Leopard and Mail 3.0 rumours
It’s the season to sacrifice all discretion and fact-checking reserve to the excitement of unrestrained rumour-mongering.
Jason O’Grady at Powerpage helps the process along with a list of “leaked” 10.5 features 
, which may or may nor be true, but are interesting to read either way.
He offers details of Spotlight 2.0, Dashboard 2.0, Safari 3.0, iChat 4.0, Automator 2.0, QuickTime 7.2, Mail 3.0, iCal 3.0, Address Book 5.0.
For Mail, his source suggests:
- New server protocols
- Widescreen version
- Different views, drop down
- Gmail-like thread system
- Ability to send proper HTML email
- Able to import pages documents as email
- iChat integration and new collaboration integration
- iCal calendar integration
Who knows?
Tags: Apple, Apple Mail, GMAIL, iCal, iChat, Leopard, mail.app, widescreenRelated posts
August 5th, 2006 at 9:23 am
O’Grady’s “source” posted the same information in this utterly implausible thread at ArsTechnica. Safe to say he’s as uninformed as the rest of us…
August 5th, 2006 at 9:37 am
Thanks for the link. Personally, my hunch is you are absolutely right.
But I wouldn’t feel like an Apple-related site unless I made one rumour post :)
August 5th, 2006 at 10:30 am
If these features were to be implemented, then I would hope that they are either comparable or don’t interfer with Mailtags and Act-On. They make my life so much simplier that I wouldn’t want to use any other form of mail client. Online or otherwise.
August 6th, 2006 at 5:46 am
I’m starting to wonder if the .Mac outages of the past week might be a sign of heavy construction at mac.com. Unfortunately, even if that’s true, there are no clues pointing to the reasons for the changes.
August 6th, 2006 at 10:09 am
Those rumours came with obviously fake screenshots (see Macrumors for deconstruction), so I doubt they’re worth while looking at.
David
August 6th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
It’s fun to observe the rumormongering, but until it comes out of Steve Jobs mouth (at what ever event he is speaking at) it’s all just useless speculation.
If the Leopard leaks were true Apple would be jumping on the leak hard and fast. They’ve done it time and time again in the past. If they’re not jumping now then it’s a good bet it’s not valid intel.
August 7th, 2006 at 3:56 am
Whatever Mail 3.0 has it better have the following:
- The powerful ability to Archive mail (perhaps like Mail Steward does, SQL database), do it robustly and seemlessly.
- the ability to Import (directly) emlx (os x mail that has been spotlighted)
- Way better Exchange functionality. For example, (at least in Exchange 5.5, if one has subfolders on the Exchange server within their inbox, OSZ X Mail does not know how to handle them /display them, a total mess
- Make it FAST, FAST FAST, in everything: opening, importing, downloading
A Core (2) Duo can transcode media (H.264) at blazzing speeds, BUT freakin’ OS X Mail app takes 10-30 minutes to Import, 10′000 p0lus mail messages: Apple re-write if youy have to the entire Mail App so it can, import / open, 100 K mail messages in under 20 seconds, with Core 2 Duo on the Leopard, my God we have to believe this isz possible
August 8th, 2006 at 4:52 am
Well, we all know how Steve Jobs organizes his to do’s and notes now… I was kinda afraid that mail would get these kinds of features. It reminds me of how Entourage works… it started off as a simple mail client and then it branched off with all kinds of features….
August 8th, 2006 at 5:42 am
Sorry about my many typos above, yes I can spell.
Looked briefly at the Leopard features: Looks great and one can tell Apple is keeping the lid on many of the tope features, very smart, since we all know MS would just steal it and put it into Vista, then lie and say: Look what we invented, sure you did.
So no cool Leopard features for you, MS. With this strategy it will be so obvious that MS is so behind in technology and vision when they release Vista and then Leopard comes out, and people will say: my God, we always knew it, but MS really has absolutely no capacity for originality and has had nothing original in its entire history, wow, pretty lame. Yes, exactly.
I am not too worried about the notes and to do’s, I actually think we’ll like this. I have actually been doing this, e-mailing myself a website or a link, etc., very helpful, but as Steve found out, impossible to organize within Mail app, so there is a separate area, Notes, To-Do’s. I have been using Mac Journal for tracking ideas and Notes, but its One more App and it is difficult to track / access your data centrally from a server or (.Mac). Leopard Mail could replace this for me I think.
That Mail Notes are LINKED to iCal is huge. So Mail is just one more font end app to input and access data from, and if you are like me, if there is 1 OS X application I use 100 %, totally rely on it’s Mail App, for business, for personal, etc. And since it is in Mail (.Mac) tied to iCal it means, this data can be accessed from any Mac anywhere, very key.
Yet, the iCal (CalDAV) stuff I think is even more important / key (especially in Corp. world for Macs and Mac users and I hope the see more of this.
Just caught this: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/ical.html
Look carefully on the right side: iCal Server, as far as I know, we have never heard of this until today, and its a blank page, so is this a premature error in posting, or Apple wishes for us to know, they finally have a Server (Corp) level iCal Calendaring solution, and its based on CalDAV and perhaps related also to: Hula Project, http://www.hula.org
Excellent stuff,
Like the Mac Pro’s. Look pricey, but hey the are all dual, dual core Xeon 5100, Woodcrests, not bad.
Now where is the 1500.00 Mac, base on “Conroe” that is NOT and iMac, is it coming, will we ever see it, we have to, a gaping hole is lineup. iMac = 1500.00 or so, Mac Pro base = 2500.00, need: something in the middle and Conroe should not just be limited to an All In One Mac, the iMac.