2023-06-14 20:02:21
With macOS Monterey, Apple warned: plug-ins in Mail were going to disappear ” in a future version of macOS “. Two years later, with Sonoma arriving, it’s done, the old extensions are no longer supported by the OS at all. Developers must now offer extensions developed with the framework MailKitas the confirmed developer Riley Testut, developer of AltStore.
For him, this is a real problem because his store of alternative apps is installed on an iPhone or iPad… via a Mail plug-in for macOS (yes, it’s sioux, but it works). Adam Tow, plugin developer MsgFiler which allows you to manage your mailbox with the keyboard, deplore that Apple hasn’t paid much attention to the framework during the last two WWDCs.
« Lack of a viable solution to replace Mail’s plug-in feature in Sonoma means macOS 14 will disappoint Mail users “, he writes. Adam hopes that ” macOS 15 will bring a complete rewrite of the application [Mail] with improved MailKit “. But it will be necessary to wait more than a year before finding out. Maybe Apple can take inspiration from MsgFilter and integrate the functions of the plug-in!
The future of MsgFilter is in any case very dark: when the final version of Sonoma is released, ie during the fall, the plug-in will be removed from the Mac App Store.
MailKit does not start from a bad intention. The framework allows four types of extensions: writing (the extensions act on the content), action (sorting and processing of mail), content blocking and security (to sign and decrypt incoming and outgoing mail). An extension can even do several things at the same time.
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