A new improved version of MailTags is out!
For me, the stand-out new feature in MailTags 1.2.2 is mouseless tagging.
A new shortcut “Tag this message” (Command-Control-T) switches focus to the MailTags pane and allows you to tab through its fields, making tagging more efficient and speedy than ever before.
But there’s more. A new Toolbar icon “Show Tags” (available from the Customize Toolbar option) opens and closes the MailTags pane and a new MailTags column displays a small flag next to each message with MailTags information. The tag in the message area looks more handsome, having received a Web 2.0 makeover.
An option to show or hide the message area’s MailTag icon has been added to the Preferences pane.
Also very welcome is a new feature which allows you to set the contents of a MailTags Note as the subject line of an email. Simply check the box under the Note and the email gets a new clearer, more useful, more whatever-you-like subject line in italics:
Easy editing of subject lines in Mail.app has arrived. (These “subject lines” won’t work as subjects in Mail.app searches, but you will still find them as Notes).
The plugin is now wrapped in a new Firestorm installer and will place the Spotlight plugin in your user directory instead of the System Library folder.
A few small niggles have been fixed—clearing all tags now always clears all tags and several links in the localisations have been ironed out. Speaking of which, MailTags now also talks Swedish.
MailTags 1.2.2 will continue to be available although Scott’s attention is now turning to the development of MailTags 2.0, which offers full IMAP support by encoding MailTags info in an X-Header and a flood of other advanced project management goodies.
You can read more about the MailTags 2.0 beta and sign up to test it 
on Scott’s new web site.
MailTags already puts more productivity muscle into Mail.app than anything else. It’s the must-have plugin for Mail.app users who are serious about email. It’s the duck’s guts, the cat’s whiskers, the undisputed king of Mail.app plugins. And it’s going to get even better.
MailTags 2.0 will not be donation-ware. It will be shareware. But users who make the suggested donation of USD 20 for MailTags 1.2.2 will automatically be upgraded to MailTags 2.0 when it appears.
You can get MailTags 1.2.2 from Scott’s revamped web site , where you will also find a new MailTags support forum .
how long did the installation/upgrade to the 1.2.2 version take? i’m starting to wonder if i have an error going on. been much longer than i would expect… 3-4 minutes and counting but i get a warning if i try to quite that it may leave my system in an unstable state.
Should take about 5 seconds (tops)
Try force quitting and trying again.
(don’t worry about leaving system in unstable state)
I’m wondering about something. In the 2.0 beta, MailTags will start making use of the “X-Mailtags” on Imap Servers. Does this mean that mail headers will not be modified on Pop downloaded email?
@Jeff
once a pop message is downloaded, it can’t be modified. — the downloaded pop message will not have its headers modified, but if a message is tagged IMAP before POP downloaded – it should have the X-MailTags headers.
thanks scott. tried again and got the same hang so i quit it and opened mail… looks fine. new version installed and seems stable in the first few minutes of use so i’m guessing the install went okay and the installer just got hung up.
thanks for the response and excellent job with the new version!
I noticed the hanging installation as well. For a data point, I have these bundles installed: letterbox, MailActOn, SpamSieve, AttachmentScannerPlugin
Hi
We are still looking into these issues.
Try running the uninstaller first then run the installer
Scott
For clarity: I, too, just cancelled out the install and things worked fine when I loaded Mail.
Truly a great plugin that allows for greater granularity in sorting out messages. A great write up too.
Mine installed just fine.. But then, Mail started crashing alot. Everytime I went into Preferences for example.. So I had to uninstall :(
(I have Letterbox and SpamSieve)
@Hugo — can you go to our forums (forums.indev.ca) and post some details — Thanks
Scott,
Out of curiousity, why can’t a downloaded message have it headers modified? Aren’t they just plain text files?
@jeff
Its not that it can’t but it probably won’t do much for you — the tags are indexed in the emlx file in anycase — I could add this as a feature but the less playing about the actual message I have to do the better. If you want to discuss further, lets meet up at forums.indev.ca
@Scott Morrison – I just sent an email to an adress I found in the FAQ.. I’m afraid I dont have much more details though.
I look forward to enjoying these features when you support IMAP soon… as I imagine, much of the other people in my company, keep up the good work:)
You could always sign up for the public beta? :)
maybe I will then:)…
Excellent :)
No one mentioned that 1.2.2 appears to fix the problem that 1.2.1 had with hanging Mail, usually just after trying to send a message. I’ve been using this one a couple of days on two computers (one Intel, one G4), and no hangs so far…
The new features are GREAT. I especially like being able to change subject lines.
Tom Moore
Actually Tom, the stability fix was #1 on the change log —
Glad you like the new features :)
That’s probably an oversight on my part. I’ve never had stabilty problems with MailTags, so I just didn’t notice. Sorry about that.
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