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Mail Stamps 2.1

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Modify the Tiger Mail.app toolbar. Free

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Mail Stamps allows you to use full-size Panther-style toolbar items in Mail. Mail Stamps replaces Mail's default toolbar buttons with toolbar icons from Mac OS 10.3 (Panther). After applying Mail Stamps, toolbar items become larger, more detailed and better looking.

Read important installation information at: andrewescobar.com/mailstamps

What's New

Version 2.1:

Universal Binary (Intel and PowerPC architectures)
Minor bug fix.

Requirements
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Mail 2.0.

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Mail Stamps User Discussion (Write a Review)

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silverdr reviewed on 17 Jul 2007

A very useful and well done tool. It allows to wuickly resotre the arguably much better icons of the previous Mail.app to the new one. They IMHO do not only look better and more pleasing but also are much more compliant to the usability guidelines. Thanks for that little gem, which makes replacing the appropriate resources such an easy process and spare me doing that by hand with every computer being set up.

[Version 2.1]

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dobes reviewed on 12 Oct 2006

Thanks, this actually looks very nice. I didn't like the connected buttons in Tiger.

[Version 2.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 03 Jun 2005

Great idea and looks better than Cage Fighter.

Just hope in the future Apple can sort out the mess that is Tiger Mail.

Has anyone tried running Panther Mail under Tiger ?

[Version 1.1]

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Anonymous commented on 20 Aug 2005

yes, panther mail will work with tiger. when you click on the mail icon,mail will be updated with all the new options.

Anonymous reviewed on 26 May 2005

My toolbar looks great! Mail Stamps is awesome. Its so much better than the others. Thanks for the update.

[Version 1.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 23 May 2005

Dont success to install mail stamp even after placing the intaller in the Apps folder! Can help me?

[Version 1.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 23 May 2005

Excellent application! Works exactly as advertised. I finally have my old icons back. Thank you!

Also, to anybody who gives this program a bad rating because they like the old icons: shame on you. This program works as advertised and serves an audience. If you're not that audience, then don't use it. You're artificially deflating the ratings, and that's wrong.

[Version 1.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 23 May 2005

ugly mail icons gone. yess!

[Version 1.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 20 May 2005

Brilliant, just what I wanted. Mail is now as good looking as it was in early pre-releases.................

[Version 1.0b]

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Anonymous reviewed on 20 May 2005

I don't understand why people don't like the new mail interface. It's more clean and intuitive. The old buttons were like toys... I wish that all tiger were like that.

As an advice, mail stamp is useless!

[Version 1.0b]

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Anonymous commented on 20 May 2005

Mail Stamps isn't useless, its just useless to _you_. If you like the look of mail, then why the hell download Mail Stamps? Did you not read the description? Your not the target audience.

Mail Stamps works great! If your unhappy with Mail's new look, download it. You'll be really pleased to get the old panther style toolbar again.

Anonymous commented on 20 May 2005

I agree with the original poster - Tiger Mail.app looks clean and sleak. I don' tknow why so many people think it's ugly. Odd.

Anonymous commented on 20 May 2005

Well, the new Mail toolbar is definately a departure form the OS X style many people have come to grow accustomed to. Traditionally OS X toolbars have been a pretty simple formula, that morrors the overall finder icon style. A semi-photorealistic (but not quite) image above an optional text label.

Many people dislike the new Mail buttons because (whether they realize ot or not) they think they violate this original formula. They are smaller than previous versions, and somewhat less photorealistic (the RE: & Fwd: icons no longer have anything except an arrow whereas previous versions had a stamp or something).

All that said, while it took me a little while to get used to it, I do prefer the new icons for these reasons:

1. They are a little smaller and save screen space (10 px here or there is a big deal to me even on a 17 inch Powerbook).
2. They look like buttons. We've been trained for years "If you want to do something click a button". The new icons use that long term training to make the toolbar more intuitive.

Still, I do kind of miss the eye candy of the more pretty icons & can understand why others may miss it enough top want to regain them.