9 posts tagged ‘Apple Mail’
The Developers Who Came in From the Cold
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Paul Kafasis: In 2020, the disaster foreshadowed literally one sentence ago struck. Beta versions of MacOS 11 broke ACE, our then-current audio capture technology, and the damage looked permanent. When we spoke briefly to Apple during WWDC 2020, our appeals for assistance were flatly rejected.[…]With this in mind, we engaged in further discussions with the […]
macOS 15.2
Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS Sequoia 15.2 adds Image Playground, an app that lets you create images based on text descriptions. You can type in whatever you like, but Apple will suggest costumes, locations, and items that you can add to an image. You can generate images that resemble […]
SpamSieve 3.1
SpamSieve 3.1 improves the accuracy of my Mac e-mail spam filter, amongst many other enhancements. Some interesting issues were: NSHelpManager seems to be broken under Sequoia in that sometimes you have to click a help link multiple times for it to open the right page—until then it just opens the main help book page (FB15763353). […]
Apple Intelligence in macOS 15.2 and iOS 18.2
Six Colors: On Wednesday, Apple rolled out developer betas of iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS 15.2, which run Apple Intelligence features previously seen only in Apple’s own marketing materials and product announcements: Three different kinds of image generation, ChatGPT support, Visual Intelligence, expanded English language support, and Writing Tools prompts. […] It’s still English-only […]
SpamSieve 3.0.3
SpamSieve 3.0.3 is another maintenance update. The main focus is working around various cases where Apple Mail doesn’t behave properly, resulting in hangs or messages not being filtered or trained. Some interesting bugs were: Some customers were seeing a crash when SpamSieve updated its Dock icon badging. It turns out that setting NSApplication.applicationIconImage will throw […]
Filing Mail Messages on Sonoma Using the Keyboard
Adam Tow: As I continue to investigate how to bring MsgFiler to macOS Sonoma, here’s a tip from a user that allows you to file messages via the keyboard on Sonoma. It also works on previous versions of macOS dating back to 2011.Select a message to fileClick on the Help menu or press Command-Shift-/Type in […]
SpamSieve 3.0.2
SpamSieve 3.0.2 greatly improves the workaround for the macOS bug where sometimes Mail extensions don’t work at all. By reading Mail’s database directly, instead of using AppleScript, SpamSieve is able to work much faster, with no overhead in Mail itself. It’s also no longer limited by mailboxes that have so many messages that Mail would […]
Mail Extension Postmortem
Tucky Wong: While Daylite, including the Daylite Mail Assistant, is compatible with macOS Sonoma, we strongly recommend that you hold off on upgrading to Sonoma at this time. Our recommendation is based on feedback from early adopters, which has highlighted a potential significant interruption in your current email workflows. Additionally, we are actively addressing certain […]