MailWidget
This widget for the Apple Dashboard announces the arrival of new mail. It is a direct extension to Apple Mail. But Apple Mail does not have to run all the time in background. The usage is very simple and intuitive. Download it and try it yourself.
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Information
Version 3 of MailWidget was completely rewritten using Dashcode in order to fulfil the demands of the users. If you experience problems with MailWidget or you want to give feedback, don't hesitate to contact me.
Personalising audio feedback
NOTE!
If you experience problems after updating, you need to log off and log in again or reboot your computer to make all changes effective.
The support for Tiger has been dropped. The latest version that will support Tiger is 3.08.
ATTENTION!
A bug in MailWidget 3.05 prevents it from fetching updates automatically. The update has to be performed manually.
If you cannot adjust the volume then there is a problem with QuickTime on your system so MailWidget is unable to load it. This may be due to some installed QuickTime Components. In that case QuickTime is not used for playback. MailWidget does a fallback to a command line utility which does not allow adjusting the volume. This fallback only works on Leopard and Snow Leopard.
Version history
Features for the next release
- Support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 accounts in Mail
- Betters support for Growl allowing to launch Mail and receive mails by clicking on the Growl bubble
- Scaling MailWidget to 1/4 of its original size
- More reliable audio feedback (avoids the QuickTime issue described above)
- Faster launching of MailWidget when you have more than a handful accounts
New in version 3.08 (if you are using Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger then you want this one)
- Changed behaviour so MailWidget does no longer check for mails after waking up when it was set to check only when Dashboard is being activated
- Fixed problem with playback of the default announcement sounds in Snow Leopard
- Fixed displaying problem where account names contained Unicode characters in the account list
- Improved reliability with IMAP servers
- Fixed compatibility to IMAP servers that do not stick tight to the IMAP protocol
- Improved reliability on fetching header information (sender and subject)
New in version 3.07
- Auto update now quits the Dock with a different command so the Dock does not crash on restart
- Improved reliability on fetching header information (sender and subject)
- Fixed issue where MailWidget did not verify IMAP, Exchange and MobileMe accounts which were completely empty
- MailWidget now quits all connections to mail servers when it is being removed from Dashboard
- Improved checking reliability
- Workaround an issue where no account list is available
New in version 3.06
- Fixed the bug, which prevented MailWidget 3.05 to initialise completely if custom audio feedback has been set up
- Reversed assumption about the line breaks a server required to improve compatibility (now CRLF by default and not LF)
New in version 3.05
- Fixed issue where Sender and/or Subject of a mail was truncated or undefined
- Fixed issue with no Growl notification showing up even the header information was displayed correctly on the widget
- Updated third party source code
- Added Copy & Paste functionality to the front side for mail composing with attachment and to the audio settings for customising sound files
New in version 3.04
- Auto Update setting is now honoured
- Unicode characters like Japanese are now displayed correctly (but not in Growl notifications on Tiger)
New in version 3.03
- Solved an issue with very full POP3 servers
- Changed update procedure to work around the Dashboard (WebKit) cache problem
- MailWidget now shows a changeable name on the front to distinguish multiple instances
New in version 3.02
- Improved compatibility to Apple Mail 2 in Tiger
New in version 3.01
- Solved an issue with GMail IMAP accounts
New in version 3.00
- Complete rewrite and port into Dashcode
- One instance of MailWidget is able to check all your accounts
- Customisable audio feedback
- Adjustable volume
- Drop files on MailWidget to send them as attachment