Comments on: Growl notifications with Entourage 2008

By: alex

alex — Wed, 19 May 2010 23:31:44 +0000

dude, pure awesomeness!!!… big thanks, exactly what I was looking for! also good ReadMe btw….

By: Growl notification script for Mac OS Mail

Growl notification script for Mac OS Mail — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:33:36 +0000

[...] I created a script to enable Growl notifications for Entourage, complete with subject, from and the first part of the email, I have adapted the script to work [...]

By: Al Cook

Al Cook — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:49:59 +0000

I found if Entourage was receiving a large number of messages my system got absolutely spammed by growl notifications and i couldn’t do anything. i fixed this by adding a sleep timer of half the length of my growl notification duration – this limits the number of open notifications to 3 max.

My change is in the section below:
if msgPri is greater than -1 then
tell application “GrowlHelperApp”
– Register ourselves
register as application “Entourage Growl Notifier” all notifications allNotificationsList default notifications enabledNotificationsList icon of application “Microsoft Entourage”
– Notifiy Growl
notify with name “New Email” title (msgSubj) description (“From:” & msgFrom & return & “Message:” & msgText) application name “Entourage Growl Notifier” priority msgPri sticky msgStick image from location msgIcon
end tell
end if
– ARC wait so we don’t spam the growl
– delay 2 apparently that’s CPU inefficient
do shell script “sleep 2″

By: Al Cook

Al Cook — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:53:16 +0000

Very useful, works perfectly. Thank you for your time!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:41:00 +0000

Eric, error 16002 is usually related to database corruption, Google the error number and you will find instructions on how to rebuild it. Does the problem go away if you remove the script and the rule?

By: Gilles

Gilles — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:41:08 +0000

Thanks, working perfectly for all my accounts (Exchange, IMAP,..)

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:12:08 +0000

Hi, I installed this script. And I think I have put them in right folder.
But error message still pops up, not like those mentioned in previous posts:
it is:

The script encountered error “Microsoft Entourage got an error: an error of type 16002 has occurred.” during execution.

Can you give me some advice on this problem? thanks!

By: piratepinion

piratepinion — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:37:14 +0000

thank you! i hadn’t seen that you actually have to create the rule for each type of account (pop, imap, exchange, etc.). i had created the rule only for pop-accounts, selecting also my exchange server account as a part of that rule. that didn’t work, obviously. thanks to your comment i looked a bit better. it works very well now!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:29:17 +0000

You need to configure the incoming email rules for every account in Entourage, I have exchange, POP and IMAP accounts and they all work the same.

By: piratepinion

piratepinion — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:05:17 +0000

it works for me, but only for pop-mail, not for imap-mail i get through an exchange server. is there any special setting to make it work for imap-mail too? i recently discovered growl and i am starting to like it a lot. if it would work for my imap/exchange server mail too, that would make my life complete… (slight exaggeration)!