[MlMt] Cutting edge test users needed

[Steve Mayer]

Can verify that I don't see any issues yet on Tahoe 26.5 M1 MBP

Steve Mayer
smayer69 at me.com

On 27 May 2026, at 9:35, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 2026-05-27 at 10:08:30 UTC-0400 (Wed, 27 May 2026 16:08:30 +0200)
> Benny Kjær Nielsen <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> is rumored to have said:
>
>> Hi MailMate users,
>>
>> first, sorry about rarely replying to emails on the list (or off list 
>> for some users). I dug a deep hole while working on various low level 
>> parts of MailMate and I ended up with hundreds of things I had to get 
>> working again before it was realistic to release an update of 
>> MailMate that was actually useful to users. This also means that I've 
>> essentially been the only using the in-development version of 
>> MailMate for the past ~7 months and I'm a bit worried it's more buggy 
>> than I think it is since it's hard to test every corner of MailMate 
>> functionality.
>>
>> So, I need some users willing to try out a cutting edge revision of 
>> MailMate. Just assume that it's unstable and don't fetch it if you 
>> don't have the time to deal with any major issues, e.g., requiring 
>> re-synchronizing all of your email accounts. It hasn't happened to 
>> me, but you never know.
>>
>> There are no detailed release notes available, but changes affect 
>> most of the non-visual parts of MailMate. This includes but is far 
>> from limited to how MailMate fetches, parses, generates, caches, 
>> displays, deletes, and saves messages.
>>
>> I know some users watch the usual deployment folder on my server, but 
>> I wanted to limit this update to users actually reading this message 
>> and therefore the location is a bit different than usual. I've also 
>> bumped the version number for this cutting edge release to 3.0 
>> because it requires macOS 11 (previous requirement was 10.12). I've 
>> also bumped the revision number to r7000 since this makes it 
>> technically possible for me to also release updates to the 2.x branch 
>> if needed.
>>
>> Again, sorry about the lack of email responses in general. I'll see 
>> if I can get through some of the backlog tonight and/or tomorrow.
>>
>> Here's the link to the r7000+ archives folder on my server: 
>> https://updates.mailmate-app.com/sub/archives/
>>
>> Again, make sure you have the time needed to deal with any major 
>> issues. Keep a copy around of your current revision of MailMate.
>>
>> Use “Help > Send Feedback” to tell me about any issues you find.
>
> FWIW, it's not crashing immediately on a Sequoia M4 MBP
>
>
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