We are busy working on MailTags 3 with full Snow Leopard compatibility, a redesigned interface, and other new features.


However, it isn’t quite ready yet.


We realize that as you update your Mac to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, your email workflow and tagging system is important to maintain and support.


We are announcing MailTags Snow Leopard Compatibility Release available immediately.  This release will ensure basic compatibility so that you can continue using your MailTags workflow in OS X 10.6.



January 6, 2010

Download Now Interim release expires March 1, 2010http://www.indev.ca/Downloads/MailTagsSLCR5.dmg
Mail Tags Snow Leopard Compatibility Release 5 Mac OS X 10.6http://www.indev.ca/Downloads/MailTagsSLCR5.dmg

MailTags Snow Leopard Compatibility Releases are interim releases as we work on MailTags 3.  While we have taken precautions to ensure that this release is stable and free of problems, it should be considered Beta Software.


As Beta Software, it may adversely affect Mail’s stability and functionality. We recommend that you maintain regular backups of your email and avoid use in critical situations.


Is the Compatibility Release fully compatible with Snow Leopard Mail?

    NO.  As Mail added full Exchange 2007/2008 support, we haven’t been able to implement MailTags support for Exchange as of this release.  However MailTags should continue to work with Exchange accounts using the IMAP protocol.


    This interim release will provide Snow Leopard compatibility for all the features of MailTags 2.3 for Leopard.


When can I expect full compatibility?

    We are working to have MailTags 3 ready soon.  MailTags 3 will have full compatibility with Snow Leopard.  This “Compatibility Release” is an interim release and will expire March 1, 2010.


Where can I find more information about MailTags 3?

   We haven’t finalized the feature set for MailTags 3.  We will post more information closer to release.


Will MailTags 3 be a paid upgrade?

   YES.  While we haven’t decided upon upgrade pricing, MailTags 3 will be our first paid upgrade in 3 years of product development and support.

Customers who purchased MailTags 2 on or after August 28, 2009 will receive a free upgrade to MailTags 3.

This interim release is to provide temporary MailTags functionality on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) until MailTags 3.0 is released. This interim release will expire on March 1 2010.

The internals of MailTags has been completely reworked to provide better internal representation of data, more streamlined updating of IMAP messages and to lay the foundation for future versions.
You should notice slightly faster updating of IMAP messages.

  1. •Resolves issue where keywords where not displaying after revisiting a message (This related to incompatibility between Open Meta applications such as Tags.app, Leap and others. Consequently, keywords changed by an Open Meta application will not be read by MailTags. To change this behaviour, activate Open Meta Tags using the terminal Command:

                defaults write ca.indev.MailTags enableOpenMetaTags 1

  1. •Resolves issue where GMail Labels were being displayed as keywords by default. This new experimental feature is now an option in the preferences. With this on, MailTags will only read GMail labels (will not write GMail Labels). As before, MailTags cannot save its tag data to the GMail IMAP server.

  2. •Removes Computer Name from Preferences. This requirement had been unused for some time and will be replaced by the UUID (below).

  3. •Resolves stability issue when rebuilding Envelope Index after removing file (rebuilding complete Mail database)

  4. •Resolves issue with rules that employ the Clear All MailTags Rule.

  5. •MailTags now adds a universal unique id (uuid) header for the computer generating the tag. This information is devoid of any personal information and may be used for accepting or rejecting tags on messages received. The uuid for your computer is stored in the MailTags preferences and backed up in ~/Library/Mail/MailTagsUUID. The UUID should not synchronize if you have preferences synchronization turned on in Mobile me.

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