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OSX: Get your hands on Mail 3.0 now « WaitState — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:32:36 +0000

[...] Hawk Wings Â» Blog Archive Â» Get your hands on Mail 3.0 now: You donâ€™t have to wait until next year to get your hands on the new features in Mail 3.0. The third-party apps and plugins that may have inspired the new features are available now. [...]

By: Zar

Zar — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:24:31 +0000

Jobs wants this OS and applications to be run in enterprise situations? Then give us a mail application capable of requesting a return receipt – how difficult can this be?

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:07:47 +0000

The stationary isn’t immediately for me, but let’s keep in mind that not all stationary needs to be over the top. It can be a matter of very subtle touches, like font choices and default text for common uses – a business email template as opposed to a personal email template, for example. That’s how I expect I’ll use it anyway – I represent several clients in communications sometimes, and being able to gently customize those emails to match the brand of my client is a real plus to me.

By: Tony Meyer

Tony Meyer — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:54:21 +0000

I have to say I’m on the “revolts” side regarding the “stationary”. It reminds me most of Incredimail and getting mail from those users is always painful.
While I certainly prefer plain-text email, tasteful HTML email (i.e. for bold/italic text, links and so on) is something I can live with.
How is it that Apple, famed for their design, can’t create modern, tasteful, templates? (It’s not like a template is a new idea!)

By: john r

john r — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:38:09 +0000

I just hope Apple improves the spell checker so it can automatically correct typos, etc.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:22:10 +0000

I hope that there are some other improvements in Mail that are not sexy enough to make it into a keynote but will represent a real improvement for users. Fingers crossed!

By: Macattack

Macattack — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:55:05 +0000

I didn’t hear anything about better compatibility with Exchange servers. Is Apple finally going to give us the ability to disable public folder syncing? Currently, we have to set this within our Active Directory accounts.

By: mc

mc — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:38:53 +0000

Whoops. The link is:

http://hallon.sourceforge.net/

By: mc

mc — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:13:59 +0000

The “ToDo” capacity of Mail seems less like something attached to Mail (and thus MailTags) but a universal feature built as a service into the whole system. That’s pretty slick.

But there’s a piece of software that already does this: Hallon. It allows systemwide ToDos, like are promised now, though sadly and frustratingly it doesn’t incorporate with iCal. You can draft a mail to yourself, (put “Note:” into the subject line for better smartfolder filtering…), then easily attach it with a keystroke to your universal ToDo list, include a due date, write some additional notes, etc.

The icon lives in your menu, and you can attach Finder items, Safari links, iPhoto, Addresses (the name and what you need to call about, for example), and much more. It’s a powerful piece of software, hurt by its lousy calendar input format, and a few odd behaviors with keystrokes. I use it all the time, though. Universal ToDo lists, not just in Mail.

Link to Hallon is:

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:54:32 +0000

P.S. Just kidding…