* On 24 Feb 2011, Puneet Kishor wrote: 
> I have seen a few posts integrating mutt with Growl on Mac OS X, but
> they seem to rely on an external mechanism to download the email or
> query the IMAP server. Since I am using just mutt and its built-in IMAP
> capabilities, is there a way I can have mutt kick off a Growll notice
> telling me I've received email, and showing me a few lines of the
> message?

I wrote a patch to implement this within mutt's normal mail notification
routines.

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06508.html

If I were approaching this from scratch today, I would probably take a
different approach.  However I've been running this patch for nearly a
year without problems; it does work.  It depends on an external library,
cGrowl, referenced in the mutt-dev post above. cGrowl implements the
growl UDP protocol (port 9887) used by MacOS.  The more formalized
protocol used by Growl for Windows and targetted by MacOS Growl is not
supported.

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