Herald plugin brings notifications and quick actions
Erik Hinterbichler has created a plugin, inspired by the well-loved MailAppetizer, that offers the same polished notifications when new mail arrives, and adds the option to perform some quick actions from the notification pane itself.
As an added bonus it’s ready to run in Snow Leopard now, while MailAppetizer is still being made Snow Leopard friendly.
It offers a customisable notification pane, with four icons on the bottom which allow you to delete, reply, open the message in amil.app or simply mark it read:
Herald comes in an installer package, but installs itself as standard plugin bundle in the Bundles folder of your Mail folder. It adds an additional pane to Mail’s Preferences.
The first tab allows you to specify whether the notification pane should be permanent or dismiss itself after a user-defined number of seconds. It also offers the option of opening the message in Mail’s main window or in a separate window of its own.
The second tab control the background and font colours and the level of transparency in the notification:
The third pane provides the ability to specify which mailboxes it polls for incoming emails, providing you with good control over just how bothered you want to be, and by what kind of emails:
If you like having your email in your face all the time, a utility like this will do the job very well.
Herald is donation-ware and is available from Erik’s web site 
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Tags: Apple Mail, mail.app, mailappetizer, notification, plugins, Productivity
October 27th, 2009 at 2:24 am
Really great, I’m using it since its out.
October 27th, 2009 at 3:12 am
hi, i’ve been reading regularly your blog since your posts are actually very useful and many tips of yours i integrated into my daily work.
i was considering removing your site from my daily reading-bookmarks because i thought the blog was dead.
glad i didn’t! one of the first posts and already a hit with the herald plugin!
so welcome back and keep up the excellent work!
October 27th, 2009 at 4:23 am
Compared to mailappetizer Herald has a nice ability to change the appearance of the notification window (bg color etc.). Mailappetizer does have the ability to change the font which is more important to me than the appearance of the window. Hopefully Herald will incorporate this ability shortly. Mailappetizer does have beta activity for SL that appears to work: http://www.bronsonbeta.com/mailappetizer/developmentsnapshot/
October 28th, 2009 at 12:12 am
Thanks for posting this ! I’m using Herald now since Mail.Appetizer isn’t ready yet, but I still prefer Mail.Appetizer.
Herald’s notification window is too big and intrusive for me. With Mail.Appetizer I can make the window small (show only the sender and subject line of the email) and I can have it pop up in the lower right corner.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Hi. I just downloaded the 10.6.2 update from Apple, and Herald doesn’t work with it. Will an update to Herald be coming out soon? I very much enjoyed using Herald. Thank you.
November 10th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Hi Stuart,
I released version 1.1 today which has support for 10.6.2 along with some other improvements.
http://erikhinterbichler.com/software/herald/#releasenotes
Erik
February 4th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Just a heads up, I’ve update Herald to 1.2 today. Check out release notes here:
http://erikhinterbichler.com/software/herald/#releasenotes
Erik