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Monday, July 07 2025
3438 Customize reply header for SimpleLogin was updated in MailMate
  • David
    David commented at 9:02 AM

    By the way, if it helps I can forward an entire e-mail as attachment, so you can easily reproduce. Just let me know where to send it...

  • David
    David created the ticket at 8:44 AM

    Hi there,

    The default reply string/format seems to be:

    defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmReplyWroteString -string 'On %e %b %Y, at %k:%M, ${from.name:${from....

Wednesday, July 02 2025
3423 Mailbox Icon-Color same as Font-Color was updated in MailMate
  • Stefan Seiz
    Stefan Seiz commented at 8:22 PM

    Just installed the update with this change.

    Thanks a ton!

Monday, June 30 2025
3437 Compose new message -> default message syntax was updated in MailMate
  • David
    David commented at 3:05 PM

    Note that if Markdown markup is not used [...] The only real difference from a plain text email is that the Content-Type header says Markdown [...]

    Ah, yes I ...

  • benny
    • State changed from new to closed
    by benny at 11:17 AM

    I don't think you are confused. It did work like this earlier on, but it's a long time ago now (for beta/test releases).

    Note that if Markdown markup is not use...

3436 Inconsistent spacing before signature was updated in MailMate
  • benny
    benny commented at 11:11 AM

    HTML generation is not easy to get right and I tend to forget the small details. There's likely a trigger for the difference which could be related to why HTML ...

3435 Show raw message not working correctly with larger messages was updated in MailMate
  • benny
    • State changed from reproduced to fixcommitted
    by benny at 10:59 AM
Sunday, June 29 2025
3437 Compose new message -> default message syntax was created in MailMate
  • David
    David created the ticket at 9:09 AM

    Hi there,

    if i remember correct, i used to have a setting that would behave like this:

    1. I create a new message
    2. I would then see "Plain text" as the (default) fo...
Friday, June 20 2025
3436 Inconsistent spacing before signature was created in MailMate
  • Mika Raunio
    Mika Raunio created the ticket at 4:09 PM

    Sometimes, my signature gets appended to the HTML part as its own <p> tag (resulting in empty space above it), yet at other times it gets added into the message...

3435 Show raw message not working correctly with larger messages was updated in MailMate
  • Mika Raunio
    Mika Raunio commented at 2:33 PM

    Thanks Benny. Sounds perfect to me. Think that very little would be lost by shortening the base64 segments: if you want to search within those or otherwise see ...

  • benny
    • State changed from new to reproduced
    by benny at 2:20 PM

    This is not new. It should, in most cases, actually work if waiting long enough for the whole message to be displayed by the view. It's a performance issue. Cur...

Thursday, June 19 2025
3435 Show raw message not working correctly with larger messages was created in MailMate
  • Mika Raunio
    Mika Raunio created the ticket at 6:08 PM

    Running 6265 (previous build did this as well), I'm seeing strange behaviour with "Show raw message" with larger messages (more than a few MB), including:

    • The ...
Sunday, June 15 2025
3432 Source Mailboxes for Correspondence View was updated in MailMate
  • benny
    • State changed from new to resolved
    by benny at 6:48 PM
  • X X
    X X commented at 1:45 PM

    Ah, that is a very nifty little feature! I remember there were IDs but couldn't figure out how to get them.

    This is now working as intended. Thanks a bunch, ben...

  • benny
    benny commented at 10:31 AM

    Select the mailbox in MailMate and then hit command-C to copy the value you need to the pasteboard.

  • X X
    X X commented at 8:30 AM

    Thank you. I have copied the correspondence.plist file, but I'm having trouble editing it to get what I want as I'm not familiar with these plist files. I think...

  • X X
    X X edited a comment at 8:30 AM

    Thank you. I have copied the correspondence.plist file, but I'm having trouble editing it to get what I want as I'm not familiar with these plist files. I think...

Friday, June 13 2025
3434 Resizing the HTML preview window is not possible due to twitchy resizer was created in MailMate
  • mailmate-user
    mailmate-user created the ticket at 2:16 PM

    I'm trying to resize the HTML preview window, when hovering the boundary I see the resize icon popping up, but it twitches away so I can't actually resize the w...

3433 Mailmate not saving body text of any new email or any reply was updated in MailMate
  • benny
    benny commented at 9:41 AM

    Sounds like you might be using an old version of MailMate on a more recent version of macOS. Unfortunately, the latest release of MailMate is quite old, but the...

Thursday, June 12 2025
3433 Mailmate not saving body text of any new email or any reply was created in MailMate
  • John Gilreath
    John Gilreath created the ticket at 9:27 PM

    I cannot view the body text of any new email created in any of my threee email accounts.
    Nor view the body text of my responses to any email.

    Relatively new iss...

Wednesday, June 11 2025
3432 Source Mailboxes for Correspondence View was updated in MailMate
  • benny
    benny commented at 1:29 PM

    Ah yes, certainly a very common issue, but I just find it very hard to come up with a good solution.

    The layout file needs to go here:

    ~/Library/Application Su...
Monday, June 09 2025
3432 Source Mailboxes for Correspondence View was updated in MailMate
  • X X
    X X commented at 1:31 PM

    Thanks for clarifying.

    Just for some added context. I suffer from the problem in issue #2145, and implemented the workaround there. Things have been okay for a ...

Thursday, June 05 2025
3431 Where should custom theme mmTheme files go? was updated in MailMate
3432 Source Mailboxes for Correspondence View was updated in MailMate
  • benny
    benny commented at 1:16 PM

    By default this is the “All Messages” mailbox and unfortunately this is hardcoded in the layout-file. In theory, you can make your own layout-file in which you ...

Tuesday, May 27 2025
3432 Source Mailboxes for Correspondence View was updated in MailMate
  • X X
    X X commented at 8:08 PM

    I'm sorry. I meant in the Correspondence pane (where it shows all emails from a specific sender), can I select which messages are included in this pane/list (by...

  • benny
    benny commented at 2:35 PM

    Could you be a bit more specific? Do you mean in the mailbox list or do you mean which messages are included in the correspondence list?

Monday, May 26 2025
3432 Source Mailboxes for Correspondence View was created in MailMate
  • X X
    X X created the ticket at 11:44 AM

    In correspondence view, is it possible to select which mailboxes show up (or alternatively, exclude a mailbox from showing up)?

    Thanks!

Saturday, May 24 2025
3431 Where should custom theme mmTheme files go? was created in MailMate
  • Mika Raunio
    Mika Raunio created the ticket at 1:20 AM

    Back in 2016 (in ticket #1561), you said, regarding custom HTML message themes:

    ... making custom themes. Let me know if you want to know more about that (it's...

Friday, May 23 2025
3430 UX issue with right click to mark all messages as read was updated in MailMate
  • mailmate-user
    mailmate-user commented at 1:19 PM

    Awesome!

  • benny
    • State changed from new to fixcommitted
    by benny at 1:17 PM

    Thanks for reporting this. It is fixed in the next update.

  • mailmate-user
    mailmate-user commented at 9:14 AM

    (I'm on the latest beta)

  • mailmate-user
    mailmate-user created the ticket at 9:13 AM

    I regularly move mails from my Inbox to my Archive folder. Some I don't read so the "unread" mail counter on my Archive folder increases. In Apple Mail (I have ...

3389 HTML mail shows white background where Apple Mail (in dark mode) shows a blac... was updated in MailMate
  • mailmate-user
    mailmate-user commented at 10:29 AM

    Understood. Thanks for the update!

Friday, May 16 2025
3429 Signatures not available was updated in MailMate
  • benny
    benny commented at 3:15 PM

    Have you perhaps used/configured the Address(es) setting in the Signature settings window. This limits which From addresses can be used in connection with the s...

Wednesday, May 14 2025
3425 Screenshot of rendered emails was updated in MailMate
  • benny
    • State changed from new to fixcommitted
    by benny at 12:41 PM

    The latest test release includes a step in this direction with an optional toolbar button (for now, it puts the image on the pasteboard). I'm not sure I think i...

Monday, May 12 2025
3428 Missing permissions after updates was updated in MailMate
  • benny
    • State changed from new to accepted
    by benny at 8:04 AM

    I'm afraid this is an old known issue, but I'm aware of it. (It's not a quick fix.)

    For now, the easiest is probably to have multiple installs of MailMate. (Rel...

Sunday, May 11 2025
3423 Mailbox Icon-Color same as Font-Color was updated in MailMate
  • benny
    benny commented at 10:47 AM

    The accent color is the only color for which it works such that when the line is selected then both text color and icon color switches to white. Just telling th...

Friday, May 09 2025
3423 Mailbox Icon-Color same as Font-Color was updated in MailMate
  • Stefan Seiz
    Stefan Seiz commented at 7:37 PM

    Thanks a lot!

    To clarify, when I say "like the font color", I mean the color the font besides the icon is currently displayed in. So in case in light mode, the ...

  • benny
    • State changed from new to fixcommitted
    by benny at 10:48 AM

    Ok, I'm adding an option to use the “Text Color”. Unfortunately, it does not work well for selected mailboxes in light mode. This only works for the accent colo...

3426 Question: function of "View > Columns > Outline Column" was updated in MailMate
  • benny
    • State changed from new to resolved
    by benny at 9:36 AM

    This setting is only relevant when the option “View > Organize by Thread” is enabled. In this case, the outline column is the one where you'll see the triangles...

3389 HTML mail shows white background where Apple Mail (in dark mode) shows a blac... was updated in MailMate
  • benny
    benny commented at 9:35 AM

    No news on this, but my previous answer still holds. There are other changes planned which would likely lead to improvements in this area as well (or at least m...

Saturday, May 03 2025
3389 HTML mail shows white background where Apple Mail (in dark mode) shows a blac... was updated in MailMate
  • mailmate-user
    mailmate-user commented at 9:15 AM

    Checking in to see if this is still something you plan to work on? It would be great if the HTML view (when reading) and preview (when writing) would be in dark...

Tuesday, April 22 2025
3426 Question: function of "View > Columns > Outline Column" was created in MailMate
  • David
    David created the ticket at 6:32 AM

    Hi there,

    So i read the manual section "View > Messages Outline" [1], and mostly understand.

    What i don't understand is, what exactly does changing the menu "Vi...

Monday, April 14 2025
3425 Screenshot of rendered emails was created in MailMate
  • Marten Lehmann
    Marten Lehmann created the ticket at 11:46 AM

    Firefox has a very handy function called "Take a screenshot" with an icon prominently next to address bar. This allows to save a full rendered website at the re...

Friday, April 11 2025
3424 Make copied text available on clipboard as public.html was updated in MailMate
  • Stephen Chong
    Stephen Chong commented at 3:23 PM

    Thanks, that makes sense, I didn't know about ⌥⌘C to “Copy as HTML”.

Tuesday, April 08 2025
3424 Make copied text available on clipboard as public.html was updated in MailMate
  • benny
    • State changed from new to closed
    by benny at 7:35 AM

    The problem is that it can also be a bit of a nuisance if HTML is always on the pasteboard since some applications will then prefer it even if the plain text ma...

  • Stephen Chong
    Stephen Chong created the ticket at 2:15 AM

    When I copy text from an email displayed in MailMate, it is available on the clipboard only as public.utf8-plain-text. Is it please possible to make the copied ...

Monday, March 24 2025
3423 Mailbox Icon-Color same as Font-Color was updated in MailMate
  • Stefan Seiz
    Stefan Seiz commented at 6:42 PM

    Let me explain (I would have loved to attach a screenshot, but couldn't because you're over Quota):

    In the default, the icons are blue and the text is almost ba...

  • Stefan Seiz
    Stefan Seiz edited a comment at 6:43 PM

    Let me explain (I would have loved to attach a screenshot, but couldn't because you're over Quota):

    In the default, the icons are blue and the text is almost ba...

  • Stefan Seiz
    Stefan Seiz edited a comment at 10:41 PM

    Let me explain (I would have loved to attach a screenshot, but couldn't because you're over Quota):

    In the default, the icons are blue and the text is almost ba...