Fraser Speirs’ Growl AppleScript
If you didn’t read Fraser Speirs’ “Talking Mail.app” interview, you might have missed his mention of a nifty little AppleScript for Growl 
that he has written.
The script can be attached to a Mail.app rule and will send the From and Subject headers of an email to Growl’s notification pop-ups.
You can get the script from Fraser’s wiki .
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Tags: Apple Mail, applescript, fraser speirs, growl, mail.app, notification, rules
March 7th, 2006 at 1:56 am
I actually cobbled together something very similar to this for my own use (Fraser’s is cleaner). The two features I’d like to add, but haven’t figured out how to, are:
1. Show sender’s picture if it is in the Address Book
2. Clicking on the notification opens that message in Mail.
Let’s see if the lazyweb comes through.
March 7th, 2006 at 7:08 am
I’ve been using GrowlMail (included with the Growl distribution), which is limited to account-based notifications. It’s much too noisy whenever new messages arrive in my primary IMAP account and trigger rules that seem to confuse it.
Some specific rule-based notifications using Fraser’s script would probably be a more effective alternative, providing mailbox-level Growl notification granularity that GrowlMail lacks. It’s fine not getting notifications for new messages that arrive and remain in the main inbox since I check it often enough, plus I think the new mail sound gets triggered anyway.
Thanks for the reminder to look into this, Tim. And for making Hawk Wings my most convenient and productive one-stop
distractionresource for Apple Mail-related stuff. :-)