Growl for Thunderbird

Amorelli · Post by **Amorelli** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 2:21 pm

Is there a way to make growl notify u of things that happen in thunderbrid the way it does in Mail?

twistermc · Post by **twistermc** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:14 pm

I second this. I would really love to see Growl and Thunderbird work together!! 8)

dlaporte · Post by **dlaporte** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 4:49 pm

If you download Thunderbird 1.5rc1, you can use the Yamb extension to call growlnotify. Yamb is available at:

http://www.globs.org/index.php?lng=en

and the wrapper script you'll need is here:

http://www.globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=9

I've had issues with Growl getting seriously messed up when opening Thunderbird in the morning with *lots* of notifies coming in. It's supposed to be fixed in 0.8.

twistermc · Post by **twistermc** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 8:54 pm

I'll try that when the new Thunderbird comes out. Thanks

Argelius · Post by **Argelius** » Sun May 14, 2006 4:04 pm

Hate to be stupid, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do this.

I've downloaded:
Growl, YAMP, and the growlnotify Thunderbird Script.

I'm sort of clueless about what to do with the last piece.

I've followed the seemingly comprehensive tutorial at: http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2005/Nov/04 ... rbird.html

But am confused at the section "install growlnotify yamb script." The terminal command specified int he tutorial isn't working for me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

twistermc · Post by **twistermc** » Sun May 14, 2006 5:05 pm

There must be a way to use an extension to send something to Growl and make this so much easier.

Argelius · Post by **Argelius** » Sun May 14, 2006 5:06 pm

twistermc wrote:There must be a way to use an extension to send something to Growl and make this so much easier.

That's what I was hoping for, too!

Mitar · Post by **Mitar** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:35 pm

I made an extension which adds this feature to Thunderbird through growlnotify command line utility:

https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/3448/

visiondr · Post by **visiondr** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:21 am

Mitar wrote:I made an extension which adds this feature to Thunderbird through growlnotify command line utility:

https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/3448/

No luck for me on this one. Mitar's extension didn't work.

Mac Mini/10.4.8/Thunderbird 1.5.0.7

Alexome · Post by **Alexome** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:53 pm

The extension by Mitar works:
https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/3448/

Make sure you first install growlnotify before installing the extension:
http://growl.info/documentation/growlnotify.php

"1. Download and mount the Growl .dmg file
2. Run terminal from Applications/Utilities
3. in terminal type: cd cd /Volumes/Growl/Extras/growlnotify/
4. in terminal type: sudo ./install.sh
5. this will ask you for your password, type in your password
6. you are done."

cbthutch73 · Post by **cbthutch73** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:22 pm

I've tried just about everything that everyone has suggested and I'm still having problems getting growlnotify and Mitar's Thunderbird extension to work. Following Alexome's directions, this is what I get:

cp: /usr/local/bin/growlnotify: No such file or directory
cp: /usr/local/man/man1/growlnotify.1: No such file or directory
Installation complete. Please add /usr/local/bin to your PATH if you have not already. Consult your shell's documentation if you do not know how to do this.

So, it says installation is complete, but that no such file or directory exists. And the extension does not work.

And no, I don't know how to do what it tells me to do (add /usr/local/bin to your PATH if you have not already) or if it has been done already. I'll be frank, I'm not a programmer, just a Mac enthusiast with just enough tech knowledge to be dangerous!

Probably a programmer's worst nightmare, huh?

Anyway, if someone could send me some exact, step-by-step instructions of how to do this, or point me to where I could find them, I would appreciate it.

Thanks!

Post by **bgannin** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:26 pm

Not your fault, Growl should take care of steps such as this automatically. I'd greatly appreciate it if someone would file a Trac ticket for automatic growlnotify installation as a reminder.

KAMiKAZOW · Post by **KAMiKAZOW** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:29 pm

Mitar wrote:I made an extension which adds this feature to Thunderbird through growlnotify command line utility

Do you have any plans to update that extension? An option for "sticky" should be there and mails marked as Junk should not display a notification.

Mitar · Post by **Mitar** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 5:23 am

Stickiness should be enabled through Growl preference panel in system preferences and not through application.

Growl centralizes all your notification preferences into its preference pane - you can control them all from one place, and you know exactly how they are going to behave.

If Thunderbird recognizes your folder as bulk folder, notification should not be shown.

KAMiKAZOW · Post by **KAMiKAZOW** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 2:59 pm

Mitar wrote:Stickiness should be enabled through Growl preference panel in system preferences and not through application.

Oh yes. Sorry, forgot about that.

Mitar wrote:If Thunderbird recognizes your folder as bulk folder, notification should not be shown.

If you use TB's junk recognition, those junk mails first go into the inbox. Before TB's junk filter has even a chance to analyze those mails, Growl Notifier reports about new mails. YAMB+Script does not.