Re: [MlMt] Mailmate development status
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 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 ___ mailmate mailing list Unsubscribe: https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate ___ mailmate mailing list Unsubscribe: https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Mailmate development status
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 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 ___ mailmate mailing list Unsubscribe: https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Mailmate development status
Thanks. That’s good to know. If that’s the case, I’ll keep my subscription active. Updates from Benny would be welcome. On 27 Mar 2026, at 9:52, [email protected] wrote: I asked the Dev directly recently in Feedback. Don’t know if Benny would want his full explanation posted here (he can certainly speak for himself, here!). If Benny gives me the OK, I’ll forward his response here. I thought it enlightening. My take on it: Still working on a new (2.0) major test release.OS features to follow afterwards. Henry - - Please excuse the tttapping errors... Sent from my iPhone Henry Seiden Techworks Pro On Mar 27, 2026, at 09:31, Stuart Haas wrote: Hi — 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. 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. Does anyone have any insight into the current status? Thanks, Stuart ___ mailmate mailing list Unsubscribe: https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate ___ mailmate mailing list Unsubscribe: https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate ___ mailmate mailing list Unsubscribe: https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Mailmate development status
I asked the Dev directly recently in Feedback. Don’t know if Benny would want his full explanation posted here (he can certainly speak for himself, here!). If Benny gives me the OK, I’ll forward his response here. I thought it enlightening. My take on it: Still working on a new (2.0) major test release.OS features to follow afterwards. Henry - - Please excuse the tttapping errors... Sent from my iPhone Henry Seiden Techworks Pro > On Mar 27, 2026, at 09:31, Stuart Haas wrote: > > Hi — > > 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. > > 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. > > Does anyone have any insight into the current status? > > Thanks, > > Stuart > ___ > mailmate mailing list > Unsubscribe: https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate ___ mailmate mailing list Unsubscribe: https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
