GrowlMail and old bundles = big hassle

bmckee · Post by **bmckee** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:49 pm

Hi All
Installed Growl, thought was interesting.
Installed GrowlTunes and GrowlHardware - all ok.
Installed GrowlMail and the cursing began.

It never registered in the control panel.
Launching Mail did not show the message view pane
(but you could open one manually)
The Mail icon in the dock never updated to show unread mail.
Mail would not quit - you had to force quit it.

After lots of mucking about and uninstalling/reinstalling/uninstalling
anything that kinda even smelled like Growl, permissions repair and
more cursing - I did what I should have done first and looked at the system logs.

From that I was able to determine that an old mail plugin I had
(Daniels httpmail in my case) installed and not used since Jaguar
was starting, and Mail hung... Deleted it and Mail started working again.

Hopefully this helps somebody else.

I'd like to suggest that somebody update the documentation at
http://growl.info/documentation/growlmail.php
to refer the new installer, and mention that other bundles
may conflict or be re-activated by the GrowlMail install process
and cause problems, and where to look for conflicting packages.

I'm now trying to decide if I risk installing Growl again...

Brian

Post by **The_Tick** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:03 pm

If you don't have any other mail bundles that are 3 years old installed, you should be fine.

bmckee · Post by **bmckee** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:52 am

Shows I have good backups and data retention schemes doesn't it ?

I went ahead and reinstalled and looking fine.
Thanks for a great project, hope my venting didn't come out to critical.

Documentation update suggestion was my only real point.

apers0n · Post by **apers0n** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:00 pm

Thanks, that saved me a lot of trouble:

I installed GrowlMail and Mail.app kept crashing on opening. Deleting all signs of GrowlMail made no difference. Restoring mail settings also did nothing. I read this post and found an old version of PGP, deleted it, and everything works fine, now I've just got to reinstall GrowlMail...

bmckee · Post by **bmckee** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:53 pm

Glad to be of help.

It's been working great for me ever since - don't hesitate to reinstall.

zerock · Post by **zerock** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:47 pm

goodie you, my growlmail hasnt worked for a while, its upsetting.

Post by **The_Tick** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:34 pm

zerock wrote:goodie you, my growlmail hasnt worked for a while, its upsetting.

Start a new thread. You've got a bigger problem than these other folks do.