Archive for the 'General' Category

Letter Opener 2.0.7 compatible with Mac OS X 10.5.6

Monday, December 15th, 2008
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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).


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OMiC Version 2.0 Beta 6 (Leopard ready)

Thursday, July 31st, 2008
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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.

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OMiC Version 2.0 Beta 5 (Leopard ready)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
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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.

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Google GMail and winmail.dat files

Saturday, June 28th, 2008
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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.

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OMiC Version 2.0 Beta 4

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
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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.

 

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Last try for an Entourage version of OMiC

Monday, January 21st, 2008
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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.

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The show must go on

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
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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.

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OMiC Version 2.0 Beta 3

Thursday, December 6th, 2007
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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.

 

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Leopard Mail handle *.eml files

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
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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.

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Microsoft Entourage 2008

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
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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.

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