tag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:/discussions/feedback/2085-progress-on-update-for-sierra-os-x-mailappGPGTools: Discussion 2017-02-02T18:40:37Ztag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/415915182016-12-21T19:45:26Z2016-12-21T19:45:26ZProgress on Update for Sierra OS X Mail.app<div><p>Hey sscotti,</p>
<p>welcome to the GPGTools support platform.</p>
<p>We are actively working on 10.12 compatibility for GPGMail, our
plugin for Apple's Mail, and <em>hope</em> to have a first beta
ready soon. The rest of GPG Suite is already properly working on
macOS 10.12.</p>
<p>There's a <a href="https://gpgtools.tenderapp.com/kb/gpgmail-faq/gpgmail-no-longer-working-after-macos-update">
temporary workaround</a> available using GPGServices which you can
use to decrypt and encrypt messages.</p>
<p>We have connected this discussion to the ticket in our bug
tracker and you'll be notified as soon as we have news. Should this
ticket be closed in the meantime, it will be re-opened once the
ticket status changes.</p>
<p>If you’re seeing a message when you start Mail that an
incompatible plugin has been disabled, please follow these steps to
resolve that:</p>
<ul>
<li>shut down mail.app</li>
<li>open finder</li>
<li>navigate to /Library/Mail/Bundles or ~/Library/Mail/Bundles and
copy GPGMail.mailbundle to your desktop</li>
<li>now delete GPGMail.mailbundle from the original folder</li>
</ul>
<p>The reason why the adaption of GPGMail is taking so long, lies
in the intricacies of plugin development for Mail.app. Apple does
not provide any APIs for Mail.app. This means that they can change
everything internally whenever they want and they often do. If you
think they should provide an API, so plugins can be prevented from
breaking on a regular basis, please let them know via their
<a href="http://www.apple.com/feedback/mail.html">feedback
form</a>.</p>
<p>All the best,<br>
steve</p></div>Stevetag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/415915182016-12-21T19:51:45Z2016-12-21T19:51:45ZProgress on Update for Sierra OS X Mail.app<div><p>That is kind of a philosophical issue, open source vs.
proprietary development. What often happens is that the best open
source software projects get bought up, or adapted, into a
commercial project. Apple probably doesn't want to provide an API
because they want to protect their intellectual property and
assets, while still taking the best open source projects and
incorporating it into their own system, while still keeping it
closed.</p>
<p>I did find the workaround, although I did not try the second
part yet. The workaround just using the services menu seems to work
OK.</p>
<p>I do have something called MailButler that is an Apple Mail
plugin, so not sure how they were able to make that compatible with
Apple Mail.</p>
<p>Stephen D. Scotti, M.D.</p>
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complex the plugin, the more headache you'll have while adapting to
Apple's changes. In the end it's not so much a question of open or
closed source. As long as you have to reverse engineer to find out
which part does what, it is a time-consuming process and it's hard
to give timelines.</p></div>Stevetag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/415915182017-02-02T18:40:34Z2017-02-02T18:40:34ZProgress on Update for Sierra OS X Mail.app<div><p>GPG Suite 2017.1b2 has been released January 23rd, 2017. Find
the release on our website.</p></div>Steve