Gmail+Growl is a plugin for the notification utility Gmail Notifier.

It shows notifications via Growl for new emails delivered to your Gmail account.

Running the app sets the preferences for the alerts:

You can choose to see the Address Book pictures of the senders and to open the email by clicking on the notification with the browser of your choice.

A second pane allows you to customise the content and layout of the alert:

The resulting notifications are pretty and informative:

You need, obviously, to have Gmail Notifier running for this to work.

Gmail+Growl is freeware and is available from the developer’s web site .gmail, growl, notification, alerts, plugins, gmail notifier, email

Google has updated its Gmail Notifier for Mac OS X app.

The new version (1.8.2) is a universal binary. It is also smarter about looking for updates and downloading them.

An additional tweak that restricts notifications to a particular Gmail label works fine with the new version.

A clever plugin for Gmail Notifier, Gmail+Growl , has also been updated to match the new release of the parent app.

Gmail+Growl works with Gmail Notifier to send notifications to Growl .

The new version (1.6.5) gets a new icon to match. It also offers a new feature. According to the release notes ,

holding shift and clicking notifications will dismiss them instead of opening their link (if you have them set to open normally; otherwise it *will* actually open them, since it inverts that setting). Handy for dismissing sticky notifications or just opening select messages.

(This news is slightly stale. Sorry about that. It happened while I was away.)gmail, Google, growl, notification, hacks, plugins

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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MacBiff is a “biff” program that sits in the menubar and polls multiple IMAP accounts for new mail.

Unlike many notification utilities, though, it takes full advantage of the functions and flexibility of IMAP servers and folders.

If you are looking for a powerful and flexible mail-check utility for your IMAP accounts that also works with Growl, you will want to read the rest of the review and see the screenshots after the jump.

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That’s it.

Get the new version (including the updated GrowlMail) from the Growl web site .

Gmail+Growl, a notification utility for Gmail that works with Growl, has been updated.

In the new version, clicking the notification will open up the message in a web browser. You can choose which browser it should use.

Growl is a utility that provides notifications, or on-screen messages, when events occur in other apps. It can also provide pop-up notification (?ɬ† la MailAppetizer) for Mail.app (and a growing number of other apps).

Gmail+Growl is freeware and is available from the developer’s web site.