The lonesome death of attachments

Sparrow 1.4 is a special release for us. We took the time to improve our little bird both in terms of UI and performance. You should notice right away that Sparrow is now faster than ever.

It’s also been a while we wanted to integrate CloudApp. We use it daily at Sparrow and we thought it would make a lot of sense to get it into Sparrow.

A video is worth a thousand words so have a look below to see how it can make you more efficient and introduce a little magic in your mail experience:

All you have to do is activate the option in Sparrow Preferences and attachments should never be a problem again.

Of course, that’s not all. We also added:

• A reversed thread ordering like in Gmail (older messages on top)

• Pull-to-refresh

and we have made some improvement on the UI:

• Default image in conversation view when no message or multiple message are selected
• Window resize issue
• Default compose window size
• Message list default size is kept when modifying the sidebar state
• Sidebar animations when showing / hiding
• Default minimal size of windows

Important changes were also made under the hood, with a brand new draft management system which makes Sparrow:

• Send mail faster
• Behave better with bad network/ offline behavior
• Synchronize faster

Bug fixes:

• Zoho compatibility
• Lotus Domino compatibility
• Free compatibility
• Dovecot server 
• Crash on Send & Archive and various crashes
• Animation bug when unminimizing Sparrow from the Menu bar icon
• Hanging issue on Lion
• Erased space in signature
• ‘Not Spam’ option in the Spam folder

Open the Mac App Store to update your Sparrow and make the most of this new features or simply check for update.

If you haven’t Sparrow already, you can get it here.

Sparrow 1.3.2 is now available on the Mac App Store 

This new release includes:

- Drag and drop directly in your label & folders in the extended sidebar

- Shortmail support: character counter in compose window. We really like the idea of Shortmail and felt we had to integrate it in Sparrow. 

- Focus on Compose window in full screen mode

- New conversation view design: buttons are gone and the whole view is more minimalist. The quick reply has been slightly redesigned too.

- Top bar gradient re-design

- New default avatars for incoming mails

Bug fix:

- Transparent text issue in message composer

- Window and sidebar size memory issue

- Alt-L Polish character issue

- Fixed Esc key behavior in fullscreen

- Deminimized animation fixed

- Shift-Cmd-2 in Extended sidebar Unified Inbox

- Copy and paste issue in compose window

- Inline attachments resize issue

- Improved memory usage

- Fixed various crashes

Sparrow 1.3.1 has been approved by Apple at the speed of light and should be available to all of you now on the Mac App Store.

We would like to thank Apple for their support and reactivity in yesterday’s special circumstances.

If you had the licensed version of Sparrow, you are either already playing around with Sparrow 1.3.1 or should be able to update.

If you had the Mac App Store version, checking the update section should allow you to get Sparrow 1.3.1. This new version of Sparrow comes with some improvements and fixes the following issues:

• Crash issue of 1.3
• Formatting issue of 1.3 

• Cmd-L and Shift-Cmd-L bug in Unified Inbox for Google accounts
• Lost text when replying too fast
• Reply animation: the reply window now matches the location and size of the reading window
• Default window size is now kept when quitting and relaunching the application
• Various bugs on window resizing (extended sidebar, hiding sidebar…)
• Lotus Domino compatibility
• Bug in sidebar Label menu

And it adds 2 new Lion feature:

• Full screen mode
• Launch animation

Sparrow 1.1.2 is still in review at Apple.

We submitted the update on April the 4th. Since, Sparrow 1.1.2 has been rejected twice. On the 15th of April, we requested an appeal on iTunes Connect and are now waiting for Apple’s answer.

The application was rejected because Apple reviewers couldn’t add the test accounts we provided. After testing on our side, we were not able to reproduce the issue and came to the conclusion that Sparrow was being tested offline or behind a firewall (which could explain why Sparrow was unable to connect to any mail account).

We kindly asked several times for log protocol to pinpoint the exact reason and make a consistent answer to the review team but had no luck. We had no other choice than to ask for an Appeal.  

Sparrow 1.1.2 fixes the following issues:

• Duplication in Sent mailbox on Exchange servers
• Selection in folder mapping 
• Crash on sync
• Keychain conflict 
• “New message” option has been added to right-click on Dock icon 

We’ve been working hard on Sparrow 1.2 for some weeks now. Most of what we’re doing has to be kept secret but the Universal Inbox will be there along with lots of improvements and cool new features.

Thanks for your patience and feedback.