New Translations for Mail.app Attachment Scanner Plugin
With all of the travel I’ve been doing lately, I haven’t had a chance to update the Mail.app Attachment Scanner Plugin with its new translation support. Thanks to the help of several generous translators, the plugin will now look for English and French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish words to indicate a possibly missing attachment, depending on the Mac OS X language preference.
Thank you so much to all of the people who have made this support possible!
Helmut Reininger Said,
May 26, 2006 @ 8:12 am BST
Hello!
Any chance that we’re going to see a universal binary of this soon? If you need someone with an Intel iMac to help you, feel free to send me an email.
Best regards,
Helmut
James Eagan Said,
May 26, 2006 @ 1:10 pm BST
Helmut: The hangup right now is two-fold: I don’t have an Intel Mac, and PyObjC and Python still have a few bugs when it comes to Universal builds. As you point out, the first obstacle is easily overcome thanks to so many generous folks like you. But with the second hang-up, it will probably be easier to wait another month or so for the kinks to be worked out (and for me to get an Intel Mac!).
I’ll be sure and put a notice up on this blog when I get things working on an Intel Mac!
James
olivier Said,
August 22, 2006 @ 8:45 am BST
great great great idea for a plug-in, BUT…
the plugin should just check the 1st level text, not the quoted text from previous messages, otherwise if:
1/ you’re replying to a message that was referring to an attachment
2/ the other guy has a legal footer saying “This message and any attachments are confidential”
the pop-up still asks for an attachment and it becomes pretty annoying…
just in case you have planned to update
James Eagan Said,
August 22, 2006 @ 10:27 am BST
Hi olivier,
Thanks for the comment. That’s a known problem that I’m not sure how to resolve. I already ignore text quoted in the standard fashion for standard, plaintext emails, where the lines start with a “>”. But there doesn’t seem to be a consistent way to quote text in HTML formatted emails, so if you’re sending mail in HTML format, then the plugin won’t be able to ignore the original email.
If you (or anyone else) has any suggestions for how to address that, please let me know!