Leopard Mail development continues behind (mostly) closed doors
A poster in the realmac software forum, perhaps sitting rather loosely to whatever NDA he might have signed, offers a glimpse (UPDATE: The link is dead. The post is pulled) 
of continued development in Leopard.
He writes:
Just installed the newest release of Leopard. Nothing major just some bug fixes around the new mail app and other minor issues. There are some new firewall settings which seem to a very nice addition.
Since this is my first year as a developer and the first time I have been able to load pre-release software I can’t say at this point that it was a very good or bad decision. Per my previous posts Leopard is an evolution of Tiger and there really are not that many things, I feel, to get excited about for most users. The integration of the calendar with mail and to do is really nice and should give users of Entourage a run for their money.
I thought that stamping out bugs before a product’s release was a dying art, so that bit sounds good.
I don’t know any more. If you do, you had better keep it to yourself.
Sadly.
Tags: Apple, Apple Mail, bugs, leopard mail, mail.app, NDA, teaseRelated posts
November 23rd, 2006 at 12:56 am
“new mail app”? Is this something I should read some significance into?
November 23rd, 2006 at 1:19 am
“I don’t know any more. If you do, you had better keep it to yourself.”
Nonsense. Don’t keep it to yourself. Just use an anonymous proxy server and let us all know what’s going on in the latest seeds…
Personally, I’d love to know if the new iCal API is read/write or read only.
November 23rd, 2006 at 8:57 am
The link does not work.
Either way, kind of makes you wonder why he would be so silly as to post 1) How long he’s been there (making it easy to find out who he is) 2) Downplay what he’s actually working on.
But that’s just me
November 23rd, 2006 at 9:02 am
Ha! Looks like realmac software has pulled the post. It didn’t say much that I didn’t quote, although in earlier posts on the same forum he was more expansive.
But, as you say, it does make you wonder.
November 26th, 2006 at 3:50 am
So is the Leopard coming january or may? :o