If you aren’t familiar with Growl, be sure to read the MacGems article by Rob Griffiths, Growl 1.1.4 . Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications. Growl is donationware.
Use Growl in Entourage for notifications
- when you receive messages using a Rule
- and to notify you when you backup Entourage using an Automator action.
Install Growl
Growl is an easy install (just double-click the preference pane in its disk image). Select the “Sticky” checkbox in the Growl preferences for Entourage notification if you want them to stay up until you close it. See the Growl Setup instructions to make your personal selections for how long the notification window stays up. Download Growl
Use Growl in a Rule
This rule should be at the top of your rule list. If you use SpamSieve, place the rule just below the SpamSieve rules. Rules run in the order they are listed from the top down.
Example of notification. Each message will show in it’s own window.
Download Script or view script to copy/paste into your Script Editor. Just drop the script into the Entourage Script Menu Items folder within the Microsoft User Data folder.
Use Growl with Automator Action
In previous articles we described how to backup Entourage using an Automator workflow. You can add this Automator action at the end of the workflow for notification.
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Maybe you want to link to my article, where I provide scripts and images for showing notifications with more details, and formats according to the urgency of the email:
http://the.firehou.se/2008/06/04/growl-notifications-with-entourage-2008/
Thanks for the post!
By the way… if you have SpamSieve, this application itself can provide Growl notifications for your incoming e-mails. You don’t have to create a rule.
I prefer the Growl notification, but it appears that if I click on the Growl notification, it doesn’t open the message like it does with Entourage’s builtin notification. Is there any way to get that to happen?
You know I forgot about that option in SpamSieve. Thanks for reminding me.
You could probably do this using an AppleScript . Under Action add Run AppleScript xxxx. Sorry, but I don;’t have the scripting knowledge to know how to script this.
I’m assuming you would want to modify the “All messages” criteria. Having tons of spam messages opened wouldn’t be my idea of useful.
Great article Mike! I added a link at the bottom of the article and posted a link in the Entourage Help Page index.