No they are not lying. In Sonoma plugins won't work and the new Mail extensions simply won't support the very useful features of the current Mailsuite plugins (particularly MailTags and MailAct-On). So don't slander them.
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macOS Sonoma Drops Support for Legacy Mail App Plug-ins
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If you want a chromium browser yeh. But if you want to get away from chrome and use something native to mac, then orion is better, as well as faster.
It amazes me that, 20 years on, Firefox is still the only web browser that offers any substantive level of cookie management.
Am I annoyed that the MailSuite will no longer be supported? Sure. But in the long run, it’s better for Apple to continue locking down the security on Mail. I can get behind that.
I saw this the day when apple silicon was released. Still waiting for terminal to be retired. After all, server world is dominated by Linux, not macOS.
And their native apps are still the worst in its class. I have never seen any modern browser having such tremendous difficulty loading webpages like Safari did, and iOS 17 beta almost breaks Safari to A point of no return (yes, will be fixed but that’s not the point).
Just for the record, setting up rules in Apple mail never works. I have to rely on Microsoft outlook on windows to help me managing those incoming emails. It’s just a joke.
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And eventually the system as well. Might as well call macOS “iOS for Mac“ at that point.
I've been submitting this feature requests for years.
What i want is for the Finder tags to intigrate across other Apple apps like Mail, Notes, Reminders etc.
I want to be able to tag things across multiple apps and be able to view them all in single interface.
MailTags (now part of SmallCubed’s MailSuite) was the extension/plug-in that made Mail.app fly. Sad times.
Fingers crossed, SmallCubed’s upcoming stand alone app, MailMaven — https://mailmaven.app/ — will be a worthy replacement.
Fingers crossed, SmallCubed’s upcoming stand alone app, MailMaven — https://mailmaven.app/ — will be a worthy replacement.
I tested many different email systems and always went back to Apple Mail
Have you diagnosed what is actually happening and the underlying cause?
Does this only happen with particular jpegs? does it happen with other file formats like PNG or if you change the extension to add a .bin to the end? Does it only happen with this one person?
I've never heard or encountered anything like this, and find it fascinating that a app plugin would exist to try to work around what sounds like a server software issue.
I need the ability to not have mails as read when i scroll through them as i have missed really important things in the past.
I used Mail Act-On from smallcubed / mailsuite. to do this. They are stopping as we know and pushing their email client. I like the Apple mail app.
Does anyone know of any workarounds?
I used Mail Act-On from smallcubed / mailsuite. to do this. They are stopping as we know and pushing their email client. I like the Apple mail app.
Does anyone know of any workarounds?
They could go for "iMacOS" eventually.
Is that still needed if you use Mail Privacy Protection?
Edit: On the GitHub page of MailTrackerBlocker it says:
These changes are engineered to give consumers more privacy and security over their invaluable email communications. Only Apple can do this.
If that was the aim they would also remove the support for HTML mails completely.
Just what the world desperately needs... another email client. Hopefully it won't use a subscription business model
I just gave Orion a go. One of the things I like about Firefox is that I can customise it, especially the tabs, as I don't like the way Safari looks. Orion, of course, mimics the Safari way of doing things. However, that's a minor thing. The fact that keychain and text expansion work is a great thing. Plus I could install a couple of Firefox extensions. Magic!
Anyway, so I tried two websites ...
https://forums.macrumors.com/whats-new/posts/ - this worked as expected. Going back from posts to threads to forum lists is a bit slower than Firefox but that's to be expected. Safari is bad at that too.
https://www.sunrisetv.ch/en/epg/initial - failed to open at all, even if I disabled every blocking/anti-tracking/anti-cookie option.
So I had to delete it. I do like the idea of Orion though, and I'll give it another go in a few months.
I wish Apple mail just added some keyboard functionality to quickly file emails to different mail folders.
I don't know if you have tried it already, but when I send a mail with an image attachment to a Windows user:
1) I drag the image into the mail
2) I right click on the image and select 'Show as symbol'
Works great for me.
I had a problem with attachments starting with this first Sonoma beta. It would send them OK if I sent the email totally in plain text, but the moment I changed to rich text, or switched automatically via, say, changing one word to bold, then the attachments wouldn't show for the recipient.
They WOULD show in Apple Mail, and looking at the raw mail contents, the attachment was there but put in a faulty wrapper.
I'm not 100% sure if I've fixed it (need to do more testing) but I shut down Mail and then deleted ebvery directory called "Mail" (there were a few!) in ~/Library/Containers. This seems to have fixed my issue.
I’m willing to give it a try (especially since I still have 9 months remaining on my current subscription). SmallCubed should probably offer refunds to people who have substantial parts of their subscription period to run since they (SmallCubed)knew that this was a possibility.
And they may. I’ve been impressed with their customer service. This really sucks for them. It’s like getting Sherlocked without there actually being a Sherlocking app.
No meaningful updates, as is tradition.