Top ten things every Mail.app user should have
Top Tens must be a seasonal thing. Everyone’s doing it.
There’s a list of ten fastest growing branded web sites with Apple on top. There’s even a list of ten signs that you are a GTD disciple.
Here’s my list - the top 10 plug-ins, add-ons, scripts, and helpful apps that every Apple Mail user should have. The best stuff is at the top:
- MailTags. (That was easy). Just get it.
- Mail Act-on. Sorting emails on the fly with user-defined rules.
- MailAppetizer. Beautiful and useful “in your face”
notification . - Mail Scripts. Excellent
AppleScripts forMail.app . I haven’t blogged them in detail. Andreas Amann’s own web site is the best introduction. - Mail Stamps. Those lozenge-shaped buttons in Mail 2.0! What were they thinking? Banish them forever.
- MailUnreadStatusBar. Discreet and useful notification.
- JunkMatcher or SpamSieve. It’s a draw for me which of these offers the better additional protection from spam.
- Take Control of Apple Mail in Tiger. The only book dedicated to help you get the most out of Mail 2.0. Packed full of tips and other goodness.
- QuickSilver. Generally excellent and the most valuable third-party app I use. It sneaks in here because you can also email files directly from its interface and do lots of other neat things. Free. Astonishingly.
- Spell Catcher X. Spell checker, snippet manager, on the fly formatter. Useful in Mail.app and elsewhere.
There are lots more that didn’t make it due simply to the way I use Mail. But you can find them all in the Hawk Wings Plug-in and Add-on List.
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December 23rd, 2005 at 12:15 pm
What about this: http://lokisw.com/index.php?item=MailAttachmentsIconizer ? It forces Mail.app to show attachments as icons inside the mail w/o opening.
December 23rd, 2005 at 4:49 pm
Yes, it’s a good one. And on the bigger Hawk Wings list of course.
But because I never receive large attachments, I don’t ever use it.
I suppose you could mount an argument - if you didn’t need auto-replies - that you should swap out MacResponder and replace it with Mail Attachments Iconizer.
December 26th, 2005 at 9:53 am
check out http://www.tikouka.net/mailapp
December 26th, 2005 at 9:57 am
Yes, I’ve heard of it ;-)
That’s a good list, but it’s not comprehensive.
December 27th, 2005 at 6:58 pm
…This post which was in Hebrew got hopelessly mangled in the move to TextDrive, so I’ve removed it. Sorry about that…
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December 30th, 2005 at 7:46 am
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January 4th, 2006 at 10:20 am
This is a good list. I have just installed a few of them, and am looking at your comprehensive list. This might persuade me to leave thunderbird on my ibook.
January 4th, 2006 at 10:32 am
Thanks, Erik. Do it! You won’t regret it.
Think of the extra inetgration with other iApps, the beauty of the interface, the excellence of the plugins and applescripts that extend Mail’s functionality even further….
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February 26th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
I would love to get into the whole mail app thing, im new to macs and just got my first macbook pro, its just too easy to have a google notifier, if only i could have these for both google and hotmail running from mail app without have to have the programme open :| yeah its a lot to ask, or even have a mail app notifier with both mailboxes, but still i dont like having open applications im not using.
Craig
June 5th, 2007 at 12:43 am
Tim,
Great list. At this point, though, I’d say that SpamSieve has the lead over Junk Matcher. The latter is terrific but the spam definitions and the application haven’t been updated in several years, as the author is in graduate school. He has promised in a blog post to update Junk Matcher when he gets a chance, but that could be a while!
Ron
November 24th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Hello,
I am trying to hire a freelancer / developer to develop an addin for Apple’s mail application. The application has not been released yet, however is not working for Outlook and some of the Webmail clients. Location is not an issue, and the specs are pretty much clear, as it is a port of the existing app to Mac.
Any idea, where I can hire someone like that.
Thanks.
November 29th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
@Rohit. Not really. Sorry!
June 21st, 2008 at 10:02 pm
What I’d really like are “Next/Previous” buttons within emails.
Is anyone aware of anything that adds that functionality?
Thanks.