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Thursday, February 14 2013
344 Mailbox offline and can't take online was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 3:51 AM

    I have a problem with the OS calls used for checking the availability of a server. In theory MailMate should be notified when a server becomes available, but th...

343 Icons greyed out was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 3:45 AM

    What layout are you using? (See the View ▸ Layout menu.)

342 Add option to display quota usage was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to accepted
    by benny at 3:05 AM

    I'll mark this as accepted, but note that it is close to being a bluesky feature, i.e., you should not expect it soon.

Saturday, February 09 2013
340 very unresponsive/high CPU usage for over half hour was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 9:59 AM

    First, sorry for the late response.

    That does sound much slower than it should be. How many messages do you have on this machine already? (The everything-is-a-s...

Friday, February 08 2013
341 OpenPGP encrypted mail send error was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to resolved
    by benny at 6:26 AM

    Glad you found the problem. Somewhat related I've found the following setting in .gnupg/gpg.conf to be useful if you want gpg2 to automatically look for public ...

Thursday, February 07 2013
341 OpenPGP encrypted mail send error was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 10:30 AM

    Thanks for the feedback.

    Error codes can be found here. Unfortunately INV_RECP 0 is

    0 :: No specific reason given
    

    You can enable security related debug outpu...

339 add affordance for fully expanding a collapsed message was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to closed
    by benny at 10:03 AM

    You can create a custom key binding for expandThread: if you like to bind it to a specific key, but by default OS X supports holding down ⌥ when either clicking...

332 MailMate aborts during first run was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 3:26 AM

    Yes, please send it by email: http://freron.com/contact

    It should be the last one. Maybe you should zip it first, for example, use “Compress ...” in the Finder ...

Wednesday, February 06 2013
339 add affordance for fully expanding a collapsed message was created
  • Al Chou
    Al Chou created the ticket at 3:56 PM

    It would be great to have a keyboard shortcut to fully expand a collapsed message and its descendants. The converse would also be sensible, though personally I ...

Monday, February 04 2013
332 MailMate aborts during first run was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 4:48 PM

    I went ahead and created a test version for you. Fetch it by holding down ⌥ when clicking “Check Now” in the Software Update preferences pane. You should get r3...

  • benny
    benny commented at 1:23 PM

    Thanks for the feedback. Using a different machine shows that the problem is likely to be a particular message (I assume the account is one of the same as used ...

Thursday, January 31 2013
337 Address Panel is empty was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to fixcommitted
    by benny at 10:20 AM

    I've added a warning when opening the Address Book panel if MailMate is not allowed to access Contacts (I already do this for the “Add to Address Book” menu ite...

  • benny
    benny commented at 10:01 AM

    Check your settings in the “Privacy” pane of the “Security & Privacy” preferences pane in the System Preferences. Is MailMate allowed to access Contacts?

Wednesday, January 30 2013
336 [Minor enhancement] make long thread arcs more visually distinct was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 10:03 PM

    I'll keep the ticket open for some color/arc GUI settings.

335 Trying to Delete Dummy Account--Red Messages was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from fixcommitted to fixreleased
    by benny at 3:40 PM
  • benny
    • State changed from accepted to fixcommitted
    by benny at 11:58 AM

    @Steve: Hold down ⌥ when clicking “Check Now” in the Software Update preferences pane. You should then get r3238 which makes it easier to force delete accounts....

Tuesday, January 29 2013
336 [Minor enhancement] make long thread arcs more visually distinct was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 10:48 PM

    I've added five pixels. I don't think it should be more than that.

  • benny
    • State changed from new to accepted
    by benny at 10:19 PM

    The colors of the arcs (and the thread arc angle) are actually configurable in the view class I implemented for this feature, but there is no GUI to change this...

333 Colored Flags was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 9:58 PM

    @Eric: Good idea with the colored squares. I've also considered the use of Unicode emoticons (I already do it for signed/encrypted messages), but I seem to reca...

  • benny
    benny commented at 9:28 PM

    @Eric: I've prepared for it since tags can already be drag-reordered. Personally, I would prefer an image-icon column such that the highest-priority icon is sho...

335 Trying to Delete Dummy Account--Red Messages was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 9:21 PM

    I believe fastmail.fm is relatively popular among my users and I have no problems with their IMAP server.

  • benny
    • State changed from new to accepted
    by benny at 8:03 PM

    First of all, thanks for trying out MailMate.

    Deleting accounts: The top priority in MailMate is to never lose messages/data. Ironically, this is why you cannot...

102 Filtering was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 9:18 PM

    @Eric: The latter is not possible.

334 Canned Responses was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to accepted
    by benny at 8:17 PM

    No such feature yet (but I have some interesting ideas for how it could work). Your best option currently is probably something like TextExpander. A primitive w...

Saturday, January 26 2013
333 Colored Flags was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to accepted
    by benny at 9:24 PM

    It is possible to make custom key bindings to toggle colored flags. By default you can enter F followed by a number from 1 to 6 (and 0 to clear it).

    I plan to e...

332 MailMate aborts during first run was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 7:45 AM

    For me it's a good thing since it means the bug can be fixed if you are willing to help me track it down.

    If you are willing to help me then this is what I want...

Friday, January 25 2013
332 MailMate aborts during first run was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 10:59 PM

    22K messages is not a problem. The crash happens in the IMAP code fetching messages from the server. I am very interested if it's a reproducible problem. Is it?

    ...
232 Feature request: deletion behavior flexibility was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 11:20 AM

    Some corrections/additions:

    IV. B.: This only worked for IMAP mailboxes. Mailboxes based on “All Messages” do not show messages marked as deleted. I had forgott...

Thursday, January 24 2013
331 Feature Request: comment field and tick box for Mailbox filter was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to accepted
    by benny at 10:41 PM

    a) Hmm, might not be a bad idea. Implementation-wise the main problem is that there would be no easy way to save disabled criterions.

    b) I wouldn't do it for a ...

284 Crash while Sending Mail was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 8:44 PM

    @Christian: You can find crash reports using “/Applications/Utilities/Console.app”.

    MailMate also asks you if you want to send crash reports automatically to me...

Tuesday, January 22 2013
221 IMAP IDLE for configurable set of mailboxes was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 7:04 PM

    @lollipop: Quit MailMate and edit this file: ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Sources.plist. For each account you can add something like:

    maxNumberOfConn...
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232 Feature request: deletion behavior flexibility was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to accepted
    by benny at 8:46 AM

    Not sure why I never replied to the original ticket, but this is the current state of affairs:

    I. Now possible by holding down ⌥ when deleting a message.
    II. A ...

Sunday, January 20 2013
330 Address trailer issues was updated
  • benny
    • State changed from new to bluesky
    by benny at 3:48 PM

    Sorry, no. And this is unlikely to change soon.

Saturday, January 19 2013
330 Address trailer issues was created
  • David Crippen
    David Crippen created the ticket at 9:58 PM

    Is there a selective way to make the text of the signature smaller than the usual text (to save space)?

325 Shifting mail to desktop was updated
  • David Crippen
    David Crippen commented at 7:58 PM

    Many thanks for your excellent and comprehensive advice

  • benny
    benny commented at 7:56 PM

    I'm not sure what's possible in Mail Steward. Maybe you could start over and re-import the messages to the original database. As I understood it, the only limit...

  • David Crippen
    David Crippen commented at 7:51 PM

    Oooops. A little detail I forgot. Now I have it archived but in a different database. Would be nice if I could combine it with the original database but I have ...

  • benny
    benny commented at 7:43 PM

    And did you also point MailSteward to the folder with exported emails (the bottom part of the Accounts preferences pane)? (You did not attach an image of that w...

  • David Crippen
    David Crippen commented at 7:37 PM

    Does not work. Mail Steward creates a database different than a plain folder. Will not accept a plain folder on the desktop. Will only save mail to the old data...

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  • David Crippen
    David Crippen commented at 3:09 AM

    Many thanks Benny. I'll give it a shot.

Friday, January 18 2013
329 No more negative sign was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 11:36 PM

    I think you just mean the minus shown as part of the “search bar” enabled by clicking “Search” in the toolbar (or using the shortcut). It is only shown when the...

  • David Crippen
    David Crippen created the ticket at 11:11 PM

    There is no more (negative sign) that used to be on the right upper field. This used to solve a lot of minor issues.

326 Strange "undo delete" issue was updated
  • David Crippen
    David Crippen commented at 11:08 PM

    will try.

  • benny
    benny commented at 9:46 PM

    This really is strange. Try this: Open a new window using ⌥⌘N and see if it shows the same behavior.

    Have you tried restarting MailMate?

    Here is a low level way...

  • David Crippen
    David Crippen commented at 9:39 PM
    1. Test message formulated
    2. Arrives in inbox- deleted
    3. Undelete clicked
    4. Nothing in inbox
    5. Nothing in "deleted mail"
325 Shifting mail to desktop was updated
  • benny
    benny commented at 10:03 PM

    The solution above worked for me with Mail Steward.

  • benny
    benny commented at 9:49 PM

    I would create a folder on the desktop, e.g., named like this:

    /Users/<login name>/Desktop/ExportedFromMailMate/
    

    Then I would tell Mail Steward of this locati...

  • David Crippen
    David Crippen commented at 9:42 PM

    Eudora was the gold standard. Moved mail to desktop automatically and removed it from the server. But that's kicking a dead horse.

    So right now, where do I drag...

  • benny
    • State changed from new to accepted
    by benny at 9:34 PM

    I'm a bit surprised if Mail Steward cannot import standard emails (as created when dragged out of MailMate). Are you sure about this? The mbox format is almost ...