Most mail.app users will have noticed that OS updates can break their plugins and third-party bundles.

This happens because Apple now changes the UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) of Mail with every update, and requires plugins to match the new UUID each time in order to function. Thankfully, most developers are on the ball and provide updated versions of their plugins in good time.

GrowlMail, a notification plugin for mail.app that uses the Growl framework, fell prey to this problem after the 10.6.4 update.

If yours is broken, you can download a patched version of the plugin from the developer’s web site.

He also provides new plugin compatibility UUIDs that may bring other disabled bundles back to life.

Further help for other disabled plugins (like DockStar) is available in a macOSXHints tip .

UPDATE: 5 July 2010 A new version (1.2.2) of GrowlMail has been released, which is compatible with 10.6.4.mail.app, apple mail, plugins, growlmail, growl, notification

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Tags: Apple Mail, growl, mail.app, plugins

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