Mailplane

Softpedia Editorial Review: Mailplane gets 4 out of 5 stars

Monday, March 29, 2010

The Softpedia editors just published an extensive Mailplane review. Mailplane got a VERY GOOD (4 out of 5 stars)!

Mailplane is a friendly piece of software that aims to enhance and optimize the way you write and manage e-mails. It lets you add new buttons in the Toolbar and play with the shortcuts, so that you can switch views, convert attachments or minimize pictures within a click. Mailplane provides you with a different approach for labeling more e-mails at a time and a good search method.

Link to the Softpedia review.

Mailplane 2.1.6 released

Friday, March 26, 2010

NEW: Support for iWork/Send via Mail

Mailplane now supports the Share > Send via Mail menu items. Depending which app you use (Numbers, Pages, Keynote), you can send your document as a Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, or as native format. As a result, Mailplane will compose a new message and attach the document to it.

NEW: Load "Rapportive" Gmail plugin

Load "Rapportive" Gmail plugin to replace ads with contact information. You can enable the plugin per account. Open Preferences > Accounts > Advanced to change the setting.

Updated Translations

• Chinese (Traditional & Simplified) by Jim Chiu
• French by Michel Tribet
• German by Patrick Scheips
• Norwegian by Vidar Ramdal
• Romanian by Ovi Pascui
• Russian by Igor Terekhov

Bug fixes

• FIX: Cmd-T only worked on first result page.
• FIX: Some keyboard shortcuts/menu items/toolbar items stopped working because of Gmail changes
• FIX: Rare authentication/Load problem at startup
• FIX: iPhoto Gallery "Tell a friend" now inserts the link/text into the message body.
• FIX: External URLs clicked in a "separate" window opened inside Mailplane instead of the preferred browser.
• FIX: "Inserting Image" lab feature didn't work in separate windows.
• FIX: Italian only: Chat in main window caused unexpected scrolling.

Detecting suspicious Gmail account activity

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Google added a new Gmail account security feature. It'll alert you if your Gmail account gets accessed from another country:

To determine when to display this message, our automated system matches the relevant IP address, logged per the Gmail privacy policy, to a broad geographical location. While we don't have the capability to determine the specific location from which an account is accessed, a login appearing to come from one country and occurring a few hours after a login from another country may trigger an alert. By clicking on the "Details" link next to the message, you'll see the last account activity window that you're used to, along with the most recent access points.

Official Gmail blog post.

Goodbye Mail.app – Hello Mailplane

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Martin Sauer posted a very positive Mailplane review on the well known German apfelquak.de blog. The title: "Goodbye Mail.app – Hello Mailplane":

Kurzum: nach wenigen Tagen frage ich mich, wie ich ohne das Tool auskommen konnte. Mal davon ab, dass ich an Gmail mehr und mehr Gefallen finde, macht Mailplane die Sache erst richtig rund. Die knapp 19 EUR, die diese Software kostet, sind meines Erachtens durchaus angebracht.

Link to the blog post.

Gmail Blog: Better controls for buzz in your inbox

Monday, March 15, 2010

For many users, the Buzz inbox notifications got too noisy. According to this article on the official Gmail blog, Google has worked on two improvements:

1) Settings to control what gets sent to your inbox

From the Buzz tab of Gmail Settings, you’ll be able to choose whether the following buzz items get sent to your inbox:

• Comments on your posts
• Comments on posts after you comment on them
• Comments on posts after you are @replied on them

2) Explanations for why posts get sent to your inbox and an easy-to-find “Mute” link

You'll see a new message at the top of each post in your inbox that explains why it’s there: someone commented on your post, you were @replied, etc. We’ve also added an easy-to-find “mute” link that will stop subsequent comments from bringing the conversation back to your inbox.

Borsato: Mailplane review in Dutch

Saturday, March 13, 2010

"Borsato" just published a nice Mailplane review in Dutch:

Als je graag met Gmail werkt en op zoek bent naar een volwaardige desktop mail applicatie dan is Mailplane zeker de moeite waard om het eens uit te proberen!

Check out the full review.

New Gmail lab feature: Refresh POP accounts

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

If you have configured one or more POP3 accounts in Gmail, then you'll love this new lab feature:

Turn on "Refresh POP accounts" from the Labs tab under Settings, and the refresh link at the top of your inbox will not only update your inbox with your new Gmail messages, it will also fetch messages from any other accounts which you have set up.

Read the full story on the official Gmail blog.

Mailplane 2.1.5 released

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Release notes:

• NEW: Support for the new and fast Gmail "separate" windows (more information).
• FIX: PDF menu item wasn't created on Mailplane installation
• FIX: Growl notifications didn't open in the main window when the main window was hidden.
• FIX: Adobe Flash 10.1 beta 3 prevented attachments uploads.
• FIX: Memory leak when using drag and drop
• FIX: Inbox or separate window could become grey after a drag and drop operation
• FIX: Initial URL for Gmail didn't always have the correct scheme
• FIX: Separate window didn't close after archive, delete, or report spam.
• CHANGE: Removed custom WebKit nightly frameworks as the Google has fixed the "duplicating chat box" problem.
• FIX: open location in AppleScript didn't work
• FIX: Typo in help menu

Fast “separate” Gmail windows

Great news for Mailplane users: "Separate" Gmail windows got much faster! Try the File > New Separate menu item or shift-click a conversation in the Gmail overview list to see the difference.

Here's more info from the official Gmail blog:

One of the lesser-known features of Gmail is its ability to help with multitasking. Frequently, I find that I need to find an old message while I'm composing an email. When this happens, I click on the "new window" icon to pop my compose area into its own window:

There's only one problem — it's been slow! Today, we're rolling out a change that will fix this (reload your account to make sure you get this change). Now, popping out a window is much, much faster. No more "Loading..." progress bar.

There are a number of places you can pop up new windows in Gmail.

• In chat, there's the little upward arrow in the title bar:
  
• When writing a message, hold the "Shift" key while you click on the Compose Mail, Reply, Reply All or Forward links and you'll get a new window for your new message. (Holding the "Shift" key while typing the keyboard shortcut — in other words typing "C" "R" or "F" — has the same effect.)
• When you're reading your mail, hold the "Shift" key while you click on a message to open the conversation in a new window. (Same holds true for the "Shift" key and the "o" or "Enter" shortcuts.)
• If you're reading an email and want to save it for later, you can click the "New window" link in the upper-right hand corner of the conversation view:
  

Gmail Labs graduation and retirement

Until now, the list of Gmail lab features was growing and growing. A few days ago, Google has shortened the list by graduating and retiring some lab features.

Graduating:

These features are now part of the standard Gmail user interface:

• Search Autocomplete
• Go To Label
• Forgotten Attachment Detector
• YouTube Previews
• Custom Label Colors
• Vacation Dates

Retiring:

Some lab features have completely been removed:

• Muzzle
• Fixed Width Font
• Email Addict
• Location in Signature
• Random Signature

Read Gmail blog post here.