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This API could also be ported to MobileMail.app, which, until now, hasn’t had any extensibility (except maybe for jailbreaking, but even then, I don’t think Mail was a common target for jailbreakers looking to tweak the system).Yet again, it was another late, sleepless night in Atlanta. We’ll probably see more mail extensions as a result of this, while previously, it was only worth the effort to devs who were absolutely serious about email extensibility. Now we have a stable API guaranteed not to break on point releases and that will likely be stable across multiple major releases. Every time Mail.app got updated, these bundles needed to get updated, too, and, until they did, the bundles wouldn’t work. Previously, mail bundles would break between point releases. Most of the original team is probably retired by now.īut this is also a change that needed to occur. You do realize that Mail.app is a direct continuation of the NeXTStep Mail.app, yes? Which means that it’s nearly 40 years old. Same thing, different day, Apple can never find the original team that built a program, so they have to rebuild it from the ground up! lol MacOS Monterey is available now in beta for developers, with a public beta to follow in July. In the WWDC session, Apple indicated that older Mail app plug-ins will stop functioning in an unspecified future macOS release. The extensions can be built into existing Mac apps and can also be distributed through the Mac App Store, according to a WWDC session about MailKit, which is available on macOS only and not iOS or iPadOS. Xcode 13, available in beta, includes a template for developers looking to create Mail app extensions on the Mac. Message Security: Extensions that sign, encrypt, and decrypt emails when sending and receiving mail, with signed and encrypted icons below emails.Content Blocking: Extensions that serve as WebKit content blockers for emails based on specific criteria in an email's HTML code.

Actions: Extensions that apply custom rules to incoming emails, such as an email being color coded, moved to a separate inbox, marked as read, or flagged.Compose: Extensions that provide new workflows when composing emails.There will be four main categories of Mail app extensions, according to Apple: As part of WWDC this week, Apple introduced a new MailKit framework for macOS Monterey that enables developers to create Mail app extensions that block content, perform message and composing actions, and help with security.
