[MlMt] Mailmate development status

[Stuart Haas]

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, info at techworkspro.com 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 <stuart at stuarthaas.com> 
>>> 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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