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!

Safari extensions check

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

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

Vacation

Sunday, July 22, 2007

I had a great and intense time since I released Mailplane in March. I enjoyed working for the fast growing Mailplane community - you are just terrific!

But now, me and my family need some "offline" time. We have rented an RV and will travel around beautiful Sweden. I'll be back "online" August 14th.
Enjoy your summer, too!
Ruben

Getting started screencast

Get most out of Mailplane and watch the getting started screencast. It shows you how to drag and drop files to create attachments, send screenshots, send any document as PDF, use multiple accounts, and more

Mailplane, WebKit, and Safari 3 beta

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Last week, Apple released Safari 3 beta. This is great news for Mac and now even Windows users.

However, for a WebKit based application like Mailplane there are way too many options. Some users still use the old WebKit provided by Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Some have installed and configured WebKit nightly to be used in Mailplane. And now there is the new Safari 3 beta WebKit that causes Mailplane trouble. This leads to unnecessary confusion.

I like to provide a running solution out of the box, and I have decided to bundle a tested and preconfigured WebKit nightly with Mailplane. It will work despite your system configuration, or if you have installed Safari 3 beta. "Rich text editing" will be enabled by default and the option to configure the WebKit path will be gone.

Meanwhile, there is a workaround if you would like to use Safari 3 and Mailplane on the same system:
1. Download WebKit nightly from here.
2. Enable rich text editing and configure the WebKit path in Advanced preferences