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Mailsmith - 2.1.5

Email client with filtering, searching, scripting tools

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All Time:	(3.4)
This Version:	(2.3)
Current Version:	2.1.5
Release Date:	2005-03-09
License:	Update
Downloads (this version):	5,222
Downloads (all versions):	25,503
Price:	$99.00

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Product Description:

Mailsmith is an Internet email client for the Macintosh which offers unparalleled filtering, searching, editing and scripting capabilities. Mailsmith breaks new ground in making powerful email-handling capabilities accessible to users of all levels.

What's new in this version:

There is a new switch in the "Advanced" tab for email accounts: "Allow Clear Text SMTP Authentication". This option controls whether Mailsmith is allowed to employ SMTP authentication methods that involve sending your password to the server unencrypted (as "clear text"). If it's turned on (which is the default for accounts created with previous versions of Mailsmith), then Mailsmith will continue to operate as before. If it's turned off (the default for newly created accounts), then Mailsmith will not attempt to use the "LOGIN" or "PLAIN" SMTP authentication methods, even if the server supports them, because doing so would allow the transmission of your SMTP password over an unsecured channel. Note that if "Require SSL for SMTP" is turned on, the connection to the server is by definition secure, so it's safe to use the clear-text SMTP authentication methods. Thus, if you turn on "Require SSL for SMTP", then "Allow Clear Text SMTP Authentication" is turned on as well.
Some SMTP servers advertise that they support CRAM-MD5 authentication, but then return an error (and an incorrect one at that) when Mailsmith attempts to authenticate using CRAM-MD5. To work around this, Mailsmith will ignore a CRAM-MD5 authentication failure if "Allow Clear Text SMTP Authentication" is turned on and the server advertises that it supports PLAIN or LOGIN authentication.
Mailsmith no longer explicitly flushes databases when notifying of newly arrived mail. (If "Leave Mail on Server" is turned off, messages are explicitly written to disk anyway.) This eliminates the burst of disk activity which occurred right before new-mail notification.
Fixed case in which some drawing code was inappropriately called from a background thread, which typically caused a crash.
Fixed a bug in which an individual mail database file larger than 1GB was subject to data corruption.
After successfully negotiating a secure connection using STARTTLS, Mailsmith will repeat the server handshake. This corrects a problem when working with servers that enforce the handshake-after-STARTTLS requirement, such as the MailHop relay service.
Mailsmith now correctly decodes AppleDouble enclosures sent by Apple Mail in which the resource fork and metadata are encoded as quoted-printable. (Why they did that is beyond me, since Base64 is perfectly serviceable, but there you have it.)

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2.2 or higher

Feedback Summary:

This Version:
Overall Rating:	(2.3)	Features:	(3.4)	Support:	(2.8)
Ease of Use:	(2.0)	Quality / Stability:	(3.0)	Price:	(2.0)

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v2.1.5 (2005-03-09) - Version: 2.1.5, 4/15/2008 07:04AM PST

Blueberry

Is this product still alive?

Are you freakin kidding - Version: 2.1.5, 3/30/2007 07:53PM PST

(0 of 2 users found this comment useful)

Ancient_Boii_Tribe

This has to be some kind of April fools joke. You want 99.00 for this. You want money for this. You would have to pay me more then that to force me to use it. This has got the be the worst mail app I've ever tried. You can't even put your different email account mailboxes to the left. This is so user unfriendly. I'm just shocked, I just don't get it. A friend of mine made the mistake of buying this wart and ended up giving it to me for free. I tossed it after fighting with it and reading for 2 hours. I just kept thinking that I'm overlooking something, but no, it's a turd. The only thing I liked about this piece of crap was the sound it make when I ran it through AppZapper to gut it from my computer. This app made me feel ill, I feel like I'm going to blow chunks. Hrrrrrr Hrrrrrrr Hrrrrrrr wahhhhhhhh

Hmm... Accroding to what I read and experienced... - Version: 2.1.5, 10/1/2006 12:13PM PST

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brsmithjr

Buggy software, arrogant developer, no Intel binary and $99. to boot.

Maybe this guy should open up a hotdog stand instead of developing software...