0.3) | |
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| Jan 11 2008 |
APIKOROS 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.
(Version 0.2) | |
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| Dec 6 2007 |
APIKOROS Well, as the reader can see below, MB didn't work for me with OS 10.4.10— but it seems to work perfectly with 10.4.11. Thanks for the freeware!
(Version 0.2) | |
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| Nov 19 2007 |
SCWJUNK does NOT currently work in Leopard (according to developer's website). update is coming but no date given.
(Version 0.2) | |
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| Nov 9 2007 |
APIKOROS On my 1st-generation Core Duo iMac running OS 10.4.10, it causes Mail to endlessly spin the little downloading pinwheel next to the inbox, but it doesn't download messages from my Comcast POP account. When that happened, I could only force quit Mail. Removing Mail Badger restored normal behavior. I reinstalled MB and replicated this— twice. It's too bad, as MB's features are very desirable. I look forward to future versions.
(Version 0.2) | |
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| Nov 14 2007 |
PETER DA SILVA I was using Mail Badger for a while but some recent update to Mail.app seems to have broken it... I'm getting the same problem as you.
(Version 0.2) | |
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