GrowlMail not working in Mail 4.5

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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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Mar 22, 2011 9:14 PM in response to Fredo

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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Fredo Author

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Mar 23, 2011 12:23 AM in response to Robin Bonathan

Cool, I'll give that a try. I'm not technical so just wondering if you see the impact of this change coming back to cause problems in the future. is this something that shouldn't really affect anything else or is this risky for some reason. Just wondering. Thanks.

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Mar 23, 2011 1:13 AM in response to Fredo

Each time mail is updated it needs updated strings for plugin to work.
My mail plist has all the previous strings in for every update since snow leopard came out in.

if you like keep a backup of the file but you should not have any problem in future.

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Fredo Author

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Mar 23, 2011 1:53 AM in response to Robin Bonathan

It seems to be working well. Thanks.

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dechang

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Mar 23, 2011 11:11 PM in response to Fredo

Thanks for the tip! GrowlMail works fine now. I just added the two lines above the other lines and saved the file, restarted Mail, and it's working like a charm. Thanks again.

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Mar 25, 2011 12:04 PM in response to Robin Bonathan

Thank you so much for the advice on that. This happened to me this morning and this worked like a charm. The only thing is my file was in a Disabled Bundles folder. I made the change there and it didn't work so I moved the growlmail.bundle file into the other folder that didn't say disabled and it worked perfectly. Mahalo again.

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Mar 25, 2011 12:09 PM in response to tr05prius

i expect it was in the disabled folder as you probably ran mail on startup of new update and it would have been moved by the OS to ovoid confusion.

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Mar 25, 2011 6:59 PM in response to Robin Bonathan

Excellent! Thanks for your help!

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Outpost

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Mar 26, 2011 9:25 AM in response to Fredo

Someone at the Growl help group posted a fix for GrowlMail:

http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss/browse_thread/thread/c3eae39d0304a6e a

I haven't tried it. I thought I'd let you folks try it first -- heh.

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Mar 26, 2011 2:13 PM in response to Outpost

Seems to work, growl mail works; thanks.

http://code2k.net/assets/files/MailPluginFix-1.0.0.zip

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A.Sen

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Mar 26, 2011 6:21 PM in response to Andrei P.

This works like a beaut!! I was a little scared at first, but its free, and so far so good. So I'd go for it.

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Mar 29, 2011 9:24 AM in response to Robin Bonathan

I'm so glad when smart techie people figure these things out and, more importantly, shares them. 🙂 Thanks!

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L Martin

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Mar 30, 2011 7:05 AM in response to Robin Bonathan

Sweet! Thanks a lot for your help! It was very easy to add in. It took a little till I found the right file.

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radiorob

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Apr 12, 2011 9:12 AM in response to Robin Bonathan

Thank you for yet another excellent help post. I'm up and running again
Tony

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Afrizen

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Apr 14, 2011 10:05 AM in response to Robin Bonathan

Just adding my name to the list of previously stumped and now happily satisfied GrowlMail users thanks to this informative post. Much appreciation!

~Mark->

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