The minor bump of the version number hides the fact that a number of small features have been added to MailMate in the passing month (see the list below). This release supports Mac OS X Snow Leopard, but, as previously noted, you should expect version 1.6 to require Mac OS X Lion.
Here are the most interesting changes since version 1.5.1:
- New “Synchronization Schedule” submenu for the Mailbox menu to configure how often individual mailboxes are synchronized.
- “Send and Archive”, “Reply All”, and “Flag” are now available as optional toolbar buttons.
- Inlined images are now rotated according to EXIF data in images (Mountain Lion only).
- Added “Reply to …” to the context sensitive menu of addresses in the headers view.
- Now respects the first/last name ordering of individual contacts in the “Address Book” (“Contacts” on Mountain Lion).
- Automatic handling of
winmail.dat(TNEF) files. This is an experimental feature for expert users. Feedback is welcome. - Low level feature can be used to add custom email headers to outgoing messages.
- Improved handling of OpenPGP and S/MIME. Now MailMate properly handles signed/encryped body parts in
multipart/mixedMIME messages. - Various IMAP fixes/workarounds including a number of fixes to handle ‘
\‘ and ‘"‘ correctly. - SMTP code now correctly handles lines prefixed with one or more dots.
- And more…
Detailed release notes can be seen here.
Aw, cheese and crackers! I’m still on Snow Leopard for the foreseeable future, thanks to Eudora (which is eventually resolvable, if I can find a good POP client to replace it) and MS Word 2004 (which is not, thanks to MS removing keyboard access to the Styles palette in Word 2011). I’ll be sad when MailMate leaves me behind.
Posted by Eric A. Meyer on January 30th, 2013.
@Eric: Several IMAP providers allow one to fetch mail from POP3 accounts and put them in an IMAP mailbox. For experts it would probably also be possible to use a combination of fetchmail, postfix, and a local IMAP server to imitate POP3 support in MailMate :-)
At the time of writing the users of current versions (public or betas) of MailMate are distributed like this: 78.2% on Mountain Lion, 14.2% on Lion, and 7.7% on Snow Leopard.
Posted by Benny Kjær Nielsen on January 30th, 2013.
Oh, I understand that it doesn’t make sense to keep up Snow Leopard support forever. We all had to leave OS9 behind at some point, after all. I’d just hoped to have more time before the axe fell.
I’ll probably eventually replace Eudora by pulling my archives (20+ years of deeply folder-organized mail) into http://www.mailsteward.com/ and switching my last POP account over to IMAP, even though doing so will mean a significant disruption and retraining period. I’m fairly confident it would take less time and cause me pain than trying to emulate POP via IMAP.
Posted by Eric A. Meyer on January 30th, 2013.
I’m sad to read this. I’m in the middle of trying to help solve this problem of why MailMate crashes on my mail account and now I read that I’m about to be abandoned.
I have a Mac Pro on 10.6.8. Mountain Lion gives me no reason whatsoever to update to it over 10.6.8. 10.6.8 is solid and does all that I need. (I use 10.8.2 at work on a MacBook Pro so I know what it’s like.)
I may still try and help solve this bug I’m working on with you but I doubt I’ll be buying MailMate after my 30 days is up if you are going to abandon Snow Leopard :(
Posted by Riot Nrrrd™ on February 6th, 2013.
@Riot: Thanks for still working with me on the bug. I’ll keep the last 10.6 version of MailMate online. And I do understand your reasons for not upgrading to 10.8.
Posted by Benny Kjær Nielsen on February 7th, 2013.
To get to detailed release notes from my RSS reader, I have to click through to your blog, then to the notes. C’mon… it’s not like clicks get you more money or anything…
Posted by Kaspar on February 15th, 2013.
@Kaspar: I didn’t know that the RSS feed did not default to full text. I’ve changed the Wordpress settings now and it should work as expected in the future. Sorry about the inconvenience and thanks for making me aware of this.
Posted by Benny Kjær Nielsen on February 16th, 2013.