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Bare Bones relinquishes Mailsmith, now freeware

updated 07:30 pm EDT, Tue August 18, 2009

Mailsmith 2.2 released


Bare Bones on Tuesday transferred ownership of its flagship application, Mailsmith, to Stickshift, a company owned by Bare Bones founder and CEO, Rich Siegel. The owner stated that Stickshift has been created with the sole purpose of managing Mailsmith. The application is an Internet e-mail client that offers filtering, searching, editing and scripting capabilities. Along with the change of ownership, Stickshift has released v2.2 of Mailsmith. The software is now compatible with Snow Leopard, while the mail storage formatting has been changed.

Bare Bones is additionally discontinuing Super Get Info, a utility for file and folder information. New licenses will no longer be available for purchase, however v1.3.1 of the program will remain available for existing customers to download. Technical support for the application will be accessible until the end of 2009. Siegel suggests the Finder interface has become sophisticated enough that demand for the application has stopped.

Mailsmith requires Mac OS X 10.4 and is available for free from the Stickshift website.


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  1. MyRightEye

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    08/18, 10:37pm | report spam | Reply |

    Ack...

    Open Source it and let us make it kick butt please...

  1. leamanc

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    08/18, 10:45pm | report spam | Reply |

    Still no IMAP support

    So I still won't be using Mailsmith.

  1. techtrucker

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    08/19, 04:44am | report spam | Reply |

    Flagship

    I would not call Mailsmith their flagship application by any means, that title would have to apply to BBEdit.

    At any rate, I too considered using Mailsmith but the lack of IMAP support ruled it out.

    I'm hoping Yojimbo stays in their catalog, I make fairly extensive use of it.

  1. simdude

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    08/19, 08:38am | report spam | Reply |

    not surprised

    Back in the days of pop email, this was a nice client, but with all the great choices (many free) spending $80 for an email program that doesn't do IMAP and hasn't had an official release in years is crazy.

    As for Yojimbo, I would be careful here too. I agree developers should avoid releasing products so often the product suffers from feature bloat, Yojimbo has been as 1.5 for a long time and there ARE features many have asked for. The biggest is an iPhone app that syncs with Yojimbo desktop. Also, the single database approach means every hour your Time Machine backs up you make another copy of the Yojimbo database if it has changed. Evernote is just as good as Yojimbo, has iPhone, Web and Windows clients and, oh yeah, there's a free version.

    BBEdit is still a nice editor and I use it daily.

    BareBones has been around for a long time, but they really need another killer application.

  1. ggirton

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    08/19, 11:56am | report spam | Reply |

    complain complain

    BBEdit still doesn't suck.

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