Sparrow Beta 7

It’s Christmas time and we are both proud and glad to offer you Sparrow Beta 7. Our little bird had a serious face lift and performance boost.

Feature

• Progress Bar
• Gmail shortcuts 
• Quick labeling
• Quick Labeling and Archiving
• Smart recipient auto-complete
• ‘Download message on demand’ option
• Auto-restart on Menu Bar/Dock settings
• Quicklook in the compose window
• Horizontal scrollbar
• Plain text option

Shortcuts

• ⌘-L Quick labelling
• ⇧-⌘-L Quick labeling & Archiving
• ⌘-K  to insert link in the compose window

General improvements

• Message list scroll performance
• Category/account switch performance
• Auto-detect SMTP port failures 

UI

• New compose window design
• New conversation view design
• Message list re-design

Bug fix

• Printing bug
• ⌘↵ shortcut fix
• Search crash
• Sync issues
• Forwarded message not shown
• Dragging selection scroll
• Labels randomly turns black
• Encoding issues
• Empty message bug
• URL not converted to link
• Scattered space
• And a gazillion other bugs 

‘Download on demand’ in the Advanced Preference Panel will allow Gmail users with large mailboxes to limit the synchronization between Sparrow and their account.

Sparrow is also becoming Mac AppStore compliant and resource location have been changed. You will now find your mail database in LIbrary/ApplicationSupport/Sparrow and your preferences file in Library/Preferences named com.sparrowmailapp.sparrow.plist.

We are also testing advertising in this version of Sparrow. Of course, you’ll be able to turn the ads on & off at your convenience in the Preferences Advanced panel by clicking on ‘Disable Ads’.

Grab your Sparrow Beta 7 copy here or simply ‘Check for update’. 

Merry Christmas to you all and happy new year!

Sparrow Beta 6

Sparrow is faster than ever with IMAP-IDLE!

As we have improved performance on many levels, a full new sync will be done on all your mail accounts connected to Sparrow. During this first sync, Sparrow won’t be in IMAP-Idle mode. It will become active once the first sync is completed.

Features:

• IMAP Idle 
• Report Spam 
• ‘Add label’ from the right pane 
• Notifications when pane is open ‘à la Gmail’ 
• Inserting new line in reply 
• Creating links 
• Drag & Drop attachments made right

Shortcuts:

• ⌘-⌫ to delete
• ⌫ to archive 
• ⌘-A is back! 
• ⇧-⌘-J to mark as Spam 
• Configurable HotKeys in Preferences (new mail & Sparrow window)

General improvements:

• Search performance 
• Switching category/accounts performance 
• Message loading performance 
• Higher level for sounds

UI:

• Message list redesign 
• ToolBar icon hover 
• Cell selection fade-in has been deleted Menu layout

Bug fix:

• Permanent loading issue 
• Alias name editing 
• Label assignment 
• Sync between all windows 
• Application won’t stay minimized 
• Focus problem when switching apps 
• Search crash 
• Quicklook crash 
• Label with [Gmail]/ prefix 
• Text encoding (Chinese, Cyrillic) 
• Attachments in replies
• And many, many more that we won’t list here.

We also have improved many of inconsistent behaviors that have been reported by our remarkable community of users. Once again, we would like to thank all of you who are helping us refining Sparrow.

Check for updates of download Sparrow Beta 6 here.