Temporary solution for Mail.app/Growl Mail errors with Safari 4 Beta
http://www.safari4beta.com/2009/02/safari-4-beta-and-growl-mail.html
http://www.safari4beta.com/2009/02/safari-4-beta-and-growl-mail.html
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Mail.app crashes after installing Safari 4 beta?
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I know this might not be popular in a thread about GrowlMail but have you guys ever tried Mail Appetizer from http://www.bronsonbeta.com/mailappetizer/beta/ ?
It gives more options that GrowlMail and has not crashed once on me despite it being beta1. Your mileage may vary though.
It gives more options that GrowlMail and has not crashed once on me despite it being beta1. Your mileage may vary though.
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hey there,
after messing around all day with my mail and growl, i also found that the safari 4 beta(!) is responsible (OS X 10.5.6 on MB Pro).
solution if you want to have growl running and those new shiny features in safari don't impress you too much:
-download the safari install package, there's an uninstall package included.
-run this
-afterwards you're back to the latest safari 3. something version
-now delete the growl mail bundle from user/library/mail/bundles
-download the install package for growl (google it)
-reinstall growl mail from the extras folder
now everything should run smoothly
good luck!
hey there,
after messing around all day with my mail and growl, i also found that the safari 4 beta(!) is responsible (OS X 10.5.6 on MB Pro).
solution if you want to have growl running and those new shiny features in safari don't impress you too much:
-download the safari install package, there's an uninstall package included.
-run this
-afterwards you're back to the latest safari 3. something version
-now delete the growl mail bundle from user/library/mail/bundles
-download the install package for growl (google it)
-reinstall growl mail from the extras folder
now everything should run smoothly
good luck!
Slightly different work-around
Hi - if you want to stick with Safari 4 beta, simply disabled growl from within Mail.app prefs and that seems to stop further crashing. This leaves Growl still running for other apps/notifications. I still have Safari 4 beta running, and no mail crashes for almost 24 hours now.
Of course, to do that you need to go offline so that you aren't receiving any emails otherwise you just crash again. Hope we get a Growl update soon; I hate being growless when it comes to email!
Hi - if you want to stick with Safari 4 beta, simply disabled growl from within Mail.app prefs and that seems to stop further crashing. This leaves Growl still running for other apps/notifications. I still have Safari 4 beta running, and no mail crashes for almost 24 hours now.
Of course, to do that you need to go offline so that you aren't receiving any emails otherwise you just crash again. Hope we get a Growl update soon; I hate being growless when it comes to email!
Kudos to MegaMan!!
Peter Hosey is the Lead Developer at the Growl Development Team. This is his blog and his explanation of the issue, with temporary fix. They stated they hope to have resolved for the Growl 1.1.5 release.
http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2009-02-24/safari-4-beta-and-growlmail
Apple officially recognise this and endorse the workaround:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2626
Perhaps there's room for a special growl notification upon successful instal of Safari 4
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2626
Perhaps there's room for a special growl notification upon successful instal of Safari 4
I had the same issue, however it only specifically affected my MobileMe email. If I quickly took MobileMe mail account offline in Mail.app as soon as it opened then it would remain open and not crash, as soon as I took MobileMe online again it would crash.
Removing the GrowlMail app from the Growl preference pane as well as the growl bundle from the two Library/Mail locations seems to have solved my issue. I never really used growlmail anyway (it would randomly not work anyway!!) so it's no great loss for me.
Interesting bug though, but this is the idea behind public Betas, none of us can complain at all, any other way would risk this bug not being discovered until it was formally released and then people would moan!
Thanks for the suggestions guys, you've solved my issues and I'm happily enjoying Safari 4...so far I'm very very impressed!
Removing the GrowlMail app from the Growl preference pane as well as the growl bundle from the two Library/Mail locations seems to have solved my issue. I never really used growlmail anyway (it would randomly not work anyway!!) so it's no great loss for me.
Interesting bug though, but this is the idea behind public Betas, none of us can complain at all, any other way would risk this bug not being discovered until it was formally released and then people would moan!
Thanks for the suggestions guys, you've solved my issues and I'm happily enjoying Safari 4...so far I'm very very impressed!
You can download an updated version of the GrowlMail package here http://www.elusive.cx/2009/02/26/safari-4-and-growl-a-fix/. It allows you to continue using GrowlMail notifications (with the message summary) alongside the Safari 4 beta.