GrowlMail breaking Mail after Safari 4 Beta Installation

February 25, 2009 by Vijay Kiran

After installing the latest security update on Mac OS X 10.5.6, Mail began to crash on startup. It printed out the message saying the problem may be because of the GrowlMail plugin. Disabling the Growl and removing the GrowlMail plug-in didn’t help. I’d to remove the GrowlMail.mailbundle from both the ~/Library/Mail/Bundles and /Library/Mail/Bundles. Now the Mail is running fine. I stopped using GrowlMail sometime back, when it started “growling” for all the old messages, it was annoying and becoming similar to Windows notifications.

Update: The issue has been posted on GrowlMail’s forum

http://travisonrails.com Travis

Thanks for the tip!
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Yes, thanks for this, had exactly the same problem. Posted it on the Apple discussion forums but no one seemed to know there, so I’ve posted a link to this post there as well.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2080212&tstart=0
Khim

i like the design of Safari 4 but i think it uses more resources compared to Opera.
melatoninplus

Safari 4 is a bit slow compared to either Opera and Firefox. but i like the interface and graphics of Safari 4, it is cool though.