Re: Plugin support for Apple's Mail application
Re: Plugin support for Apple's Mail application
- Subject: Re: Plugin support for Apple's Mail application
- From: "Mark Munz (DevList)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 09:19:07 -0500
I'd also recommend (to all that are annoyed by this) they go to
http://bugreporter.apple.com
and file an enhancement request for a public Apple Mail plug-in API.
I would love to seem them get a ton of requests for this. Perhaps
then, they'll make it a priority vs. something like remaking the
toolbar buttons (a pet peeve).
After 5 years, I think it's long overdue for Apple to provide some
basic public plug-in support for their de-facto Mail application.
Mark Munz
On May 20, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Robert Nicholson wrote:
I think Apple can reserve the right to change their API at anytime
and not just on a new OS release.
So it's not inconceivable that after a Software Update Mail
"plugins" could just stop working.
Apple tries to do what make sense but it's their API to change at
anytime.
On May 20, 2005, at 3:27 AM, Nicko van Someren wrote:
On 20 May 2005, at 8:58, Yann Bizeul wrote:
Yes, Apple Mail supports plugins but Apple did not release any
documentation for this, so you're alone with class-dump, but
depending what you are trying to do, it can be quite simple.
Take a look a GPGMail source code it will be helpfull.
...
Le 20 mai 05 à 09:23, Dhananjay Singh a écrit :
Is there any Plugin support for Apple's Mail application ? Can
we write our own plugin and attach to the mail application to
provide some customized features to the mail application.
Note that, since this is an undocumented API it is subject to
change without notice. As if to reinforce this, Apple did change
the API slightly between 10.2 and 10.3 and changed it quite a bit
more between 10.3 and 10.4. If you go this route (as companies
like PGP have done) then you need to commit yourself to doing
extensive testing and expect to have to update the code on every
new OS release.
Cheers,
Nicko
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