Sorry for the late delivery, here is the latest release of WideMail.

Updates in this release:

•    Fixed: Crashes and freezes due to blank entries.
•    Change: Mac OS X 10.6.4 compatibility.

You can download the release below:

Download (1.6MB)

If you have any questions, queries or have found a bug, don’t hesitate to send me an email:

daneharnett<at>gmail.com

If you like this plugin please donate via this link:

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

Talk Soon

Dane

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

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.

I’m very pleased to announce the pre-release of WideMail for Snow Leopard!

At this time WideMail is in public beta status (in other words: try it at your own risk, however it should be fairly stable).

This version is available for SNOW LEOPARD ONLY! It should work on 10.6.0, 10.6.1 & 10.6.2

Each new OS release will require an update to WideMail.

If you require WideMail for 10.5.x then you should use version 0.5.1

You can download WideMail for Snow Leopard here.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Dane Harnett & WideMail Team.

PS: Forward any bug reports to: daneharnett@gmail.com

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

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

Download WideMail-0.5.1.dmg.zip (1.2 MB)

Launch the “WideMail Installer” inside the Disk Image (DMG) to install/upgrade.

System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”

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If you have any questions, queries or have found a bug, don’t hesitate to send me an email:

daneharnett<at>gmail.com

If you like this plugin please donate via this link:

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