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Thursday, May 09 2013
392 Unable to send with Gmail was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 8:47 AM

    Maybe related: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/txNEW_06QVc

    Do any of you use email aliases? Does it make a difference if you send from the G...

  • benny
    benny commented at 8:44 AM

    Could you also try setting an explicit port, in particular, 25. The log file I got from Eric uses port 465. (I just tried sending using port 465 without problem...

  • benny
    benny commented at 8:38 AM

    @Alexandre: My 10.8 install is relatively new, but I do install a lot of developer related stuff which might explain it. Sorry about the inconvenience.

    Could yo...

  • benny
    benny commented at 6:59 AM

    The following is a general workaround for SMTP issues. Launch the postfix daemon on your own machine:

    sudo postfix start
    

    Then edit the Gmail account settings ...

  • benny
    benny commented at 6:34 AM

    Ok, we have 3 users with this problem. So far, only reports for MailMate. I don't know if any of you have tried with other email clients (not web interface).

    I ...

393 Crashes in 3384 was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 6:42 AM

    Could you go the General preferences pane and enable the option to send crash reports to me. It is easier for me when crash reports are added to my database.

    I ...

Wednesday, May 08 2013
391 Default search type was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to resolved
    by benny at 10:46 AM

    Look for “Use as Default Search” in the “View > Find” menu. You can read a bit more about it in this (short) FAQ.

    I'll note that I should document this in the ...

Tuesday, May 07 2013
185 Apple Mail 5.0 like thread view was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 6:52 PM

    Sorry, but no. I've only done a bit of work on the multiple webviews mentioned above. The plan is the same though both regarding an alternative threading mode (...

Monday, May 06 2013
390 Crash on directory contact lookup was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to resolved
    by benny at 1:40 PM

    Thanks for looking into it in more detail. MailMate has very little code with regard to the Address Book Panel and I'm not sure I can (easily) do anything about...

  • benny
    benny commented at 1:06 PM

    I cannot reproduce this, but I'm on Lion right now. I'll try Mountain Lion later.

    Until then, do you have access to a secondary machine with Mountain Lion (and ...

387 Markdown support doesn't support escaped characters was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 9:26 AM

    A new test version is available now (r3384).

Saturday, May 04 2013
387 Markdown support doesn't support escaped characters was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 3:28 PM

    It seems the problem is somehow related to how I compiled the sundown executable (I cannot reproduce the problem on my current machine). Unfortunately I cannot ...

  • benny
    benny commented at 2:39 PM

    Thanks, I don't think it is related to my fix, but I did update my version of sundown with the latest changes on github (after doing the fix) and either that in...

389 No sound when counter increases was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to resolved
    by benny at 7:56 AM

    Great.

    If others have the same problem and find the solution in this ticket then I encourage them to add a comment. I'd like to know if I should spend time addi...

  • benny
    benny commented at 5:18 AM

    First check that this system preference is enabled: “System Preferences ▸ Sound ▸ Sound Effects ▸ Play user interface sound effects”.

    If that is not the problem...

54 Request: status bar, primarily to display link targets was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from accepted to resolved
    by benny at 7:53 AM

    See ticket #388 for a solution to the link display problem. A status bar is not yet implemented, but I'll close this for now even though I still plan to have a ...

388 Feature request: Show link target on hover was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from duplicate to fixcommitted
    by benny at 7:51 AM

    Hold down ⌥ when clicking “Check Now” in the Software Update preferences for a test version with a solution for this problem.

  • benny
    • State changed from new to duplicate
    by benny at 6:07 AM

    This is also covered by ticket #54. I haven't found an easy way to do like Apple Mail, but I'm currently looking into it again since a status bar (as mentioned ...

Friday, May 03 2013
270 yahoo can't login was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 5:15 PM

    Great, just in case someone has the same question: “Double-click the account under SOURCES in the mailbox outline. Look for the port setting for the IMAP server...

387 Markdown support doesn't support escaped characters was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from reproduced to fixcommitted
    by benny at 11:01 AM

    All my changes to sundown can be seen here.

Wednesday, May 01 2013
387 Markdown support doesn't support escaped characters was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 7:18 PM

    And 'marked 0.2.6'. RedCarpet is also based on sundown, so it makes sense that it fails in MailMate as well.

  • benny
    benny commented at 7:09 PM

    Ah, got it now. Apparently there is a bug in the Markdown converter (I use a slightly altered version of sundown). I'll look into it, but it may take a while if...

  • benny
    • State changed from new to reproduced
    by benny at 6:52 PM

    It actually works, but it's not obvious because MailMate is a bit too smart in this case. MailMate keeps an eye on whether any Markdown syntax is actually used ...

386 Out of Office Reply was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to closed
    by benny at 6:46 PM

    Sorry, that is not a feature of MailMate. It'll be possible when MailMate becomes more scriptable, but I'll probably never make it an integrated feature. It's a...

385 Return Receipt was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to bluesky
    by benny at 4:15 PM

    Sorry, there is no such feature in MailMate. Naturally, such a feature would also rely on the recipient of the message to support it. I don't really know how wi...

Monday, April 29 2013
376 impossible to write ^'ed characters was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 7:52 PM

    I cannot reproduce this problem. I tried with the French keyboard layout. If it's not working in your browser then the issue might be something else?

    I assume w...

384 Correct order of conversations was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to closed
    by benny at 1:20 PM

    Are you sure about this? I don't think the 'minutes' of a day plays a role in what you see. My guess is that this is related to how MailMate threads messages. W...

Thursday, April 25 2013
383 Signature is inserted twice was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 7:56 PM

    Yes, you are right. I'm stripping extraneous whitespace when creating signatures, but this code failed for lines with only whitespace, because there was no last...

  • benny
    • State changed from reproduced to fixcommitted
    by benny at 3:06 PM

    The problem is triggered by the line which only contains a single space:

    SW10 0QJ
    [ ]
    Office number: +44 (0)20 xxxx xxxx
    

    You can fix the problem by removing t...

  • benny
    • State changed from new to reproduced
    by benny at 1:26 PM
Wednesday, April 24 2013
383 Signature is inserted twice was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 12:46 PM

    Thanks for the detailed description. To make it easier to reproduce the issue then I would like to have the following file:

    ~/Library/Application Support/MailM...
Saturday, April 20 2013
338 Option to download attachments only on request was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to accepted
    by benny at 7:27 AM

    Thanks for trying out MailMate.

    Note that Gmail throttles the traffic and therefore you are probably synchronizing very slowly now. It may be better to take the...

Thursday, April 18 2013
381 Keep failing to handshake was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to resolved
    by benny at 7:18 AM
Wednesday, April 17 2013
382 How do I white list email correspondents to appear with all graphics loaded? was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to closed
    by benny at 4:38 PM

    The settings controlling this is in the Security preferences pane, but it is non-trivial to make a whitelist as you describe. An advanced solution is described ...

381 Keep failing to handshake was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 4:31 PM

    The Activity Viewer is available in the Window main menu or using ⌥⌘0. It's not related to an error message.

    Also, I believe Google has had some problems with G...

  • benny
    benny commented at 6:05 AM

    Do you get an error message/window?

    You can also open the Activity Viewer (in the Window menu) and review the log of a connection attempt (retry after opening t...

120 Edit draft saved elsewhere was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 8:46 AM

    You can fetch a test version by holding down ⌥ when clicking “Check Now” in the Software Update preferences pane (r3333).

Tuesday, April 16 2013
378 mmap failure misinterpreted (?) as missing file (?) was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 1:50 PM

    I don't think it is a race condition (for now). Large files (memory starvation) may be a more likely trigger since you have a very large database in MailMate. H...

380 No option to disable offline sync was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 11:47 AM

    Very understandable. Just to emphasize: It is possible to synchronize a subset of your mailboxes (using “Edit Subscriptions...”) in case there is a subset which...

  • benny
    • State changed from new to closed
    by benny at 10:56 AM

    Sorry, MailMate is currently a fully offline email client for IMAP. The only way to limit what is downloaded is to unsubscribe mailboxes (or use a very experime...

379 Mail going into Junk was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 7:12 AM

    The recipient controls any junk filtering, either on the server (like Gmails automatic junk detection) or the email client (like MailMate with SpamSieve).

    One c...

Thursday, April 11 2013
120 Edit draft saved elsewhere was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 2:30 PM

    I have only tested editing of plain text drafts with iOS 5 on an iPhone. Editing simple drafts appears to work both ways.

  • benny
    • State changed from reproduced to fixcommitted
    by benny at 2:27 PM

    The behavior of MailMate in the next release:

    • Never allows drafts from other email clients to be sent.
    • Allows simple drafts from other email clients to be edit...
377 MailMate crashes when editing draft with inline images was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to fixcommitted
    by benny at 8:13 AM

    I believe I've fixed this bug. You can fetch a test release by holding down ⌥ when clicking “Check Now” in the Software Update preferences pane.

    Thanks for the ...

Tuesday, April 09 2013
376 impossible to write ^'ed characters was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from fixcommitted to fixreleased
    by benny at 8:37 PM

    It's available as a beta now and in a short while I'll make it a public release.

  • benny
    • State changed from reproduced to fixcommitted
    by benny at 6:01 PM

    I have fixed it and I'll have an update out later tonight. Sorry about the inconvenience.

  • benny
    • State changed from new to reproduced
    by benny at 3:31 PM

    I can reproduce it now. The Danish layout is different and I missed which ones did not work. It seems it is only a problem for those not requiring a qualifier (...

  • benny
    benny commented at 3:15 PM

    I need to reproduce it first. Could you provide a bit more detail. Keyboard layout? How you try to write it?

375 archiving was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 2:18 PM

    Great. Bonus info: If you set the Synchronization Schedule of the mailbox to “Connected” then MailMate also keeps the Archives mailbox instantly up-to-date (lik...

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