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DESCRIPTION
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 unintented 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.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.2:
- Added an attachment indicator icon in the upper right of the notification window.
- Added an option to keep the notification window visible even when Mail is the active application.
- Added an option to use a monospaced font.
- Mail is no longer brought to the front if the notification appears while Mail is hidden.
- Changed the behavior of auto-hiding notifications when there is more than one message. Now after the specified time has elapsed, the next message will be displayed rather than hiding the window. Once all messages have been viewed, the window will hide.
- Fixed a bug where notification window could automatically hide even when the mouse was over it.
- Fixed a bug related to Spaces where Mail would become the selected application instead of Finder.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
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| Herald User Reviews (22 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Mar 10 2010 |
JPINONIEMI I've been looking for something to replace mail.appetizer since 10.6 was released. Thank you!
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 | Feb 4 2010 |
YOGI COACH An amazing Mail add-on - genuinely useful, just the right amount of features and a well-thought out user interface. I rarely give a five star rating to software as there's usually some deficiency, but I can't think of anything that Herald is missing (especially with the latest 1.2 update). Great work! I was more than happy to give the author a $10 USD donation and encourage others who find this useful to follow suit.
(Version 1.2) | |
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| Feb 3 2010 |
GCOGHILL Great little Mail add-on. Dare I say it's perfect now with the 1.2 features added? Happily donated.
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| Nov 11 2009 |
WAJISIN I've been using Herald for a couple of days now. I'm happy to say that I no longer miss mail.appetizer, and I was happy to make a donation - a price I paid for the quick update to 10.6.2. I like the font used, and the little dark window sits nicely in the lower left hand corner on my 24 inch LED Cinema Display. I had no trouble installing, or setting the applications preferences. Also, Herald is a nice little name - all we need now is small trumpet alert sound! Thank you Erik.
(Version 1.1) | |
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| Nov 10 2009 |
SHADYMAC Absolutely brilliant, after finally getting it to work, thanks to the developer who took the time to help out and provide some pointers was very fast with the support too! I will be definitely making a donation when I get paid next week! This is something I need since I have some visual impairment this app makes things smooth and easier to read, I highly recommend it works pretty fast and alerts me to emails immediately! Thanks to dev for the support, much appreciated!
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| Nov 10 2009 |
RANDYHARRIS I had been using Mail.Appetizer for several years and was always frustrated by how slow it was modified to work with system/Mail updates. When 10.6.2 came out the other day and Mail.Appetizer broke again without a fix I started to search to see if there may be something else that was similar. Luckily I discovered Herald. For me, Growl isn't the best Mail notification system, it can pound your screen with a ton of notices when you first log into Mail and you don't really get a chance to view them, additionally you can't mark a mail as junk, delete, etc. from the Growl notification. Herald does all of this and with a really nice translucent window, Additionally it's great having the avatar show up, I'm a visual person and instantly know who an email is from by the avatar that shows up, it's nice to not have to read who it is from even though that information is also displayed. I won't miss the old notification that I used to use. In fact I'm so tickled pink with this that I happily made a donation for the great work. It's something that I appreciate every single day I use my computer, and for that nicety I'm happy to spread a little love.
(Version 1.1) | |
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 | Nov 10 2009 |
ERIC DURBROW Does anyone know if this works with the new 10.6.2 Snow Leopard upgrade? Is it an alternative to GrowlMail?
(Version 1.1) | |
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| Nov 10 2009 |
RANDYHARRIS version 1.1 is working fine for me on 10.6.2
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| Nov 9 2009 |
SHERMAN WILCOX Great utility, does what it says, gorgeous design. Now compatible with 10.6.2 and new features to boot. Still free!
(Version 1.1) | |
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| Nov 9 2009 |
JUSTANTHRGUYHERE Works as advertised! This does what it's designed to do and does it well!
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