Growl Mail doesn't work

[philonous]

I just installed Growl 1.1.3b2 and GrowlMail, but I do not get the appropriate pref pane in Mail. The bundle seems to have been installed correctly in /library/mail/bundles/ but no go.

Oh, please help me with this. I really miss GrowlMail.

I'm on Leopard.2, G4 867 MHz

[tagscuderia]

I've got the same problem, I installed Leopard yesterday and updated to 10.5.2 this morning to find that Growl didn't work.
Since then I've installed beta 2 and have tried installing GrowlMail as an optional install but nothing.
Everything says it's installed and working but I too am missing the preference pain in Mail which leads me to believe that something's not quite right?!
Hopefully someone has a clue or...the final release is just round the corner.
Thanks.

[jmarte]

In Mail, make sure you shut it down and reopen it after you install growlmail. When you open the mail preferences, take a look at the top of the preference window. On teh right side, you will have to click the arrows to access the rest of the preferences (including growlmail prefs). Either do that or resize the window. However, even after finding them I could not get it to work.

[philonous]

I have done all that. I even logged out and back in, but no pref pane anywhere in Mail preferences.

This is SOOO disappointing. I'm back to using the Growl rule.

[batobin]

Ditto. I even uninstalled Growl 1.1.3b2, re-installed 1.1.3b2, removed /Library/Mail/Bundles/GrowlMail.mailbundle, re-installed GrowlMail 1.1.3 beta, and no dice. No errors in Mail.app, no preference pane, no clues.

[philonous]

that's where I am, too. Are you on PPC or Intel? I have an old PPC G4 PB. I wonder if that's the problem.

Payam

[arnoz]

I have a MBP (Intel) and have the same issue, as discussed in another thread. I also tried to uninstall/reinstall without success.

[batobin]

I have a new BlackBook. Also having the same problem on my Mac Pro.

[f4dxic]

GrowlMail from beta3 finally works with some digging in my settings.
It turned out that after installing beta2, Mail.app (10.5.2) had deactivated bundles in it´s plist.

So, if the new beta won´t show up in your Mail.app, look in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist for the string

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<key>EnableBundles</key>
	<false/>

and change

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<false/>

to

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<true/>

Additionally, you might have a look in /Library/Mail for the GrowlMail.mailbundle to be placed in the folder "Bundles" and not "Bundles (deactivated)"

[batobin]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiice. Fixed my issue.

FWIW, I had seen this tip in other places on the net, but I assumed that b/c this GrowlMail beta addressed Leopard Mail.app problems that I shouldn't do it. Maybe this should be incorporated into the documentation somewhere.

Thanks.

[bgannin]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiice. Fixed my issue.

FWIW, I had seen this tip in other places on the net, but I assumed that b/c this GrowlMail beta addressed Leopard Mail.app problems that I shouldn't do it. Maybe this should be incorporated into the documentation somewhere.

Thanks.

Or it could 'just work' instead

[philonous]

So, if the new beta won´t show up in your Mail.app, look in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist for the string

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<key>EnableBundles</key>
	<false/>

and change

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<false/>

to

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<true/>

Bless you, that did the trick. The new Growl mail rocks!!

FWIW, if you use the plist editor, you have to change the "enablebundles" option from "no" to "yes".