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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.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Tony Allevato
Downloads:5,911
  - Version d/l:1,198
Internet:Email
License:Free
Date:10 Jan 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
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    Jun 4 2009
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    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
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    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
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    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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    Oct 30 2007
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    BLOCKSOFT  I'm a big fan of this little utility - really looking forward to a Leopard compatible version  
    (Version 0.2)

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    Oct 30 2007

    J-A-X  Me too.  
    (Version 0.2)

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