Preview incoming Apple Mail with Mail.appetizer

Filed under: Macintosh, E-mail, Freeware, Beta

Preview incoming Apple Mail with Mail.appetizer

by Simon Kerbel Mar 27th 2008

Mail.appetizer is a handy little plugin that enables you to preview incoming Apple Mail right on your Mac desktop. The Mail.appetizer window shows you the subject, sender, and a brief snippet of the message.

Once the plugin is installed (and Mail is restarted), you'll have a new Notifications option in your Mail preferences, with options to change:

Which mailboxes show the notifications
The font and size of the notification text
Transparency
Time to display the message

Mail.appetizer is in beta, and the plugin has a few known issues. But if you've been looking for a simple tool to preview your Mail messages on your desktop a la Entourage style, then we would give Mail.appetizer a shot.

There are currently builds for both Tiger and Leopard.

[via Cool OSX Apps]

Tags: Mail, mail preview, MailPreview

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Josh said 9:06PM on 3-27-2008

Or, you know, you could install Growl and have notifications for just about every program you have on your Mac.

aanidaani said 10:05PM on 3-27-2008

Exactly what I was thinking. I could have sworn that Growl already had a plugin for mail.

Josh said 10:07PM on 3-27-2008

It does have one. I use it and see a message pop up every 30 minutes or so telling me of a new email.

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