Thank you for the update. I’m grateful to hear you are still activly
working on MailMate and I look forward to future releases.
Stuart
On 27 Mar 2026, at 10:59, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
On 27 Mar 2026, at 14:52, [email protected] wrote:
My take on it: Still working on a new (2.0) major test release.OS
features to follow afterwards.
That's probably a good one line description. I'll expand it a bit
below for anyone wanting the long version.
On Mar 27, 2026, at 09:31, Stuart Haas <[email protected]>
wrote:
I've been a MailMate license holder and Development Support
subscriber for some time, and I've noticed there hasn't been a
development build or release since last October.
That is correct. This pause wasn't intentional, but back in October I
decided to do some low-level changes I had been postponing for a long
time. Some (imperfect like me) software developers can probably
recognize that some times you end up with sections of code that you
stop changing because it has become very hard to fix/add anything
without breaking something else. In this case, it was the code
handling the parsing/handling/generating/storing messages and its
various parts both when viewing and editing. Since this code is used
in a lot of places, this quickly evolved into changes to many parts of
MailMate and it was impossible to do this without (temporarily)
breaking features -- making it impossible to make test releases.
I'm using the current build of MailMate myself now meaning that most
things are working again, but I still have issues to fix and changes
to make before I can make another test release. I expect to release it
on this mailing list first because it's hard for me to test every
combination of the features of MailMate. I'll likely need a few users
to try it out before everyone else :)
Don't expect any fancy new features though. The recent changes have
mainly been about general robustness and preparations for future
changes/features.
My subscription is coming up for renewal, and I'm trying to
understand if active development is still underway. I'd hate for
this to be the end of the road — MailMate has been a great
product.
It's not the end of the road. I'll definitely continue to be working
full time in 2026 as I've also done since October (just without being
able to do releases along the way). The subscription mode has provided
me with a regular predictable income which is larger than before I
made the switch from regular license keys. It's still less than half
or even a third of what I would likely be making with a regular job,
but this has always been a labour of love ;)
Coincidentally, I am going on a short vacation for the next week, but
then I'll be back on working on completing the changes described
above.
Let me know if you have any additional questions. I do know I've not
been paying much attention to the mailing list recently, but I'll try
to look through it soon.
--
Benny
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