After 10 years of continued work on Attachment Tamer and over a year of, admittedly, not being able to keep up with Apple's sped up release cycle and increasing technical difficulties of Mail plug-in development, I decided to find a better way forward for both my customers and myself.
I am preparing a solution for handling attachments in current and future OS X releases, that would be up to the standard set by previous Attachment Tamer releases, in a partnership with well-known Mac developers. As the holiday season has slowed us down, I am going announce more details early in the new year.
Happy End of the Year,
-- Adam
PS: If you are repeatedly getting a message about Attachment Tamer being disabled on OS X Yosemite, you can use the latest pre-release installer to remove it.
OS X 10.9 Mavericks Support
Note: The following information has not been updated yet. Please see the announcement above.
You can get a pre-release build of Attachment Tamer that offers the most important Attachment Tamer functionality on OS X 10.9 Mavericks. A full-featured update is under way and targets the recently released OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
I understand how much Attachment Tamer is important to you, and if I could guarantee a final release date, I would have posted it here. See how to get to know about the final release (and any interim updates).
You can install, remove or update the pre-release version as usual. Additionally, it will automatically check for new updates daily.
Composing and sending attachments and images works exactly as you are used to ensuring compatibility with other email software. (Sending works correctly, images in sent messages on your computer, however, will be displayed in place.)
Advanced options work except for text encoding choice.
Sending from other apps directly, e.g. sharing from iPhoto, may send embedded images instead of regular attachments. (Use drag and drop to attach images from other apps, instead.)
Viewing options mostly do not have any effect: attachments will be displayed directly in incoming (or already sent) messages regardless your settings.
Pre-release builds are well-tested and I do not know of any bugs causing data loss, but crashes can occur and you should back up regularly nonetheless.
If you want to continue using Attachment Tamer for its outgoing mail-related features, you can download and install the pre-release build either before or after installing OS X Mavericks. See above what works.
Alternatively, if you want to wait for a regular release and you keep getting the message about Attachment Tamer having been disabled on OS X Mavericks, you can use Attachment Tamer's installer (regular or pre-release) to remove it. Your settings and license will be preserved until you install it again.
A pre-release version of Attachment Tamer will automatically check for updates daily. You can also follow @lokiware on Twitter. Registered users that have opted for receiving a newsletter will receive an email when the final release is ready. You can also always find up-to-date information on this web site.
The current pre-release builds are targeted at compatibility with OS X 10.9 Mavericks (and soon 10.10 Yosemite) and you can install them both before and after upgrading to Mavericks.
If you do not plan to upgrade to Mavericks or Yosemite, however, I recommend to keep the latest regular release installed (3.1.13) for the moment and wait for a regular update (not a pre-release build for OS X Mavericks).
If you encounter crashes or issues not covered above, please let me know: .
I will be especially grateful for clearly described problems with screenshots and Mail crash reports available from the Console application (found in /Applications/Utilities).
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