Gmail Growl V1.5 has a bug which causes the program to crash under certain conditions. I hope to have this fixed soon.
If you are affected, you can either
- Go back to version V1.4.1 available here
- Or check with the preliminary V1.6 available here. Please give me feedback if this solves your problem!
- Update, 28-Jul-2009: Please check with the preliminary V1.6.1 available here. It fixes the "Array variable has incorrect number ..." bug, makes the Gmail Push more stable, and is more robust to changing IP addresses and OpenSSL problems.
In addition, there is the new feature to select which of the labels "Inbox", "All Mail" or "Starred" to monitor. - Update, 30-Jul-2009: When using V1.6.1, please make sure the folder "%APPDATA%\Gmail Growl" exists before running Gmail Growl. The final gmailgrowlV1.6.1.msi will include the creation of this folder.
- Update, 7-Aug-2009: The final version of V1.6.1 was released. Please see http://gmailgrowl.blogspot.com/2009/08/gmail-growl-v161.html for details.
All comments, suggestions, feedback, or bug reports are always welcome.
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McAfee still reporting viruses in most files for V1.4.1 and V1.6. This was tested on three different PCs, all with up-to-date versions of McAfee and WinXP.
1.6 seems to have fixed the bug for me. My comp is not reporting any viruses.
I get this error window:
AutoIt Error
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Line -1:
Error: Array variable has incorrect number of subscripts or subscript dimension range exceeded.
Windows 7 32 Bit Here
No Virus Alert by Symantec Corporate Antivirus
v1.6 killed the bug.
Great application...can't wait until Google get their crap together with push and we don't need it anymore, though.
Worked wonderfully yesterday. Today I wake up, no new notifications and plenty of mail in my inbox. I look at Gmail Growl, and on the lower right corner in the status bar it says: No Gmail Push. Any idea?
Oh, I should add that Im doing this to get notifications to my iphone using Prowl and Growl. It worked yesterday, and still works great today for Google Voice so I doubt it's a growl or prowl issue.
Also, notifications still work if I open up Gmail by doing Right Click & Update Now.
@Simon: Do you have DSL and does your provider force a reconnect at night?
Markus, thanks for getting back to me! I'm on cable, not DSL. I do not know otherwise if my provider forces a reconnect. How would I find out?
@Simon: Gmail Growl has an optimization to avoid testing the Gmail Push capaility over and over again on network connections which do not support this, e.g. behind a corporate firewall. Unfortunatly, I did not consider the forced reconnect on DSL/cable connections.
Markus, perhaps it could be available in the settings as an option, or at least periodically? Thanks a lot :)
1.4 works for me, but not 1.6.
Also for me, 1.4.1 works fine, but neither 1.5 nor 1.6 work at all. I am using it on Vista on a small network with a DSL router. My provider does not force a reconnect, and I have a static IP with no problem running other applications or services. Is it possible to configure a firewall exception or set up port forwarding to prevent these problems with Gmail Push?
P. S. -- Thanks for releasing and supporting this great app!
I've tried 1.4, 1.5 and the new 1.6 all reporting viruses on McAfee. I really wish I could get this too work! GRRRRR!
@Alan, did installing 1.4.1 fix it for you?
Can you configure Gmail Growl to check the "All Mail" tag instead of the "Inbox" tag? All mail that is not tagged with "inbox" does get an alert.
@markus I tried installing it on my office computer, on a US University network, which gives static IPs. I get the same problem: in the morning, push notification is gone.
I found the "Array variable has incorrect number ..." bug!
After some final testing, I will provide a preliminary V1.6.1 tonight.
This will also make Gmail Growl more robust in some other aspects like OpenSSL handling and changing IP addresses.
Finally, an experimental way to check for "All Mail" instead of "Inbox" is also included.
Please stay tuned :-)
@Simon, Alan and all others: The preliminary V1.6.1 is available at http://files.getdropbox.com/u/374932/GmailGrowl/gmailgrowlV1.6.1.msi.
@Kia: I'm sorry, but this will most probably not help you. If you download Gmail Growl from this site, it does not contain viruses or other malware. However, some virus scanners report false positives. You can find more background information on this at http://gmailgrowl.blogspot.com/2009/05/false-positives-for-gmail-growl.html
Hey can you upload it to a non-file sharing server? Stuff like dropbox is blocked :(
Looks good. I have a (hopefully minor) feature request: in Windows 7 (and possibly previous versions, I'm not sure) you can choose to only display icons in the system tray that currently have "notifications". It would be nice if any unread mails made the Gmail Growl icon show up under this condition.
With all those new version, after some minutes of working ok, even with a proxy server that needs authentication, it stops working, and only shows "Checking gmail push capability". I have to restart for it to work again.
@Anonymous: I will look for alternatives to DropBox.
@Dana: I have no clue how to do this. Can someone give me a hint?
@Anonioj: If you are using V1.6.1 please fetch the log in "%APPDATA%\Gmail Growl" at the time it stops working. A screen shot from the task managers process page (especially openssl*) would be helpful as well. Please submit it here: https://gmailgrowl.fogbugz.com/default.asp?pg=pgPublicEdit
I'm not familiar with the Windows APIs involved here, but from what I gather I think you'd have to present an actual pop-up balloon, which is probably not ideal. Maybe a better option would be to create a second icon that only appears when there is unread mail, and one can choose to always show this icon but leave the main icon hidden.
I've experienced the same problem as "antonioj", a few comments above. I've experienced this problem with 1.5 and 1.6.x versions. Been going on for two weeks now.
Tried everything, turned off firewall, and other similar things. I'm on Cable Modem with a wireless router. I've noticed, on at least one occasion, that if my router "hickups" that is drops its connection for a second, upon auto reconnect the computer running gmail growl can't seem to navigate through the proxy (although I'm not actually running any proxy), and eventually errors out with "Checking gmail push capability" or lately just an error "4" or an error "8".
I downgraded to 1.4.x today, hopefully that will solve it, I did not have these problems with that version before.
I'd like to say thanks for the Beta fix. I'm a Cisco SSL VPN user, and was having the issue identified in v1.5, but have what appears to be smooth sailing now. Many thanks.
Just to confirm, I uninstalled 1.6.x with which I was having problem described in my post above (same problem with 1.5). Reinstalled 1.4. Four days later, and I havent had any problems. So to the developer: whatever was changed in 1.5/1.6 that causes the app to eventually stop being connected to gmail, pls change it back :)
The download page is now showing as an Attack Site in Firefox... I'm always terrified of giving away my Gmail Password to any third-party app... this is not reasuring.
The final version of V1.6.1 was released. Please see http://gmailgrowl.blogspot.com/2009/08/gmail-growl-v161.html for details.
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