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 .growl, notification, mail.app, apple mail, applescript, rules, fraser speirs

Fraser Speirs runs Connected Flow , the developer of FlickrExport and Xjournal . He’s based in Greenock, Scotland and when not writing software to deal with digital pictures, is usually out taking them.

His first Mac was a Mac Plus in high school, eventually graduating to a Performa 450, a Performa 6400, a G3/266, a dual-500MHz G4, a Quicksilver 800MHz G4 and, today, a 1GHz PowerBook G4. He impatiently awaits the arrival of his Macbook Pro.

HW: How long have you been using Mail.app? What other clients have you used (and why did you stop)?

FS: I’ve been using Mail since Mac OS X 10.0 shipped. In the past, I’ve used Claris Em@iler – which I still consider to be the application that took usability to a whole new level on Mac OS – Outlook Express and Bare Bones’ Mailsmith.

I forget exactly why I stopped using Em@iler – I think it had problems on later OSes or something.

I used Mailsmith since it was 1.0, and I still think it has the best implementation of a UI for setting filter criteria that any developer has implemented, anywhere.

The main reason I stopped using Mailsmith was that I discovered IMAP and couldn’t live without it. Mailsmith doesn’t support IMAP and I’m not sure it ever will. I still toy with switching back to Mailsmith, but it’s easy to switch between clients that support IMAP – not so easy to commit to a POP-only client.

After I became an IMAP junkie, I used Outlook Express for a while. On the whole, it wasn’t a bad client.

HW: What plugin and extensions do you use to make your email experience better?

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