Mailplane

“Gmail Redesigned” stylesheet for Mailplane

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Mike Krieger has ported the famous and elegant "Gmail Redesigned" stylesheet to Mailplane! Designed by GlobexDesigns, the stylesheet is part of the "Better Gmail" Firefox extension. It worked in Firefox only and thanks to Mike now in Mailplane, too.

Please visit the mailplaneapp Google group to get it. The CSS file is located in the "Files" section and is named "gmail-redesigned-webkit (n).css" (n is the version number).

Watch the installation screencast to get started:

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Important: As the stylesheet is maintained by Mike, please post your suggestions, problems, and feedback to the mailplaneapp Google group.

Summer Vacation

Friday, July 04, 2008

Wow - it has been a great year so far! Now some vacation, family, and "offline" time is really needed. I'll be on vacation for two weeks and will be back on July, 21.
Destination: Corsica (where the Mailplane project started...)

If you experience any Mailplane problems, please go to the FAQ page, check for known problems, or search the Google group. The are also known Gmail issues, they are listed on this page.
Enjoy your summer, too!

Mailplane Bright Hub Review

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Mailplane just got reviewed on Bright Hub! It's a great and very thorough review and describes what Mailplane is and what it isn't.



Here is what Bill writes about Security and Privacy:
"There are settings in each Gmail account's preference panel to control access to each individual Gmail account, by saving the Gmail account password to the Mac keychain and allowing automatic login as needed. [See Image 3] Of course, this is best used on a Mac that has password-protected user accounts. 

Mailplane also provides a setting in each Gmail account that enables https support. While this can affect the application's overall performance, turning on https is a good idea for anyone who's using Mailplane on a local area network."

Check out the full article, it is a great read!

Mailplane 2.0 beta 5 released

New and Improved:

• French translation by Michel Tribet
• German translation by Patrick Scheips
• Norwegian (Bokmål) translation by Vidar Ramdal
• Nested groups are now supported when Inserting email addresses from the Mac OS X address book (Cmd-Opt-A)
• Account drawer toolbar item added to default toolbar

Bugfixes:

• iPhoto plugin didn't work anymore, bug was introduced by build 758
• Unread message counter problem when using a google.com account. (Counter didn't go to zero).

How to replace the Gmail logo

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Many users would like to see a custom image in Mailplane instead of the Gmail "beta" logo.
If you use Google Apps for your domain, Google provides this feature. The logo can be uploaded and set in your "Manage domain->Domain Settings->Appearance":

If you use a "normal" Gmail account (@gmail.com), a custom stylesheet can do the trick as Mailplane supports such a stylesheet. It can be set in your Tweak UI preferences.
Here is an example CSS file:

.zYsCRb {background:transparent url(http://mailplaneapp.com/downloads/logo-custom.gif) !important; }

Upload a correctly sized image (143 x 59 pixels) to any webserver and replace the URL in the example with the URL to your logo. Important: The picture will be shown in all account you use.