What’s new for Mailapp in 10.4.8
Mail.app’s version number changes from Version 2.1 (752/752.2) to Version 2.1.1 (752.3) after an update to 10.4.8 (Intel 
, PPC ) on an Intel Mac, but it’s not immediately clear what new features or improvements (if any) the update brings.
Apple continues its campaign to enforce the lozenge icons introduced with Tiger, overwriting any modifications with the default Tiger icons. Luckily, Mail Stamps soon removes them again.
Other plugins appear to be unaffected by the update.
Presumably, Mail users will benefit from added security to WebKit, but I can’t discover any changes in Mail.app itself. Can you?
Tags: 10.4.8, Apple, Apple Mail, icons, mail.app, update, WebKitRelated posts
September 30th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
I just updated to 10.4.8 and my Mail.app version number didnt change. Two things i can think of:
1. i moved Mail.app to a ‘Messaging’ subfolder and didnt get updated because of that?
2. the mail update is just for the intel variety perhaps?
September 30th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
Same here. I have Mail.app in Applications however. My version number hasn’t changed a bit…maybe the version change is Intel only?
September 30th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
I suspect that it provides compatibility with Aperture 1.5 like all the other iLife and iWork apps. Could also just be some security fixes.
September 30th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
No Version number change here!
September 30th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
So you guys are running Mail.app on PPC Macs and still have version numbers at 2.1 (752/752.2)?
September 30th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
I did the 10.4.8 update on my 24-inch Intel Core 2 Duo iMac and my 14-inch iBook G4 last night. Mail.app changed to Version 2.1.1 (752.3) on the Intel iMac. It did not change on the iBook, it remained at 2.1 (752/752.2)?
September 30th, 2006 at 11:46 pm
Thanks for the confirmation, Don.
October 1st, 2006 at 12:15 am
A x.x.1 update probably means that they found a really small bug not worth mentioning. I’ll post any changes I can find…
October 1st, 2006 at 12:57 am
I don’t know when this was added, but keyboard navigation seems to be much better in this version of Mail - previously if you tabbed into the mailbox list you couldn’t navigate up and down with the arrow keys, but this seems to work now.
October 1st, 2006 at 5:53 am
Tabbing to the mailboxes and navigating through them with the keyboard was already in v2.1; have they changed it so a mouse-click works the same way, Neil?
October 3rd, 2006 at 12:56 am
yea now it just hangs and hangs and hangs.
awful.
October 9th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Yes, Thanks, Don,
After my update to 10.4.8 I came here, but didn’t do the right search param.
Finally, after sweating it through Apple Discussions, I am relieved to find that I (on a PPC PB) need sweat no longer. I tried everything to get that last “.1″ to show up.
Thanks again for the thread. Let’s all plan to meet again for the next (mysteriously un-documented) update.
Bill
P.S. After reading here for a while, I just read your Bio, Tim. This is a helpful place, you certainly are >.
P.P.S. Gosh I hope you won’t hold a bad declension against me.
Thanks again.
Bill
October 9th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Hellenic font not working.
meant “polutropon”
October 9th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Hi Bill,
Yes, it was an odd forking of version numbers.
I won’t hold it against you :) Although I am not sure that feeling πολυτÏόπως most days is always good for focus.
March 6th, 2007 at 3:09 am
I have been having real problems with Mac Mail on 10.4.8 (previous versions no issue). PPC Mac Mail is 2.1 (752/752.2) and the Intel Mac is 2.1(752.3). We run a Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server on a Microsoft Small Business Server 2003. The Intel Mac works fine, the PPC Mac takes ages to sync (IMAP or Exchange account) and the Microsoft hard disks thrash for minutes at a time (no CPU usage just disk activity due to IMAP server going mental). The Intel Mac doing the same thing syncs in micro seconds and causes no problems. So, I believe the change between 752.2 and 752.3 is important