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<p dir="auto">Kee Hinckley wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">First of all, I just want to say that Benny is amazing. I wrote one of the first multimedia email applications on Unix a long time ago, and for many years I've considered doing a more modern one. MailMate makes that moot. It's an amazing application, and with the new HTML features coming down the road, it's even more so.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Sheesh, I remember Poste back in the day. Nice to see that both you and I have gravitated to the best Mail UA in OS X!</p>
<p dir="auto">In the late '80s, I was using Emacs and reading mail that way. My lisp proficiency sucked, but hey, at least I could bang around in my .emacs and customize a bunch of stuff.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Secondly, I want to say that I've put my money where my mouth is, and I'd like to encourage everyone else to do the same. I live in email, and I'm sure many of you do. Benny is making his living doing a really hard thing; writing an application that competes with something that's available for free. MailMate will always be a niche application targeted at hardcore mail users, and we need to support that. When MailMate started supporting the features I needed to use it at work I bought several extra licenses I didn't need. Because I need this application, and I need Benny to be able to make a good living supporting it. It was wonderful that I was able to hack MailMate to work with HTML mail before. It's even more wonderful that I don't have to anymore. If you find MailMate invaluable for your work—and I know many of you do—please contribute more.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I agree 1000%. I did not realize that we could do this. I'm in a similar mindset as you and I suspect that many of us who chose MailMate are. A tool that works with my style, that can be extended and customized... Priceless.</p>
<p dir="auto">I've made a number of requests to Benny... It'd be great if Light House allowed us to make a pledge associated with a feature enhancement request. That would allow Benny to take into account that component when prioritizing additions to MailMate. </p>
<p dir="auto">For myself, my priorities would be:</p>
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<li><p dir="auto">$30 - "makeNewViewerWindow:" binding that could be used in compound key bindings.</p></li>
<li><p dir="auto">$10 - "recenterLine:" to recenter the currently viewed message in a message list binding (works in normal Cocoa programs).</p></li>
<li><p dir="auto">$50 - Programmatic way to access messages (and message components such as Subject, Body, etc) using some API. Either Applescript (via the performCommand binding) or whatever. This would allow me to duplicate some of my workflows from Mail.app</p></li>
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<p dir="auto">The bounties shouldn't be the only factor that Benny should use. I would hate to see MM evolve into a purely "bourgeois" model where those with the most amount of money get a voice in feature requests.</p>
<p dir="auto">Great idea, Kee.</p>
<p dir="auto">BTW: My other favorite tool is Karabiner. Both Benny and Karabiner's author have a lot in common. </p>
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