99% of this was not due to anything actually breaking but because of Apple’s policy of forcibly disabling any bundles that were older than the patch release on the assumption that they might have broken.
I’ve been developing a Mail plug-in for 16 years, have talked with other plug-in developers, and have seen how things worked before and after Apple introduced the compatibility UUID policy. There were also some popular utilities for updating the UUID of an old/abandoned plug-in to trick Mail into thinking they had been tested on the new release, and while I don’t recommend doing that my impression was that users generally saw good results.
It will be. SmallCubed expects to have a beta available for the public beta of Monterey in Early July.
That’s great news. Have they announced this publicly?
They really need to overhaul Mail with Pro level workflows and features.
unfortunately Apple may especially reluctant to do this given the antitrust/competition-law scrutiny of late (regardless of the merits of that).
Oh how this makes me crazy... It's such an obvious thing to do. I thought maybe tags were semi-deprecated in Finder since I haven't heard boo about them since, but they show up in iOS Files when using iCloud Drive, so obviously they're still maintained.
Actually, while I prefer a native client myself, increasingly, I suspect most users aren’t even aware that native email clients are even a thing. Most people seem perfectly content to use webmail to access their email. I wonder if that’s why Mail.app doesn’t seem to get a lot of development time at Apple.
SmallCubed's MailSuite does just that, and more. You can get the whole suite, or just Act-On, which adds the feature you mention. https://smallcubed.com
Airmail also seems to be running on their design award from four years ago. I used to love the application, and I'm not saying that I could ever make something close to worthy of such an award, but I think it lost some of its momentum. I was part of a few betas years ago, and they were super-responsive, but I feel like they have, sadly, sort of ghosted on all of us.
What stuff did they demo?
There is nothing. Mac Mail is literally inferior to third party competitors, even some free ones. No one is going to bother to develop anything, unless they do a complete overhaul of the app!
Wow, I don't agree. It's not feature-rich but for basic, smart functionality and its GUI (plus a few easy, breezy yet vital things, like a unified inbox), I really like it.
Everything that Spark has, and does far better. But without stupid inline attachments you don't have a choice about. Without the need to freaking add every single account when you open it on another device. With the conversation view that never works and forgets emails in the chain, that are lost forever. Granted, I would love to use a stock app instead of a third party app, I really would. But it has fundamental flaws and gives little flexibility forcing you to do things their way. I won't even talk about signature creation, that looks and works like something from the 90s, probably hasn't changed since then.
I'v looked and I haven't found any, none were announced here, so im guessing, No!
