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GrowlMail not working in Mail 4.5

After upgrading to 10.6.7, Mail 4.5 gives me a message saying that GrowlMail (the latest version 1.2.3) is no longer supported. Are others seeing the same thing? I assume an update from Growl will be required but just wondering if anyone is having success getting the current version to work.

iMac, MacBook, iPad, iPhone, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Mar 22, 2011 9:01 PM

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Robin Bonathan

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Posted on Mar 22, 2011 9:14 PM

I got growl mail to work again afterwards.

You need to change 1 info.plist file. (use textedit to modify)

With mail off.

Go to your user login directory and follow this path:-

~/Library/Mail/Bundles/GrowlMail.mailbundle/Contents/
Info.plist

open up info.plist

and in the area under <key>SupportedPluginCompatibilityUUIDs</key>
Then add:
<string>9049EF7D-5873-4F54-A447-51D722009310</string>
<string>1C58722D-AFBD-464E-81BB-0E05C108BE06</string>

save the file and now Growl is once again working...

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BarrieG

Level 1

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May 22, 2011 2:10 AM in response to Fredo

and a thanks from me too 🙂

lawero

Level 1

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Nov 9, 2011 3:59 AM in response to Robin Bonathan

Typical, it had to be complicated with me!

OK, so I had growled installed before, but I couldn't find it anywhere, so I installed it again.

It didn't work with mail (or anything for that matter, tho I didn't give it a chance - I only tested mail). All the applications were showing in the list of applications in the Growl Menu.

So, I tried what is in this post. Only trouble is in the section you mention there are two folders: Bundles (with nothing in it) and Bundles (Disabled) (which has the files you talk about in it. I added in the two lines above the 10 or so other lines and saved. Restarted mail, restarted mac. Nothing. No notification for new mails.

I then uninstalled everything again and manually removed the files it says on the Growl Website. It didn't mention to, but I also put the two 'Bundles' folders in the trash (but didn't delete) to see if Growl, when I installed it again, but add a new folder in. It didn't.

I uninstalled Growl again and put the folders back and then re-installed Growl.

None of my applications showed in the preference list.

So I closed and opened mail. Nothing. I restarted the mac. Now Omnifocus shows, but no other applications.

Any ideas?

PS - I'm on version 10.6.8

GrowlMail not working in Mail 4.5