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MailEnhancer: Counting new mail in every folder

MailenhancerHaving prematurely buried MailEnhancer in the Plug-in Graveyard, I owe it a proper plug.

Although its most valued feature under Panther (allocating sigs to particular accounts) has now been incorporated into 10.4, it still offers features that some people will find valuable:

  • It will show the Activity Viewer when doing a manual mail check. (Although the Activity Viewer is always only a keyboard shortcut away — Command-0[Zero]).

  • It makes Apple Mail’s Dock icon count show all unread messages instead of just the ones in the inbox. Very handy if you use rules to move emails out of your inbox into other folders before you read them. (Of course, MailUnreadStatusBar can keep an eye on whatever local folders you tell it to).

Because it is an older plug-in, some people report that Mail 2.0 will refuse to run it. If you have problems, try the following:

  1. Quit Mail

  2. In Finder, look at your ~/Library/Mail folder. Make sure that MailEnhancer is in a folder called “Bundles”. It might be in a folder called “Bundles (Disabled)” if you were running it before 10.4.1 or have tried to run it without success. If it is, move it to the “Bundles” folder or rename “Bundles (Disabled)” to “Bundles”.

  3. In Terminal, type:

    defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles 1

  4. Then type:

    defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion 2

  5. All done. Relaunch Mail.

The developer no longer has a website, but you can download it from Versiontracker.

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4 Responses to “MailEnhancer: Counting new mail in every folder”

  1. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » The Plug-in Graveyard says:
    October 13th, 2005 at 3:47 pm

    [...] MailEnhancer is very much alive. MailEnhancer gave us signature matching for specific accounts, made the dock icon count all unread messages, not just those in the inbox, and launched the Activity Viewer on a manual mail check. It was the first ever plug-in I installed. (Sebster writes in the comments to this entry that reports of MailEnhancer’s death (by me) are greatly exaggerated. It works fine, although the developer’s website is down. Excellent! Get it from versiontracker.) [...]

  2. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Finding the Activity Viewer says:
    December 17th, 2005 at 12:12 am

    [...] Install MailEnhancer. Although some of its features are now included in Mail.app under 10.4, it will still automatically bring up the Activity Viewer when doing a manual mail check and it will count all your unread emails not just the ones in the Inbox. Technorati Tags: Apple Mail, MailEnhancer, Mail.app, email [...]

  3. Sebastian says:
    January 25th, 2007 at 9:23 am

    The plugin doesn’t seem to work anymore. :(
    I installed it successfully, but the settings pane doesn’t appear.
    I’d really love to have the mail count of all unread messages. Isn’t there another plugin to achieve this?

  4. Dave Chapman says:
    February 11th, 2007 at 3:23 pm

    I just tried MailEnhancer on my G4 iBook and it worked.
    I tried it on my intel iMac and it didn’t work.

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