mailMaker and pre-10.3
Bug problems with Mac OS X less than 10.3
After several long days of wrestling with bug in mailMaker which only appeared when the program was run on machines not using 10.3 it has been decided to drop support for 10.2 in mailMaker. It is a shame that mailMaker will not run on 10.2 (or 10.1) but I was left with no option (the program now puts up a warning window if you try to run it on a machine pre-10.3).
There were two problems in 10.2 that couldn’t really be nailed:
- Unicode support - Unicode (international text) support is a problem is somewhere in the ‘deep depths’ of the OS, hence mailMaker was unable to satisfactorily pass international text to the default mail programs (also, some of the mail programs have poor support for Unicode).
- Machine dependent - There is something going on with the configuration of some users machines under 10.2.8 that meant they did not work well with mailMaker. After much chasing it appeared that the problem may be with a component installed by Toast (and for the life of me I can not figure out why that should be the case), but, equally, there was also something else going on….
Therefore, it was decided to concentrate development efforts on mailMaker under 10.3.
