Why doesn't Growl Mail work ALL the time?

[bully worm]

Anyone else having this problem?

I have 10.6.4 with the latest version of Mail and GrowlMail. Sometimes, it decides to show me the notifications and sometimes it doesn't.

I've already checked to see if I enabled the settings correctly in Syst.Pre/Growl
and Mail preference as well.

Anybody want to drop some knowledge?

 

[sadcamper]

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20100618233944277

 

[fanchee]

There is a setting in preferences that I believe is checked by default... "only notify when Mail.app is in the background."

So if Mail is your active app, you won't get notified via Growl.

I was wondering the same thing, why it didn't seem to *ALWAYS* work and then I found that setting and sure enough, I was only NOT getting notified when Mail was the foreground app.

Just a thought!

 

[Xavier]

It would be nice to receive notifications of new mail without the Mail application running.

 

[bully worm]

There is a setting in preferences that I believe is checked by default... "only notify when Mail.app is in the background."

So if Mail is your active app, you won't get notified via Growl.

I was wondering the same thing, why it didn't seem to *ALWAYS* work and then I found that setting and sure enough, I was only NOT getting notified when Mail was the foreground app.

Just a thought!

yeah I have that unchecked but I'm still not receiving notifications 'always'.

 

[Weaselboy]

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/32744/herald

If you don't want to use Growl, I found I nice Mail plugin called Herald that has notification similar to Growl for new email. It seems to work well.

 

[bully worm]

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/32744/herald

If you don't want to use Growl, I found I nice Mail plugin called Herald that has notification similar to Growl for new email. It seems to work well.

Very nice! I'll definitely give this a try while continuing to find out why GrowlMail doesn't work all the time!