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Mailboxer v5¶
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Mailboxer has been out for well over a year but only recently it started being more widely known. And once that had happened I received a number of e-mails reporting small glitches or asking for improvements. Which I tried to accomodate. The outcome of that is our current release, v5 of Mailboxer.
The most immediately noticeable improvement of the application is that it now comes with an icon. No more default application icon, then! (Ahich actually was a ‘complaint’ about the little tool that I found in some review) Instead a pretty ‘Smart Mailbox’ icon that was contributed by Henrik Cederblad. Big thanks to Henrik!
Big thanks go to Ronald Leroux as well for providing Mailboxer’s French localisation for the tool. Which in turn forced me to go and add a German localisation as well. So we’are starting to be international because of that.
But let’s look under the hood, shall we? Once it is launched, Mailboxer now comes with a tacky huge icon filled window not unlike Earth Addresser’s. In addition to the huge icons, you will find a menu to pick a group from your Address Book from and a text field that lets you set the name of the Smart Mailbox Folder inserted into Mail. Mailboxer also tries to keep you informed about what exactly clicking that seductively pulsing button will do.
As a response to the feedback we received we now also have a Preferences window where you can adjust the contents of the Smart Mailboxes as well as their view options. While I am not a big fan of preferences – after all I do have good taste, so why would anybody want anything else – offering those options seems par for an application that in itself is nothing but a way to adjust the setup of another application. And as the feedback I received indicated that Mail’s way of displaying those new Smart Mailboxes isn’t 100% predictable, I even had a real world excuse for those settings.
And that’s pretty much it. Enjoy.
