Dec 24, 2025 • Benny Kjær Nielsen It’s now slightly more than a year ago that the new license key model for MailMate was announced. You can follow the link if you want to know more about why I decided to make this change. In this post I’ll
Jul 2, 2025 • Benny Kjær Nielsen Since the release of the MailMate 2.0 beta last December, multiple betas have followed. The most recent one was released today. You’ll get them automatically if you configure it in the Software Update settin…
Jul 1, 2025 • Benny Kjær Nielsen If you are surprised by the sudden appearance of a “Free Mode” button in the upper right corner of the main MailMate window then you probably missed this blog post. In short, a new pricing model was announce…
Jan 8, 2025 • Benny Kjær Nielsen Just like MailMate is an alternative to the macOS Mail app, BusyContacts is an alternative to the macOS Contacts app. One of its popular features is that it can show related emails to the currently selected
Dec 22, 2024 • Benny Kjær Nielsen It has been a long time since the latest beta release of MailMate, but that changes today. The beta has also had its version number bumped to 2.0 (r6067) — this is both to indicate that it is a major upgrad…
Dec 22, 2024 • Benny Kjær Nielsen I’m back! Or to be more precise, the homepage is back. Almost two years since the previous blog post and more than 4 years since the latest public release. I’ve been very quiet here, but I’ve actually been
Jan 26, 2023 • Benny Kjær Nielsen For Big Sur (macOS 11.x), Monterey (macOS 12.x), and Ventura (macOS 13.x), it is strongly recommended to use the latest beta release of MailMate, but it should also work for users on macOS 10.12-10.15. Here…
Apr 30, 2021 • Benny Kjær Nielsen I have previously recommended that Big Sur users upgrade to a test release of MailMate since it fixes various Big Sur related issues. Some Big Sur users are also the lucky owners of an M1-based computer (Ap…
Dec 23, 2020 • Benny Kjær Nielsen The current public release of MailMate (r5673) mostly works on the latest macOS release (Big Sur). One of the known issues is that printing doesn’t work at all. Apparently, this is used quite a lot by MailM…
Aug 28, 2020 • Benny Kjær Nielsen The short version of this blog post: If you rely on using S/MIME in MailMate then make sure you have updated to version 1.13.2 (or later). It has been quite a while since MailMate had a public update (Decem…
Dec 5, 2019 • Benny Kjær Nielsen Version 1.13.1 of MailMate is a maintenance release which includes various important fixes for Catalina (macOS 10.15). A detailed list of the changes and fixes since the latest public release can be found in…
May 27, 2019 • Benny Kjær Nielsen This is the first public release of MailMate with a so-called “hardened runtime”. It is also the first release “notarized” by Apple. In short, this means that this and every future release of MailMate has b…