Mailsmith

Mailsmith is a Internet email client for Mac OS X which offers unparalleled filtering, searching, editing and scripting capabilities. In addition to the strides made in these areas, Mailsmith breaks new ground in making powerful email-handling capabilities accessible to users of all levels.

Features

• Compatibility: Standards-based
• Multi-threaded processing
• Distributed Filters
• Approximate ("fuzzy") searching
• Advanced Querying for Mail: including options for using 'grep' pattern matching
• Powerful OSA scripting:
• Advanced text composition
• Integrated Spelling Checker
• Develop your own Mailsmith Plug-ins
• Integration with Internet Config System

Note: Now requires OS X 10.8.5 or later.

Additions

• When launched from the disk image (or some other location that isn't an Applications folder), Mailsmith will now offer to move itself to your Applications folder, which is where it should be.

Changes

• PowerPC deployment is no longer supported; this version will run only on Intel Macs running 10.8.5 or later.
• The mailbox list in the Mail Browser window no longer allows keyboard focus by default. This generally makes it easier to navigate, since moving focus from the message list to the message pane requires fewer gestures. If you liked it the old way, use this line in a Terminal window:

  defaults write com.barebones.mailsmith "MailBrowserSettings:MailboxListCanHaveFocus" -bool YES

Fixes

• Worked around a bug on OS X 10.9 (15308757) which prevented the dock icon from being badged when new mail arrived or an error occurred.
• Added NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching=YES to the application property list to prevent lighting up the discrete GPU on applicable hardware.
• Made a change to reduce flickering of the dock icon observed while typing on 10.9 and later.
• Fixed a memory leak in the Eudora mailbox importer.
• Code sign release builds using the Developer ID certificate, for improved Gatekeeper compatibility.
• Removed support for the PlayFastAndLooseWithTimeMachine expert preference; Mailsmith no longer attempts to request an exemption from Time Machine backup for databases in the Mailsmith User Data folder, since this no longer works and causes the OS to generate a scary-sounding message in the system log.
• HTML and QuickTime items that used to be saved into Temporary Items and deleted when the message view is closed are now saved into ~/Library/Caches/Mailsmith and are not deleted. (Items will accumulate in the Caches subdirectory and can be manually deleted if desired.) Enclosures extracted into ~/Library/Caches/Mailsmith/ will have permissions set such that only the account that created the files can read them.
• Worked around a bug in the OS which broke address completion out of the address book when attempting to match a group name.
• Worked around multiple bugs in the OS which prevented the Addresses window from behaving reasonably. Multiple selection works now, and the window's shape and the column settings are now remembered across invocations of the window (and application).
• Deleted or reworked a bunch of code that depended on QuickTime. This includes image and movie detection, sound playback, and some really strange utility code.
• The crash reporter now auto-fills the email address from the address book. A button to go to our Privacy Policy page and additional verbiage are included.
• The built-in Software Update (for non-app-store builds) will now unpack into a subdirectory of ~/Library/Caches/, to avoid a use case in which unpacking completes into a subdirectory of /tmp, and then the user waits overnight to do the installation, and in the meantime the OS clears /tmp which results in an error when trying to apply the update the next day.
• Corrected keyboard focus in the Software Update prompt window.
• Corrected keyboard focus in the crash reporter window.
• Added an NSContactsUsageDescription key so that the "needs access to your contacts" prompt for the crash reporter explains how the information is used.