WideMail

Hi Everyone,
Once again I apologise for being slack and not updating this site and getting an updated release in time for 10.6.4.
However, this weekend I will work on getting an official release which will also have a bug fix for the “blank subject” bug.
I am actually taking 3 months off of my day job to travel to Florida and holiday/visit friends/try new things (which include dedicating more time to WideMail) so this will allow me to get a bit more done.

Hopefully you have seen that I have moved WideMail website to widemailplugin.com and it will live here now.

Talk Soon

Dane

If you have issues with WideMail crashing please try the bug workarounds in my previous post and also check what other plugins you have installed in Mail.app WideMail has a few incompatibilities with plugins such as: GrowlMail, Letterbox.

To completely remove WideMail from your system follow these steps:

Delete the files located at:
Where ~ is your home directory

~/Library/Mail/Bundles/WideMail.mailbundle

~/Library/Preferences/com.daneharnett.widemail.plist

A couple of bugs seem to be common and I believe I have a workaround for them.

If Mail.app is crashing or freezing while scrolling or the WideMail column will not stay between mailbox switches try these options:

Delete the WideMail prefs located at: ~/Library/Preferences/com.daneharnett.widemail.plist
where (~ is your home directory)

WideMail has a problem with “messages with blank subjects” to rectify this add a character or extra token to the line that contains “Subject”.

Hopefully this helps everyone and I’ll be working to fix these bugs in the near future.

Hi Everyone,It seems my previous workaround post has confused some users.WideMail is currently NOT COMPATIBLE with Snow Leopard. The plugin will be disabled upon launching Mail.app.I am working hard trying to port WideMail to the Snow Leopard version of Mail.app and this is proving very challenging, I am moving forward slowly with the help of some very talented programmers but still have quite a way to go.Hopefully i will have something available soon.Cheers,Dane

I have been recieving a few emails from WideMail users who have recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and have found that thier subject columns are remaining hidden.

As WideMail provides the ability to show/hide the subject column in order to rectify this situation you will have to manually edit the com.apple.mail.plist file located in ~/Library/Preferences/ (where ~ is your home directory).

QUIT Mail.app FIRST!

To edit the plist file you must use the Property List Editor application that comes installed with the Developer Tools.

You must edit keys within:

Root/TableColumns/

Located in this key are: drafts, normal, notes, outgoing, rss, smart.

Within each of these keys are a list of ids, the subject column id is “2″.

Inside each of the subject column ids change the value of “isVisible” to YES.

Save the plist file and quit Property List Editor.

Relaunch Mail.app and the subject column should now be visible.

If you have further problems please note them in the comments below.

Cheers,

Dane

Hi All,

I know you haven’t heard from me in a long time (life goes by quickly when you’re having fun!!).

This is just a quick update to say thanks for all the donations and that I have put them to good use purchasing an ADC Select membership so I can get an advance version of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Once I get this installed I will begin testing WideMail 0.5.1 on Snow Leopard and hope to release a version that will work on both 10.5.7 and 10.6.0.

I am also trying to put aside some spare time to work on WideMail and implement some new features and squash some of the long standing bugs.

Cheers,

Dane

Hi everyone,

If you have uninstalled widemail and are missing your subject column but cannot retrieve it because a reinstall of widemail will crash mail you just need to trash the widemail preferences located at:

~/Library/Preferences/com.daneharnett.widemail.plist

This will allow you to reinstall widemail and run it once (it will crash again on 2nd launch), so you can re-enable the subject column and remove widemail again.

We are currently working on a solution to this problem however i believe the problem is in sparkle.framework which may mean we have to remove the auto-update mechanism until we can figure it out.

Cheers

Dane

WideMail Developer

It seems many users are having this problem, at this time I believe the problem lies in Sparkle.framework the auto-update mechanism.

Would anyone like to volunteer to help me test and diagnose this problem?

Hopefully we can have it fixed by v0.5.1

Hi Everyone,

Yes I am still here and development has been moving along nicely thanks to some help from Pico Mitchell with the preferences.

Notable New Features for v0.5 are:

• Native Mail.app Preference Pane.
•  Right alignment of fields in the WideMail Column.
• Auto-Update support via Sparkle.framework.
• Various Bug Fixes.

Check out some screenshots below:

Right alignment in WideMail Column.

General Settings Preferences

Column Formatting Preferences

About WideMail.

WideMail v0.5 is due out very soon!!!

Thanks

Dane Harnett (WideMail Developer)

Here’s a quick sneak peek at v0.1.2 which includes user changeable settings using an included preferences application (preference pane coming soon).

Version 0.1.2 is coming very soon!