The Plug-in Graveyard
While compiling the Hawk Wings Plug-ins and Add-ons List, I came across three two one well-known plug-ins that don’t work in Tiger (or aren’t needed so much), won’t be updated and look likely to fade away. So, a quick eulogy to old friends.
MailEnhancer is very much alive. MailEnhancer gave us signature matching for specific accounts, made the dock icon count all unread messages, not just those in the inbox, and launched the Activity Viewer on a manual mail check. It was the first ever plug-in I installed. (Sebster writes in the comments to this entry that reports of MailEnhancer’s death (by me) are greatly exaggerated. It works fine, although the developer’s website is down. Excellent! Get it from versiontracker.)
MailTemplate is back. 
MailTemplates offered users the ability to use pre-made messages or templates to send similar messages to different people. In its most recent version it also included some extras for the contextual menu which were very useful. It doesn’t work correctly in Mail 2.0 and the developer has announced that its development is discontinued. That’s sad, but leaves a hole in the market for an enterprising coder.
Mail Priority allowed you to set the priority level of messages, to request “mail received” receipts from the people you emailed and colouring of messages via the contextual menu. It doesn’t work with Tiger and the developer hasn’t said that he has any plans to update it.
There must be more. Old friends, gone but not (quite) forgotten.
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Tags: graveyard, mail.app, mailenhancer, MailPriority, MailTemplates, message priority, notification, plugin, return receipts, templates
September 8th, 2005 at 4:17 pm
At least MailEnhancer works in Tiger without problems – I’m using it to get the total mail count (with all IMAP subfolders) shown in the Dock. But the webpage seems to be down…
September 8th, 2005 at 4:24 pm
Hey, Sebster, that’s great news!
It was like a first girlfriend to me. Well, almost.
And you can download it, I discover, from VersionTracker.
September 25th, 2005 at 1:19 am
[...] Developers have tried to replace these missing features — iSay and MailVoiceClip for LipService, MailPriority for read receipts (doesn’t work in Tiger), MailPictures for X-images-URL and pictures of senders not in your Address Book — but the decision to remove them in the first place is puzzling. [...]
September 25th, 2005 at 11:36 pm
[...] You can also use it quickly to generate “proforma” replies to emails that you are often sent, almost like one could when MailTemplates worked. Typing “rreply” at the start of a reply, inserts this: [...]
September 30th, 2005 at 11:06 pm
[...] Here’s a sad story, one worth telling, before consigning another app to the Plug-in Graveyard. [...]
October 13th, 2005 at 3:43 pm
[...] Having prematurely buried MailEnhancer in the Plug-in Graveyard, I owe it a proper plug. [...]