Publisher's Description
From Erik Hinterbichler:
Herald is a notification plugin for Mail.app, Apple's Mac OS X email client. Inspired by the excellent Mail.appetizer plugin, Herald shows you popup notifications whenever you receive new Mail. It also allows you to perform common actions directly from within the notification window, including deleting messages, initiating replies, viewing messages in Mail, or marking messages as read. Herald's appearance is highly customizable, allowing you to change the background color, text color, size, shadow, transparency, and position of the window. Herald even provides a scrolling text view so you can read full messages without having to switch back to Mail.
Note: Mail plugins are not officially supported by Apple. While Herald has been thoroughly tested, it's possible it may cause unintended conflicts with Mail or with other unofficial Mail plugins, especially after OS updates. It's recommended that you backup your computer before installing Herald or any other Mail plugin, and always before installing any updates to Mail or OS X.
What's new in this version: New icons for Retina MacBook Pro.
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"So much better that ML's Notifications!"
Version: Herald 3.0
Pros
You can evaluate each message as it arrives, and respond/delete/ignore as you like. Very easy to customize, and the Developer updates within days of each new Mac version.
Cons
It freezes the Mail application when Herald is loading new messages-the only con I can think of, and it's Pros heavily outweigh this one annoyance. I've communicated with the Developer about this--he is aware and says he can't solve the issue yet.
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"couldn't live without it."
Version: Herald 2.1.2
Pros
Solid and inobtrusive. Rapid updates when MacOS or Mail.app updates break it.
Cons
None None.
Summary
Does what it is supposed to do. Allows me to do many other things on my Mac and be alerted when new mail comes in but is still in the background. The summaries allow me to disregard unimportant messages and keep working on whatever I was doing, or take care of business immediately.
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"Perfect Add-on"
Version: Herald 2.0.2
Pros
An extremely valuable / useful application that works flawlessly with LION.
Cons
None that I have come across.
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"Excellent until Mail updated to 4.5. No longer works"
Version: Herald 1.2.3
Pros
Unobtrusive, allows screening of mail in foreground
Cons
No longer compatible with the latest version of Mail.
Summary
Fix it SOON. Pleeze...
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"Not compatible with Mail 4.5 :-( Please fix, thanks"
Version: Herald 1.2.3
Pros
Was great until updated to Mail 4.5
Cons
incompatible with Mail 4.5
Summary
Needs to be updated, it's a GREAT program
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"Super pratique"
Version: Herald 1.2.2
Pros
légèreté, possibilité de trier les messages avant de les ouvrir dans Mail
Cons
rien - nothing
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"It's ever ready and handy."
Version: Herald 1.2.1
Pros
It never requires opening like some apps. I can find out what I need to know without having to open Mail and then going through a procedure to return to what I was doing.
Cons
It can be distracting when I am concentrating on a project and won't go away without clicking. When I receive multiple eMails at once, I have to keep clicking to get rid of them. Better that than having to remember to turn Herald on.
Summary
One of the best applications I have downloaded. And it is free. I have not encountered any glitches or conflicts.
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"MANY, MANY THANKS!!!"
Version: Herald 1.2.1
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
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"Great!"
Version: Herald 1.2
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
As a fan of MailAppetizer, I think Erik did a great job on this add-on for Mail. Keep up the great work! -
"Can´t live without it !!!"
Version: Herald 1.1
Pros
Great AddOn for Mac Mail.
Good graphics and options.Cons
Still searching !!!
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