MailTags 2.0 Public Beta 9: Better and better
Scott Morrison has released another public beta of the undisputed prince of Mail.app plugins.
How do you make the best plugin better? By making it even more reliable, slicker and easier on the eye.
Scott has polished the interface. You will see substantial tweaks to the to-do pop-up. Alarms have been added for to-dos and events (message with or without audio alert), a nice calendar makes picking the due date for to-dos easier and the tab key now does what it is supposed to:
A long-standing issue with the possible double download of messages in some situations has been fixed. And .Mac accounts now authenticate properly.
Memory leaks have been plugged, leaving Mail “more stable, snappier and less memory-hungry over time”.
You won’t believe how fast Mail now opens large mailboxes.
And the main MailTags pane continues to see improvements. The old “Due Date” section gets a name change to “Deadline” in order to avoid confusion with iCal items.
Parts of the pane are more compactly designed and the Notes section collapses more elegantly.
Behind the scenes, a “Reindex Tags” button has been added to the About/Register Tab of the MailTags Preferences.
This performs a Spotlight import of tags if smart mailboxes are not working properly.
The expiry date for Public Beta 9 has been extended to 15 April 2007, when Scott expects that the final version will be out.
Not bad, eh?
This long list only picks the best bits out of a much longer changelog 
on the MailTags web site.
You can read more about MailTags 2.0 and download the new public beta from Scott’s web site , where you will also find a forum for any questions.
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Tags: Apple Mail, applescript, events, iCal, mail.app, mailtags, Productivity, public beta
March 20th, 2007 at 1:41 am
I would really like to get into MailTags but I am concerned that some of the functionality is going to be built or broken by Leopard.
Has the developer made any statements about Leopard?
BZ
March 20th, 2007 at 1:42 am
BZ, try this for starters:
http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/09/19/will-leopard-mail-kill-mailtags/
March 20th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Think I found the answer.
http://www.indev.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?t=184.
BZ
March 20th, 2007 at 5:57 am
It looks really nice, but I wish they’d fix the two separate date formats in the sidebar – the Deadline date is in dd/mm/yyyy format, but the To Do date format is hard-coded as US format mm/dd/yyyy, which is very confusing.
March 20th, 2007 at 6:04 am
@Karen
I just fixed that this morning. I should have had it in the last beta. If you are really desperate drop me a line (info @ indev.ca) (no spaces of course)
March 20th, 2007 at 8:41 am
Hi smorr,
Thanks very much – I think I’ll wait until the next beta as I’ve noticed some other funny things with the to do links (the message kept getting coloured according to the original to do setting even after I’d deleted the associated to do item).
Karen
March 29th, 2007 at 4:43 am
I have tried everything to get smart mailboxes to work–spotlight re-index, tag re-index, re-start mail, re-start computer… to no avail. To-do complete and To-do incomplete simply do not work as criteria for smart mailboxes. Any hope that this will work in the April release? Thanks… this is my only complaint… the rest of it is speedy and snappy, and I love it… just gotta have those smart ‘boxes working.
a.
April 1st, 2007 at 6:13 am
@ A…
I have resolved this internally — Expected it in an upcoming release.