MailTunes is a free-standing app that provides you with a dynamically changing signature for your emails. By default it contains info about the track currently playing in iTunes, but it can be configured to report uptime or anything else you know how to ring out of its shell script.

This sounds like a great idea, but I can’t get it to work. It reports all sorts of alarming messages in the Console like this,

and this,

Then Mail hangs. As an added bonus it has erased all my existing signatures.

Perhaps it’s my fault. It often is. Perhaps it’s not compatible with Tiger (although there’s no warning about that on the developer’s website).

UPDATE: Mystery solved. The developer Tomas replied to my email with lightning speed (Thanks). He writes,

MailTunes does not work in Tiger yet, unfortunately. This is a bug in Apple Mail that prevents scripts from setting the contents of signatures. I have reported it, and the best I can do at this time is to hope this bug is one of the ones fixed in the upcoming OS X 10.4.3. When it’s fixed, the current version of MailTunes should begin working again. I do have a newer version in the works, but I didn’t see any point in releasing it until this problem is resolved.

So, a plug-in to look forward to. Or to enjoy if you are still on Panther or Jaguar.
Apple Mail, mail.app, signatures, iTunes, Tiger, disaster, plugins

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