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Growl experts - help me figure out how to do this...

xraydoc

xraydoc

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Calling all Growl experts...! I need your help and expertise.

Here's what I'd like to do -

I would like to be able to configure Growl to pop up a notification when an email is received from a specific sender. But I'm not quite sure where to even begin (other than having Growl installed).

I have a desktop machine at home that's always running and connected to the 'net, so it could run anything necessary.

It's not a Google mail account, so Google Notifier isn't an option, but virtually any other method would be ok. I have Apple's Mail client running in the background at all times on this machine if that's a good starting place.

Any advice?
 
I'd setup a Mail rule so that when a message from Person X is received, it runs an AppleScript that in turn displays a Growl Notification.

Give me a while and I'll post an AppleScript.

EDIT: Here's a quick AppleScript. Copy it, save it as a script, setup the proper Mail rule to run it.

Code: 
tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
	notify with name ¬
		"Test Notification" title ¬
		"New Message" description ¬
		"You've got a new message." application name ¬
		"Growl AppleScript Sample" icon of application "Mail"
end tell
 
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Thanks! I'll give that a try.

Here's another question - how easy is it for computer A (running Mail and the script above) to signal a Growl notification on computer B (internet connected but in a remote location; not on same LAN)?
 
xraydoc said:
Here's another question - how easy is it for computer A (running Mail and the script above) to signal a Growl notification on computer B (internet connected but in a remote location; not on same LAN)?
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That depends on the connection protocol. If I was to do that, I'd use my already established AIM inter-computer network to relay the messages automatically.
 
How do I setup a growl notification whenever I get an email?

With sender and short preview.
 
SHADO said:
Not true the latest version works in Lion.
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What Growl or Growl Mail?

Growl Mail is definitely broken and no longer supported. See the link a few posts up.

Growl is working fine.

And I suppose if you want you can hack the Mail UUID's and maybe get Mail working again.
 
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