10.5.1 is out: Mail and iCal fixes

10.5.1 is out! You can find it in Software Update and on the Apple web site .

It brings – as it needs to – a raft of fixes and patches for everything from Disk Utility to the Finder “data loss bug” to Time Machine. You can read the full list in the Apple tech note that accompanies the update.

What interests us most, perhaps, are the changes to Mail.app and iCal:

It promises more reliable iCal email alarms, that is, they should work now.

UPDATE: And they do! Excellent. Am I becoming hard to please, or is it a little annoying how the alert brings up a new message window and fills it in front of your eyes, interrupting whatever you happen to be doing? I seem to remember in Tiger that these email alerts were created “behind the scenes”.

Let me know how it goes for you.

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Tags: alarms, Apple, Apple Mail, iCal, mail.app, smart mailboxes, update

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4 Responses to “10.5.1 is out: Mail and iCal fixes”

1. John says:

   18 November 2007, 7:50 am at 7:50 am

   iCal has always used applescript to tell Mail to send e-mails. It has always bugged me. I think that in Tiger, Mail was ususally left in the background, so it doesn’t interrupt you, but if you are using Mail when an alarm fires, I can’t imagine that it would really be able to do anything other than bother you.
2. Laurence Vittes says:

   18 November 2007, 5:13 pm at 5:13 pm

   After archiving and installing 10.5, Mail (or Keychain) would not remember my password. After upgrading to 10.5.1, it does. Go figure!
3. Tim Gaden says:

   18 November 2007, 6:33 pm at 6:33 pm

   I had the same experience after the same upgrade method.
4. Boris says:

   18 November 2007, 10:15 pm at 10:15 pm

   i’ve never tried the email-notification but i’m using the ical-notification with sound and dialog. When i’m not in front of the mac i have to see that there was/is an appointment, so the dialog is helpfull.

   But when i’m working on the mac while a notification is comming up, it’s really annoying because the dialog is getting the focus. So when i’m typing something (chat, editor, etc.) the keystrokes are eaten by the notification-dialog. The iCal-Icon is jumping in the dock. I then have to close the dialog and switch to iCal once to calm it down.

   I wish that there was a better way to notify me. Something like an overlay that is not getting the focus. Maybe some of you have a solution for that?