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DESCRIPTION
MailTags allows you to add comments, due dates, projects and priority to your messages right inside your mail viewer window. You can then this metadata as the basis for Spotlight searches, Smart Mailboxes, and Mail Rules. For example, you can create a Smart Mailbox that will show you all messages in project: "Great Novel" that have a due date in the next three days.

Key Features:

Integrated Interface

  • Use MailTags' convenient side panel to add tags keywords, project, priority, notes to your messages.
iCal Support
  • Create To Dos and Events in iCal directly from Mail and maintain the link between the original message and the items in iCal.
IMAP support
  • Save your tags to your IMAP servers so you can access them from multiple computers.
List Display
  • Display your tags in extra columns in the message list view. See due dates as they approach.
Works with Mail’s Rules
  • Set tags automatically as you receive Mail by using MailTags actions when creating a Mail rule. Use with Mail Act-On to create keystroke rules to tag messages.
Works with Mail's Search
  • Search for your tags by using Mail’s search field, narrow the search to on keywords, projects or notes. Use simple and/or logic to find tags.
Works with Mail's Smart Mailboxes
  • Build smart mailboxes that search your messages for keywords, projects and due dates.
Applescript Compatible
  • Construct Applescript work flows that access your MailTags data to use them in other applications.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.2.3 fixes an incompatibility introduced in 2.2.2 where Mail would not launch properly if WideMail or LetterBox is installed but Mail Act-On is not installed.

Version 2.2.2:

This version of MailTags brings some minor enhancements to increase efficiency when working with Mail Act-On Rules and IMAP messages.

Enhancements

  • Setting tags via menus now delays IMAP update until a new selection is made. This allows much improved speed when setting multiple tags via menus.
  • Setting Tags via act-on rules now delays IMAP update until a new selection is made -- again this allows much improved speed with running multiple rules.
  • Expired Trials are now given a new 7 day trial period for testing bug fixes and enhancements.

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved issue where project colors may not show in OS X 10.5.5.
  • Resolved issue with autotagging replies not happening properly.
  • Resolved issue when editing rule where criteria may show as "From" when it should be a MailTag criteria.
  • Resolved issue where color priority items in preferences where editable text field, possibly leading to a exception
  • Resolved issue with MDImporter causing importer to crash in some circumstances
  • Resolved issue where MailTags would stall on configuring undo action in some circumstances
  • Address memory issues linked to overall stability
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later, Mail 3.0 or later, Spotlight must be enabled.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Indev
Downloads:22,220
  - Version d/l:1,517
Internet:Email
License:Shareware
Date:19 Nov 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$29.95
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Nov 24 2008

RARO  Actually a great app indeed. I have used it extensively. But after a while, I wasn't able to access certain Mailboxes anymore. The only measure that helped was to disable MailTags.   
(Version 2.2.3)

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Nov 19 2008

EJI  Looks like it conflicts with WideMail v.51. The Mail.app message window won't open, and if you manually select it from the Window category in the menubar, it brings up one messy mail interface. Crap.  
(Version 2.2.2)

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Nov 19 2008

EJI  Yep, it's a WideMail conflict.

Reverting back to MailTags 2.2.1 solves the problem:

http://www.indev.ca/MailTags2.2.1.dmg

Guess I'll wait until either MT or WM is updated before I upgrade.  
(Version 2.2.2)

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Nov 19 2008

SMORR  I'll look into this.   
(Version 2.2.2)

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Nov 19 2008

SMORR  Another update -- This is a problem if you don't have Act-On Installed. I will fix it ASAP  
(Version 2.2.2)

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Nov 19 2008

SMORR  This has been fixed with MailTags 2.2.3  
(Version 2.2.3)

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Jul 9 2008

MALISTA  I've been using MailTags since day 1, looking for an alternative to Entourage which had better features at the time.

MailTags saved Mail for me, no less!

its free working sibling must be mentioned: Act-on.

bring QuickSilver in the equation, and your workflow becomes seemless.

highly recommended.  
(Version 2.2.1)

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Jul 9 2008
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ONEBLESSEDGUY  I don't understand the review below. I have installed it and it works great. Perhaps there is an incompatibility with another plug-in that the reviewer has installed.

At any rate, I wanted to post something that states how much this program has already helped me and I've only been using it about 2 weeks! First, because I was using Mail Act-on, this program was easy to implement b/c I already had many rules set up. I was able to adjust my rules to include mail tags and get even better filtering and email flowthrough!

Second, b/c of mailtags I was able to implement a GTD workflow of my emails that has left my inbox empty and my to-dos organized. I actually enjoy it when I get an email b/c I get to organize it away. I'm ready to handle more than I feel like I ever have been.

Third, the hardest thing to do was to set up what I wanted in a workflow, did I want to use a Today, Tomorrow, Next Week, This Month kind of smart folder and file accordingly or did I want to use a color system with colors changing as the day approached. Almost anything is possible with MailTags.

Try it out! I don't know what I did with my emails before I did this. But I know I wasn't as efficient as I am now.  
(Version 2.2.1)

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Mar 4 2008
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EGN  This is definitely not there yet. Just messed up the messages that I tagged. Could not drag them to any of my forlders; they just popped back in to the orginal folder. Not even after deinstalling. I had to delete the messages to get them off. Anything MT touched it messed up. All the other emails that I did not tag with it were OK. So it's off my Mac. This is the 2nd time I've tried to use it and the second time it does something I don't like. !  
(Version 2.2pb5)

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Jan 3 2008

BLLOYD  This mail plug-in has been fantastically useful for me. I'm not using all of the functionality, but rather just adding tags to messages (waiting, follow-up, etc.) and using the OmniFocus plug-in so I can quickly move to-do items as follow-ups over there where I manage them in a centralized location.

I tried to work with Leopard's to do functionality but it had some real limitations which made it unusable for me (specifically, if you have a few hundred to-do items over the course of all time with Leopard, which I did, it breaks down).

The developer has been fantastic in quickly resolving issues, and in adding much needed functionality. This is a core productivity application for me, along with OmniFocus and Circus Ponies Notebook I can efficiently keep track of whatever I need to, and follow up in a timely manner. Nothing falls through the cracks anymore.  
(Version 2.2b24)

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Dec 20 2007

BOBVB  Seems all of the 10.4 features I had used are back

BUT

I went into the Mail preferences MailTag panel and deleted a keyword I had defined and replace with another. All my mail with that keyword also disappeared from the .Mac IMAP account they were in. Fortunately they were local copied on my shut down laptop and I was able to recover them by quickly turning off the wifi and copying them to the hard disk.

Still a bit scary and emphasis on the 'beta' still.  
(Version 2.2b12)

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Dec 7 2007

TUISHIMI  Leopard 10.5.1, Mail 3.0, latest Beta of Mail Tags.

Doesn't seem to be working, no keyword searches (dynamic folders) work. Could be I missed that it was not working in the release notes.

Uninstalling for now.  
(Version 2.2b12)

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Nov 29 2007

LEESA  I bought and loved this app when I was using Tiger. Now that I'm using Leopard the only thing I purchased it for is gone: todos. I loved being able to sort my inbox by due dates as well as being able to rename the subject of those items. I mainly used it for sorting ebills.

The todos Leopard Mail offers are useless for me, I never wanted to have to have another window open to see my todo items. And until Apple offers a way to sort by todos in the inbox, I almost don't see the point.

Developers: please bring back this functionality in MailTags! I feel like I spent the money for nothing. :(   
(Version 2.2b12)

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Dec 14 2007

SMORR  I am adding to do and events back in forthcoming beta 3. It took a couple of revisions as it was substantive changes in Mail.  
(Version 2.2b12)

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Dec 14 2007

LEESA  that's great news, thank you.

mailtags is an excellent app that quickly became totally essential to me dealing with my mail. it was so much a part of my daily life i've even considered switching back to tiger just to get all the features back.

i look forward to the next beta!  
(Version 2.2b12)

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Jul 30 2007

BEBDABHRHBRWEFG 3R§5Y5H4WTEDSFB  version 2 seems a lot slower than version 1,x - especially when performing actions on multiple emails.

also. with v2 - when i have a group of emails selected and then control+click to add a mailtags keyword, mailtags drops the selection afterwards. mailtags v1 kept the emails selected so that, after adding a keyword, i could then perform another action on that selection. please revert to the v1 way of doing things!

[have tried to mention this one the developer's discussion forum, but after attempting to register twice i've yet to receive the email telling me my account has been activated - perhaps the developer isn't that interested in what users think, after all]  
(Version 2.0.1)

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