Mailplane

Mailplane in French SVM Mac: Indispensable!

Thursday, May 22, 2008

SVM Mac is the biggest and most important French Mac magazine, and Mailplane has been tested on page 92 in the current June issue (#206).

Best of all, Mailplane gets five mice - the max! According to the editors, Mailplane is "Indispensable" for Gmail Mac users. Plus: The magazine comes with a CD which contains Mailplane.

Without Michel Tribet's excellent French application translation, Mailplane wouldn't have appeared in SVN Mac... thanks Michel!

Faster Gmail loading

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Thanks to Google, Gmail loads much faster! Account switching, new message windows, and initial startup are much zippier!

Check out this article for more information.

Mailplane 2.0 beta 3 released

Gmail is pushing out a new Gmail 2 version, this may lead to these problems - which are fixed in beta 3:

• external links and downloads do not work
• The Mail menu doesn't work correctly
• compose new in separate window doesn't work

Mailplane 2.0 beta 2 released

Thursday, May 15, 2008

New: "Enable Google Talk Window" preference

Nearly all accounts are now Gmail 2, and you get Gtalk right in your inbox sidebar. As the Google Talk window was created for Gmail 1 when the sidebar didn't have Google Talk support, there is now a preference to enable/disable Google Talk support.

Recommendation:
If you use Gmail 2, disable the setting.
If you prefer Gmail 1, enable it.



Updated: Safari extensions check

Some users don't experience the crashes, even with Safari Ad block and SafariBlock installed. There is a new button on the alert, to stop all warnings about it.

Improved: Apply/Remove label for Star

Mailplane shows a new "Star" label in the "Apply/Remove" label panel.


Other Improvements and bugfixes:

• Bugfix: Some Google Apps accounts using http experienced authentication problems
• Bugfix: Gmail keyboard shortcut stopped working after Cmd-L
• Bugfix: When clicking the reply box, characters were interpreted instead of entered.
• Bugfix: Select-All now works in a "Show Original" window
• Bugfix: "Show Original" window title

Mailplane 2.0 beta

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

I am very excited about the latest Mailplane release: 2.0 Beta! (press release).
Important: Mailplane 2.0 will be a FREE upgrade for all registered users!
For the full list of new features and improvements please check out this page.

“Close instead of Hide” preference

If you like to reduce cpu usage to a minimum while you have Mailplane in background, you can close the main window instead of just hiding it.
This may preserve some battery power, but it takes longer to reopen the window.

Improved: Apply/Remove label for Inbox

When not using the inbox, Mailplane shows a new "Inbox" label when using Cmd-L. This special label allows you to either do a Move to inbox or to archive.

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Switch to account keyboard shortcut

Press Cmd-Control-A (or use Mailplane->Switch to Account...) to open the account completion panel. It works like the textsnippets, apply/remove label, and navigate to label panels:
Use your keyboard to navigate the list and ENTER to switch to the selected account.

Safari extensions check

Some users experienced frequent crashes, which were caused by the SafariBlock or Safari Ad Block InputManagers that automatically load into Mailplane. As Mailplane includes a newer WebKit than Safari, it leads to crashes. Unfortunately, there is no way Mailplane can stop these extensions from loading.

You have two options to solve the problem:

• Remove the extension(s)
• or enable "Use System" WebKit in Advanced preferences to use the same WebKit as Safari. You'll need Safari 3.1.1 and there will have to live with some problems that have been fixed in Mailplane's WebKit: Gmail 2/Plain text focus problem; Gmail 1/Rich text disabled; Gmail 1/focus problems

OmniFocus “Clipping” Plugin

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

With the free OmniFocus plugin, you can create new tasks containing a direct link to your conversation from Mailplane. Download the plugin here.

Mailplane 1.77 released

Improved auto update
All updates are now secured by DSA signatures, this means that Mailplane will only install correctly signed updates.
This security feature now enables automatic updates: You can turn on the option in the "Software Update" panel.


Improved registration panels
You can now directly open the "resend license" web page when you see one of the registration panels.