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MsgFiler Released!

November 15th, 2006

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I’m happy to announce the availability of MsgFiler, a plug-in for Apple Mail which quickly files emails into existing mailbox folders. MsgFiler’s fast searching means you just have to type a few characters to find the right mailbox. Move selected messages with a click or open a mailbox without having to navigate the mailbox folder pane. MsgFiler is optimized for keyboard-only usage, perfect for Apple Mail power users.

I’ve been testing MsgFiler for some time now, and it’s made cleaning up my Inbox and organizing my mail much easier. If you want to get a handle on organizing your emails, MsgFiler is the app for you! For a limited time, the app is available for a low introductory price of US$8. Payment is easy and fast through PayPal or Kagi!

You can check out MsgFiler in action by watching the short video tutorial below:

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MsgFiler is inspired by QuickFile, a plug-in for Mozilla Thunderbird by Paul Tomlin. Big thanks go out to Alex King for the initial encouragement to write MsgFiler and for his countless feedback and suggestions. Thanks also to Paul Guyot for his Cocoa tips.

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9 Responses to “MsgFiler Released!”

  1. Alex Says:
    November 15th, 2006 at 4:52 pm

    Great job Adam, I’ve posted my endorsement here:

    alexking.org/blog/2006/11/15/msgfiler

  2. Ben Says:
    November 16th, 2006 at 1:23 pm

    I’m tempted to buy a license right away, Adam. MsgFiler seems to be one of the few effective impulse buys for me, as was BuddyPop. However, I’m frustrated that it appears in the Dock when I activate it. I feel that plugins are better faceless applications. If you can’t make it load as a more integrated part of Mail, can you at least help me prevent it from showing up in the Dock? I’ve tried using the usual NSUIElement and LSUIElement tags in the bundle’s Info.plist but to no avail. What do you think?

  3. Adam Tow Says:
    November 16th, 2006 at 1:46 pm

    MsgFiler is a combination Mail Plug-in written in Cocoa/Obj-C and an AppleScript Studio Application. One of the long-term goals is to convert MsgFiler into a pure Cocoa app, which would make the integration with Apple Mail more seamless.

    In the meantime, you can modify the NSUIElement tag in the Info.plist of the MsgFiler application, not the mail plug-in bundle. It’s located in:

    ~/Library/Mail/Bundles/MsgFilerPlugIn.mailbundle/Contents/Resources/MsgFiler.app/Contents/Info.plist

  4. Mike Zulu Sierra Says:
    November 17th, 2006 at 5:15 am

    After watching your tutorial movie on your site I find MsgFiler cool enough to buy it, so I decided to give it a try. Unfortunatelly there is the following show stopper usability issue for me in it:

    I’m a Hungarian user, so I have a lot of mailboxes in Mail.app that contain special Hungarian accented characters (e.g. í,é,á,ű,ő,ú,ö,ü,ó and Í,É,Á,Ű,Ő,Ú,Ö,Ü,Ó - I hope these Unicode characters will appear correctly in the comments after posting) in their names. MsgFiler seems to be problematic to find mailbox names that contain any of these characters.

    If you have a chance try to make these two mailboxes for testing purpose:
    - Szabó
    - Széki

    [1] When typing “Szabó” or “Széki” into the search field of the MsgFiler, there will be no matches at all.

    [2] When the accented character is on the end of the word, it can be found by typing the unaccented version into the search field. So, when you type “Szabo”, the “Szabó” mailbox will be appear on mailbox list in the MsgFiler’s window.

    [3] When the accented character is in the middle of the word, it can’t be found via typing the unaccented version of character into the search field. So, when you type “Szeki” or “Sze”, the “Széki” mailbox won’t appear in the results window.

    I don’t know, maybe this is a result of MsgFiler being a Cocoa/Obj-C and AppleScript Studio application. (AppleScript is well known about its buggyness regarding Unicode character handling.) Maybe it is not related to this and you can fix this problem in one of your next releases somehow.

    If you can fix this issue, then I will buy your plugin at once. But until then unfortunately it is useless for me.

  5. Adam Tow Says:
    November 17th, 2006 at 8:28 am

    Mike - Thanks for the heads-up on this issue. I’ll be taking a look at it!

  6. Alan Says:
    November 17th, 2006 at 3:18 pm

    Can I change the shortcut key?

  7. david Says:
    November 18th, 2006 at 5:46 am

    Hi Adam - this looks great, but I’m one of those people getting the -1700 error message. I’m on a MacBook, not a Pro.

  8. Robert Ference Says:
    November 18th, 2006 at 8:18 am

    Nice App.

    Maybe you would consider enhancing along these lines:
    Its built on the concept we developed in EOS (later IBM PROFS) when I worked at Amoco (now BP). The concept allows for a FC, or File Copy, to be entered in the email address pane. If nothing entered it defaults to the Sent mail folder. This FC concept is especially useful if I’m working on a number of projects with different communities of interest.
    It obviates the extra step of filing out going correspondence by processing the sent mail folder.

    There some other behaviours of FC, which I you’re interested, I can share. Look forward to hearing from you.

  9. Neil Says:
    November 18th, 2006 at 1:26 pm

    Bad news - for some reason installing MsgFiler blows away my MailTags preferences. I’ve reproduced this on three machines.

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