Leopard and Mail plug-ins [UPDATED]
As I go further into Leopard the more convinced I become that Apple have spent some serious time on making the transition as easy as possible even for people like myself who like to use plug-in's that use private API's.
This time around it's the third-party extensions I use in Mail - some of which I will really miss until they get updated. The reason I'm convinced Apple have gone to some length to make the transition to Leopard as easy as possible is my previous experience with iSync phone plug-ins and now Mail-plug-in/bundles:
The downside is that there is a fair chance that nearly all the Mail-plug-ins don't work. For me the they are currently:
- AttachmentScannerPlugin (no public info on Leopard updates see update below)
- MailActOn (no public info on Leopard updates see update below)
- MailFollowup (no public info on Leopard updates see update below)
- MailTags (hopefully a public Beta next week...)
- SignatureProfiler (no public info on Leopard updates see update below)
- GrowlMail
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- (Growl seems to be compatible but the bundle that provides GrowlMail isn't - this forum thread seems to be the one to check)
I would normally have checked in with the excellent Hawkwings website about the plug-ins, but it appears to have gone into hiatus since July...
So, I've sent emails off to each of the developer and will update this post when and if the status of the various plug-in's changes. Feel bookmark the post and check back later or alternatively grab the RSS feed and have your news reader watch it for you!
[UPDATED]
Don't you just love the Mac developer community here's some news about those Mail plug-ins we all love....
- AttachmentScannerPlugin - James got back to me and will be looking at it as soon as he gets his copy of Leopard and for anyone that can't wait he's fixed the link to the source code. Expect more news next week.
- MailActOn & MailTags will have a formal announcement in the next 24 or so hours, and for any that really needs more detail or to get MAO running straight away I suggest reading Scotts reply in the forums to my question.
- MailFollowup Greg got back to me and will be looking at it as soon as he gets his copy of Leopard, as he uses them everyday we can expect them to updated promptly!
- SignatureProfiler - Scott form from Little Known Software was surprised by the final retail version not working with SigPro as previous development versions had, even so he hopes to have a fix.
- GrowlMail - OK Growl is good to go and they now have formal thread for compatibility with Leopard, but GrowlMail is not compatible, in the mean time till it gets tweaked may I suggest checking this thread rather than the previously mention one which turned it something of a bitch slap session...
