Wow - it has been a great year so far! Now some vacation, family, and "offline" time is really needed. I'll be on vacation for two weeks and will be back on July, 21.
Destination: Corsica (where the Mailplane project started...)

If you experience any Mailplane problems, please go to the FAQ page, check for known problems, or search the Google group. The are also known Gmail issues, they are listed on this page.
Enjoy your summer, too!

Mailplane just got reviewed on Bright Hub! It's a great and very thorough review and describes what Mailplane is and what it isn't.



Here is what Bill writes about Security and Privacy:
"There are settings in each Gmail account's preference panel to control access to each individual Gmail account, by saving the Gmail account password to the Mac keychain and allowing automatic login as needed. [See Image 3] Of course, this is best used on a Mac that has password-protected user accounts. 

Mailplane also provides a setting in each Gmail account that enables https support. While this can affect the application's overall performance, turning on https is a good idea for anyone who's using Mailplane on a local area network."

Check out the full article, it is a great read!

New and Improved:

• French translation by Michel Tribet
• German translation by Patrick Scheips
• Norwegian (Bokmål) translation by Vidar Ramdal
• Nested groups are now supported when Inserting email addresses from the Mac OS X address book (Cmd-Opt-A)
• Account drawer toolbar item added to default toolbar

Bugfixes:

• iPhoto plugin didn't work anymore, bug was introduced by build 758
• Unread message counter problem when using a google.com account. (Counter didn't go to zero).

Many users would like to see a custom image in Mailplane instead of the Gmail "beta" logo.
If you use Google Apps for your domain, Google provides this feature. The logo can be uploaded and set in your "Manage domain->Domain Settings->Appearance":

If you use a "normal" Gmail account (@gmail.com), a custom stylesheet can do the trick as Mailplane supports such a stylesheet. It can be set in your Tweak UI preferences.
Here is an example CSS file:

.zYsCRb {background:transparent url(http://mailplaneapp.com/downloads/logo-custom.gif) !important; }

Upload a correctly sized image (143 x 59 pixels) to any webserver and replace the URL in the example with the URL to your logo. Important: The picture will be shown in all account you use.

This is the fourth beta release, it contains many small improvements and bug fixes.

New and improved:

• New: Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-R keyboard shortcut to reload the main window (View->Reload page)
• Improved: Download destination path is remembered when Ask for Download destination is enabled
• Improved: Gmail Sign out toggles the account drawer if you have more than one account
• Ignore RSS feed for @google.com domain
• Rename iMedia to Media; "Insert Email" to Email
• Main window: New default toolbar with less items
• Main window/document window: attachment message now wraps text if needed
• New and cleaner toolbar default setting

Bugfixes:

• The Mail PDF with Mailplane PDF service wasn't installed for Mailplane 2.0 beta users.
• The Gmail keyboard shortcut setting detector didn't work for Gmail 2.
• Archive did remove label when a label was browsed.

• The Gmail->More items opened in Mailplane instead of the preferred browser
• Window moves to another location when closing drawer
• Gmail 2: Reply/Reply All/Forward were enabled when compose a new message

SVM Mac is the biggest and most important French Mac magazine, and Mailplane has been tested on page 92 in the current June issue (#206).

Best of all, Mailplane gets five mice - the max! According to the editors, Mailplane is "Indispensable" for Gmail Mac users. Plus: The magazine comes with a CD which contains Mailplane.

Without Michel Tribet's excellent French application translation, Mailplane wouldn't have appeared in SVN Mac... thanks Michel!

Thanks to Google, Gmail loads much faster! Account switching, new message windows, and initial startup are much zippier!

Check out this article for more information.

Gmail is pushing out a new Gmail 2 version, this may lead to these problems - which are fixed in beta 3:

• external links and downloads do not work
• The Mail menu doesn't work correctly
• compose new in separate window doesn't work

New: "Enable Google Talk Window" preference

Nearly all accounts are now Gmail 2, and you get Gtalk right in your inbox sidebar. As the Google Talk window was created for Gmail 1 when the sidebar didn't have Google Talk support, there is now a preference to enable/disable Google Talk support.

Recommendation:
If you use Gmail 2, disable the setting.
If you prefer Gmail 1, enable it.



Updated: Safari extensions check

Some users don't experience the crashes, even with Safari Ad block and SafariBlock installed. There is a new button on the alert, to stop all warnings about it.

Improved: Apply/Remove label for Star

Mailplane shows a new "Star" label in the "Apply/Remove" label panel.


Other Improvements and bugfixes:

• Bugfix: Some Google Apps accounts using http experienced authentication problems
• Bugfix: Gmail keyboard shortcut stopped working after Cmd-L
• Bugfix: When clicking the reply box, characters were interpreted instead of entered.
• Bugfix: Select-All now works in a "Show Original" window
• Bugfix: "Show Original" window title

I am very excited about the latest Mailplane release: 2.0 Beta! (press release).
Important: Mailplane 2.0 will be a FREE upgrade for all registered users!
For the full list of new features and improvements please check out this page.