Thomas at n00.be has discovered a fix for the persistent unread messages bug that strikes some Mail.app users with Sen:te’s GPGMail installed.

You need to tweak GPGMail’s settings for automatic authentication and decryption. The correct settings are outlined in an archived email on the GPGMail User mailing list.

Incidentally, you can find another fix for the “unread message count” bug (unrelated to GPGMail, but related to your Mailbox Behaviour settings) in this thread on the Apple Discussion Board.GPGMail, sen:te, Sente, unread messages, mail.app, apple mail, bugs

AOL has launched a beta test of its Connect for Mac app.

If you have an AOL screen name, you can log in, read the beta announcement and (I am guessing) download the beta from AOL’s beta web site.

Connect for Mac allows AOL members to initiate an online connection to the Internet without launching the full AOL client.

It is already easy to use Mail.app with AOL . Presumably, this makes it even easier.AOL, mail.app, apple mail, beta, connector

The opportunity has come up to snatch three days away at the beach. Oh, yeah!

See you again on Sunday night.personal, les enfants charmants, I’m outta here

Not many people know this (I didn’t) but .Mac has an official blog .

The most recent entry, “Using .Mac mail as your everywhere notebook” , points out that you can easily use an IMAP account like .Mac to store information online that is then accessible from any computer anywhere.

A Joyent user, Matt, has discovered the same thing. In a long and entertaining post on Joyent’s forums, he describes an epiphany which led him to dump his information manager and use an IMAP account instead:

So now that I’m using a folder on my IMAP server to store things like directions to that restaurant or my car insurance account number, I can shed one extraneous app, and everything is as searchable and sortable as it should be. Assuming I’ve mailed it to myself, I can find whatever document I need from home, from the office, and from someone else’s computer.

He still has to use Mail.app to search the content of his messages, but for the most part he is much happier in a more Web 2.0 world.dotmac, .mac, IMAP, email, information manager, joyent, web 2.0

The world of email clients for Mac is seeing some significant change.

Not long ago Entourage got more Mail-like, gaining iSync and Spotlight support. Now Thunderbird gets more Entourage-like, gaining an extension that provides integrated calendaring and to dos.

Lightning adds a calendar to the Thunderbird interface, not unlike Boris Anthony’s mock-up for a possible Mail.app plugin.

The extension is already well-featured, offering to dos, scheduling, daily, weekly and monthly views, an auto-generated “Agenda” of upcoming events and more.

You read more about Lightning and see a screenshot in Eric Bangeman’s review on ars technica.thunderbird, lightning, calendar, to dos, extensions, Entourage

I ran across two things for Gmail users today.

Adam Pash at Lifehacker has posted a tutorial of tips and tricks for getting the most out of Gmail. It even has video clips!

Among other things, he talks about some scripts for the Firefox extension Greasemonkey which add very useful bells and whistles to Gmail’s web interface.

Another Greasemonkey script promises to bring basic encryption to Gmail. It first encrypts the email into AES and then uses the RSA algorithm to encrypt the message again.gmail, tips, tricks, greasemonkey, scripts, firefox, encryption, email

Suddenly there’s a glut of news. Here are today’s other notable happenings and links in compressed form:

• Paul Stamatiou has switched from Thunderbird to Mail.app. Thunderbird is just too slow on an Intel Mac. He provides the benchmarks and finds that he is warming to Mail.app’s “sleek design”.
• Leander Kahney discovers the latest build of Quicksilver. “It’s kind of like Spotlight on steroids, but the steroids have begun to affect the brain,” he says .
• Brent Simmons, the developer of NetNewsWire, has added Hawk Wings to the app’s list of pre-selected Macinstosh feeds (which was nice of him).
• Dizplay ze grand attachments? Absolument, Non! Mail Attachment Iconizer gets a French localisation .
• Joe Kissell will be joining TidBITS as Senior Editor . Hawk Wings follows Joe’s career with interest, not least because he is the author of the only book dedicated solely to Apple Mail.

mail.app, apple mail, plugins, netnewswire, thunderbird, quicksilver, tidbits, french