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I guess the subject column is too short sometimes

December 18th, 2007 by aaronharnly

So I opened up Mail.app to this very spammy-looking message today:

Before I tossed it streetside with the rest of the trash, though, I happened to switch to preview-at-the-bottom mode. Ah, I see!

Lesson: Alright, you guys win — I’ll work on a two-line column for Letterbox. (Letterbox work is a Sundays-only deal at this point, but I’ll try to make progress nonetheless).

~aaron

P.S. Yes, comments are broken. I dunno, will look at it when I have time.

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Letterbox 0.22 - Leopard public beta

December 4th, 2007 by aaronharnly

After a long wait, we have in our clutches a Leopard-friendly (actually, Leopard-only) build of Letterbox. It also rolls in some other nice improvements. Full deets below the fold.

This version adds Leopard compatibility, a spiffy auto-updating mechanism, a simple preference pane, and menu items for quick switching. It does not yet have a two-line column, which will wait for another day. I’ll probably push out a very minor update by today or tomorrow, just to test the auto-updating mechanism. Any and all feedback is appreciated.

Also: Some of you are probably making use of Dane’s Harnett’s excellent work on WidescreenMailPlugin. I welcome cross-fertilization of ideas or even code. Feel free to let me know what’s working better in one or the other, and hopefully we can keep making our Mail.app experience a little more pleasant for everybody. This go-round I really will make Letterbox’s source code, as well as the underlying improvements to the Mail plugin template, available.

I do suspect, though, that it’s a good idea to have only one or the other enabled at any one time. You can use the MailPluginManager application included with Letterbox to temporarily disable WidescreenMailPlugin — or Letterbox — for the sake of testing.

cheers, Aaron

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