Apple has changed Mail in the today released Mac OS X 10.5.6 which results in a crash if you have Letter Opener installed. An updated version is already available.

Please use the build-in update function (Mail Menu -> Letter Opener -> Check for updates…), or download Letter Opener 2.0.7 here.

Troubleshooting Document: Mac OS X 10.5.6: Mail unexpectedly quits (TS2486).

Beta 6 support winmail.dat files in encrypted messages, improved winmail.dat file recognition, and as always bug fixes.

Note: The last two betas include sparkle 1.5b4 and there are still some problems with that.

If you already using the beta, please use the build-in update function (Mail Menu -> OMiC -> Check for updates…), else just write me a line.

By the way, I’m try to get into this twitter thing, so if you like you can follow me.

This beta version fine tune the new integration into Mail. Also the winmail.dat converter itself got lot of bug fixes.

It took again a long time to release this beta, one of the main show stopper is the still existing GMail IMAP issue.

If you already using the beta, please use the build-in update function (Mail Menu -> OMiC -> Check for updates…), else just write me a line.

If you are using googles popular mail services GMail over IMAP and demand on winmail.dat files you will run into a problem.

GMail IMAP doesn’t return the senders original winmail.dat file, it return a home-cooked file which have only the name in common. In this case, not even Microsoft Outlook can handle the winmail.dat file.

I tried to contact google about this issue over many different ways, but didn’t get a answer.

There are two workarounds: Switch back to GMail POP3 or use GMail web interface to access mails with winmail.dat attachment.

Tiger and Panther support is back in this beta. This was in some cases a real nightmare, you fix on thing, but break another… And I don’t want to start talk about time estimation, if I told you a total wrong date for this beta release, I’m sorry!

But let’s look at the good side: There are lot of bug fixes in it and it’s even better integrated into Mail than the last beta. Now you can over View Menu -> Message -> Plain Text Alternative/Best Alternative switch OMiC on/off. So a message with a winmail.dat attachment is now for Mail like a message with two alternatives like plain text and html.

If you already using the beta please use the build-in update function (Mail Menu -> Plug-Ins -> OMiC -> Check for updates…), else write me a line.

Monday and Tuesday I needed to get away from OMiC because all my trials over the weekend fail and so I looked into Microsoft Entourage 2008 Plug-in development.

I got it, you want a Entourage version for OMiC. My last try is now to contact the General Manager of the Macintosh Business Unit, Craig Eisler. Hope he is kind enough to answer.

Wednesday I looked into the issue why Microsoft Outlook creates ATT000xx.txt attachments, I will blog about it soon.

Thursday finally located most Panther issues and start fixing them. I used for this 10.3 and the Xcode tools which comes with this, this was like a time machine. And I won an systemhelden/systemheroes t-shirt, unexpectedly, for sending feedback ;).

Friday fixing Panther issues, and I found a Mac OS X Tiger Install DVD and was able to setup up my old PowerBook G4 as test and build systems for OMiC 2. It’s now running 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5, and now I can use it without the external drive.

When running your own software business it is important that your website don’t go down, everything runs over your website. I current use a Hetzner dedicated server, and was unsure about the network availability after reading some blog posts.

Here comes SiteUptime into the game, which give you a free and simple way to monitor your website. And a short time this night my site wasn’t available, so I will try to check this with Hetzner and keep a eye on it.

A short update to OMiC, the last beta version in running very well on Leopard, the problem is still supporting Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.

Fix a bug which display a empty message when X-Ms-Tnef-Correlator header field is present and no winmail.dat is attached. Thank you all for your feedback!

If you already using the beta please use the build-in update function (Mail Menu -> Plug-Ins -> OMiC -> Check for updates…), else write me a line.

Hidden in the list of 300+ new Mac OS X Leopard features, titled there as “Forward as Attachment”. What’s the big deal about? I like the quote: You can also drag and drop Mail messages into applications like iChat and they’ll be sent as attachments.

Do not mistake the *.eml with the *.emlx files, the last is used internal by Apple Mail.

I have got a lot of requests of Entourage users, who want OMiC for Entourage. In fact, at the first request I kind of thought this user must be crazy. I would have bet on Microsoft Entourages support of winmail.dat files, which are sent from Microsoft Outlook or Exchange Server. But it didn’t, and there is no way to develop Plug-ins for Entourage 2004.

Yesterday the Blögger (an austrian blogger) Georg Holzer wrote that a PR agency offers him access to the Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 Beta, with the site note that it’s already available in the torrent networks. This call my attention!

A first look at the dirty download and I discovered a Plug-ins folder in the Entourage application bundle. I current can’t tell you more because the dirty downloaded beta is expired. I wonder that there is no way as µISV to get access to the beta program of Microsoft Office for Mac 2008.