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Monday, February 03 2014
611 MailMate stopped working was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 11:55 AM

    Let me know if you have more information.

613 Removing auto-saved recipients was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 10:58 AM

    I tried ticket in the composer and it seems I do get a sorted list with newest at top (although these addresses are of course useless in the context of completi...

612 conflict Markdown/e-mail conventions was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to fixcommitted
    by benny at 10:40 AM

    2 different bugs were involved here (and a third bug related to this and “SmartyPants” appeared in testing). Part of the issue was quoted signature separators a...

Saturday, February 01 2014
449 Feature request: use external text editor was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 9:38 PM

    Hold down ⌥ when clicking “Check Now” in the Software Update preferences pane (r3984). Implemented today. Very little testing done. Here is what I wrote in the ...

Friday, January 31 2014
615 Crashes when importing email uncaught exception of type std::bad_alloc was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to bluesky
    by benny at 11:36 AM

    Sorry, 1.5 million is out of reach for MailMate. My reply in this ticket describes my current view on what MailMate can handle.

    If your primary activity is to ...

614 Resize subscription window was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to resolved
    by benny at 10:46 AM
    • The bottleneck in MailMate is the number of messages (and not their size). I usually state that < 100K is fine, several 100K can work depending on hardware, m...

  • benny
    benny commented at 9:24 AM

    Are you sure it's not resizable? I don't seem to have any problems with that. We are talking about the sheet shown when clicking “Edit Subscriptions” in the IMA...

449 Feature request: use external text editor was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 9:46 AM

    @Januz/Evans: It's something I would consider and it's certainly a much simpler request than HTML support. In theory, all it would require is that MailMate can ...

611 MailMate stopped working was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 9:38 AM

    If the spinner does not stop then it sounds like it's hanging when trying to check for email. Try this:

    1. Take the accounts offline.
    2. Open the Activity Viewer (⌥⌘...
613 Removing auto-saved recipients was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to accepted
    by benny at 9:22 AM

    You need to remove the related messages in Sent Messages to prevent MailMate from using them for completions. The address shown first should be the one most rec...

Thursday, January 30 2014
611 MailMate stopped working was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 10:11 PM

    I would like to find out what the issue is before you try that. Please open the “Activity Viewer” (⌥⌘0) and see if you can find anything suspicious, primarily i...

  • benny
    benny commented at 9:39 AM

    Look under SOURCES in the mailbox outline and check that all mailboxes are online (not displayed with a grey color). Also check that any INBOX mailboxes are dis...

607 Read/Unread conditions for Smart Mailboxes was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to resolved
    by benny at 10:09 PM

    Sorry, there is no documentation of available conditions yet.

    Not sure about your second condition. It looks like you should set Foo in the Mailboxes pane of th...

609 Gmail IMAP "Unexpected return code 535 (expected 235)" was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 10:05 PM

    This is a different issue. Google has a maximum limit of 15 connections to the IMAP server (from 1 account). If you have multiple devices and email clients then...

  • benny
    • State changed from new to closed
    by benny at 9:55 AM

    I'm pretty sure the problem is that Google is locking you out temporarily because of the messages you have tried to send. It's probably a coincidence that re-ad...

  • benny
    benny commented at 7:43 AM

    Just for the record, this is a problem with SMTP at Google and not IMAP.

    The error message from Gmail is not very specific and the link they provide seems to in...

606 Problem with mailmate running for a period of time causes an unavailable status. was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 8:56 PM

    It never works now or is this the behavior you see after a while?

    Could you restart MailMate, open the Activity Viewer as quickly as possible and then provide t...

605 Snoozing was updated
  • benny
    • Title changed from temporarily discarding of messages to Snoozing
    by benny at 8:51 PM
610 Markdown pre not escaping was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to reproduced
    by benny at 7:56 AM

    Thanks for the report. I can see that this also fails:

    ~~~
    <some tag>
    ~~~
    
Tuesday, January 28 2014
608 full text search was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to resolved
    by benny at 10:50 AM

    You can use “Common Headers and Body” for searching. You can also make this the default using “Edit ▸ Find ▸ Use as Default Search”.

    Your second request could b...

  • benny
    benny edited a comment at 10:50 AM

    You can use “Common Headers and Body” for searching. You can also make this the default using “Edit ▸ Find ▸ Use as Default Search”.

    Your second request could b...

606 Problem with mailmate running for a period of time causes an unavailable status. was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 10:24 AM

    The output above does not include what I added for r3962. Are you sure you were running this version of MailMate:

    This:

    Error: Error while waiting on read or w...
Saturday, January 25 2014
567 Support Remember the milk was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 9:29 AM

    Parameters could be saved within MailMate preferences using the defaults command, but this is of course a low-level solution (no GUI). I'm still considering how...

Friday, January 24 2014
590 Too many connections error was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 2:12 PM

    How many Gmail accounts are online?

    Also relaunch MailMate if you didn't do so.

  • benny
    benny commented at 9:55 AM

    How many Gmail accounts do you have online with this output?

    And you are running r3962 now? (See the About window.)

    You can watch whether or not the new IMAP ba...

567 Support Remember the milk was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 1:34 PM

    Sorry about the late reply, but I guess you have the technical skills and experience with bundles needed now. Let me know if you have any questions.

344 Mailbox offline and can't take online was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 12:26 PM

    @Maciej: Another user reports something similar in ticket #606. Let us move the discussion to that ticket.

606 Problem with mailmate running for a period of time causes an unavailable status. was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 12:25 PM

    Could you hold down ⌥ when clicking “Check Now” in the Software Update preferences pane to fetch the latest test version (r3962). It outputs a little bit more i...

607 Read/Unread conditions for Smart Mailboxes was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 9:51 AM

    The condition named “Tags/Keywords” can be used for the read/unread state, for example,

    “Tags/Keywords” include “Seen”
    

    Or am I misunderstanding you?

    I'm afrai...

Thursday, January 23 2014
605 temporarily discarding of messages was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 3:54 PM

    Renaming folders is not a cheap IMAP action and it gets complicated if you take into consideration that MailMate (or the machine) could crash at any time during...

  • benny
    • State changed from new to accepted
    by benny at 1:34 PM

    This is one of those features where naming it can be a challenge itself. I don't like “discard” since it's not really discarded. In some cases “postponed” would...

600 iCloud offline was updated
602 mark as not junk and move to inbox was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 1:52 PM

    If you mean the “Move Out of Junk” button in the Junk mailbox then it actually moves the message to where it came from (if MailMate knows where it came from). W...

601 reply and archive was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to closed
    by benny at 1:49 PM

    Check the additional toolbar buttons available for the Composer. Look for “Send and Archive”. Currently it has not menu item or shortcuts, but you can create a ...

603 flagging of messages was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to closed
    by benny at 1:40 PM

    Currently double-click is used to search for flagged messages. It would probably be too easy to accidentally remove a flag (and it might be colored although thi...

604 sorting by group of messages was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to accepted
    by benny at 12:51 PM

    There are frequent requests for a more relaxed threading mode than the one used by MailMate now. My own plan for doing this includes arbitrary threading conditi...

590 Too many connections error was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 10:55 AM

    Hold down ⌥ when clicking “Check Now” in the Software Update preferences pane to fetch the latest test release (r3962). I've introduced an IMAP “balancer” which...

383 Signature is inserted twice was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 10:50 AM

    @Ingo: Hold down ⌥ when clicking “Check Now” to fetch the latest test release (r3962). I'm not 100% sure the problem is fixed and I would appreciate some feedba...

  • benny
    • State changed from fixreleased to reproduced
    by benny at 8:59 AM

    This is not the same problem as the original ticket. This problem is triggered by the _ as you noted. I know why it happens, but I'm not sure how to fix it yet....

118 Spotlight integration was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 9:03 AM

    @mariow: Opening it in MailMate is independent of the plugin I believe. Try “File ▸ Get Info” on a .eml file in the Finder and then assign MailMate to be the de...

Wednesday, January 22 2014
595 Emails duplicate in Smart Mailbox, but not in Inbox was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to resolved
    by benny at 8:32 PM

    Yes, this is Gmail behavior. Go to “File ▸ Edit IMAP Account ▸ …” and then “Edit Subscriptions…”. Unsubscribe the Important mailbox.

    You can create a tag in the...

103 Tag/flag/keyword support was updated
  • Steve Rogers
    Steve Rogers commented at 7:32 PM

    One vote here for emory's comment relating to MailTags-something like that would be great in MailMate.

    Speaking of tags, it'd be great to have a simple way (e.g...

  • Steve Rogers
    Steve Rogers edited a comment at 7:53 PM

    One vote here for emory's comment relating to MailTags-something like that would be great in MailMate.

    Speaking of tags, it'd be great to have a simple way (e.g...

600 iCloud offline was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to resolved
    by benny at 6:14 PM

    Thanks for the update. Next time you can use the openssl command to see if MailMate cannot do something that should be possible (MailMate does the same thing as...

  • benny
    benny commented at 8:43 AM

    Just for the record, these settings work for me:

    imap.mail.me.com, no explicit port, SSL enabled
    smtp.mail.me.com, no explicit port, SSL enabled
    

    The username ...

569 Pinch Zoom not working Mavericks was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 6:13 PM

    I'm not on Mavericks at the moment, but I don't think this is a standard
    feature for the Webview used for displaying messages (I might be wrong).
    I'll look into...

565 Markdown compose from clicked email was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to fixcommitted
    by benny at 6:13 PM

    This is because MailMate has no way of knowing that a mailto: body
    text uses Markdown or not. I've changed it such that if there is an
    empty body then Markdown ...

570 Feature request: auto-bracket pasted URLs was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to accepted
    by benny at 1:55 PM

    Maybe some day there will be a general way to change what is pasted or dragged into the composer (also for other reasons), but don't expect it soon.

118 Spotlight integration was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 1:50 PM

    Sorry, it's still not high on my list. Best workaround is to find another Spotlight plugin.