Growl Notifications for MSOutlook (Any Version)
Growl is very good tool for local and remote notifications, we can compare it with libnotify in Linux plus growl is already available on multiple platforms, So now I want to use it with Microsoft Outlook to notify me when new email arrives, but unfortunately there is no Add-on available for growl after Outlook 2007 onwards, so I did the work for myself, basically it is too simple to write a procedure in VBA for Office (Macros) but the only drawback is that you need to allow macros (security involved) OR sign it with Digital Certificate (money involved)
So less talk more action 🙂 , Install Growl for Windows from this link.
Open outlook and Press Alt+F11 to open Visual Basic for Application (VBA) Editor
Private Sub Application_NewMailEx(ByVal EntryIDCollection As String)
Dim varEntryIDs
Dim objItem
Dim i As Integer
Dim MailIcon As String
dim GrowlNotifyApp As String
GrowlNotifyApp = """C:\Program Files (x86)\Growl for Windows\growlnotify.exe"""
varEntryIDs = Split(EntryIDCollection, ",")
For i = 0 To UBound(varEntryIDs)
Set objItem = Application.Session.GetItemFromID(varEntryIDs(i))
Set a = Application.Session.GetItemFromID(varEntryIDs(i))
'Sending notification to Growl
'Register the application with Growl, Open cmd run the following command, if growl is installed at default location
'C:\Program Files (x86)\Growl for Windows>growlnotify.com /a:Outlook /r:"New Message" /ai:C:\Mail.png .
' Send a New Message notification
Shell (GrowlNotifyApp + " /a:Outlook /n:""New Message"" " + _
"/t:""New mail from " + objItem.SenderName + """ " + _
"""" + objItem.subject + """")
Next
End Sub
That’s it, you just need to download the Mail icon from this link and save it at C:\ (you can change the location on your drive and can change the icon but update the line /ai:C:\Mail.png)
This script works like a charm and does the work well – thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing your feedback, highly appreciate your input!
I’m getting the following error when running the command:
C:\Users\Kathy>C:\Program Files (x86)\Growl for Windows>growlnotify.com /a:Outlo
ok /r:”New Message” /ai:C:\Mail.png
‘C:\Program’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Any ideas?
use double quotes ” at both ends
e.g “c:\\program files\growl\growl.exe” /a:outlook etc.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Like the code sample in my post
GrowlNotifyApp = “””C:\Program Files (x86)\Growl for Windows\growlnotify.exe”””
Thank a lot.
If possible and not very difficult, how it would be done to open each email when you click on the corresponding Growl email notification ?.
Sorry for my English.
Possible,
We need to search the email with subject in INBOX and Open the searched email!
We can also add, Reply option in the Growl notification
im olApp As Outlook.ApplicationDim olNs As Namespace
Dim Fldr As MAPIFolder
Dim olMail As Variant
Dim i As Integer
Set olApp = New Outlook.Application
Set olNs = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set Fldr = olNs.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
i = 1
For Each olMail In Fldr.Items
If InStr(olMail.Subject, "Subject_we_already_have_in_growl_notification") <> 0 Then
olMail.Display
i = i + 1
End If
Next olMail
End Sub
Oops, my bad
Right now growl can’t do that, We need to write our own notification application to do such things OR edit growl code to add that functionality