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Almost there!

November 08th, 2007 | Category: Cocoa,Mac OS X

Yesterday I got account editing working, and tonight’s effort sees sending working. It is still not possible to create new accounts, but that is something for another time. It’s almost midnight and I’m going to be woken up at some time around 3 or 4 am by the little one for a feed so I’d better go get some sleep while I can ;)

Once I’ve got account creation working then the plugin is pretty much done for Leopard :)

56 comments

56 Comments so far

  1. JJ November 8th, 2007 5:42 am

    GREAT!!

  2. MR November 8th, 2007 5:52 am

    WOOHOO!! Thank you for all your hard work!!!

  3. jephro November 8th, 2007 6:08 am

    We’re all hanging to your progress. Thanks for all this great work.

  4. Julie November 8th, 2007 6:13 am

    Will it then be available on SourceForge? Thank you for all your hard work. Microsoft should pay you since you’re keeping a lot of their loyal Hotmail customers for them!!!!

  5. Yves November 8th, 2007 6:19 am

    Hi Daniel,

    That’s realy great of you!!! Thnx a lot for making time to fix this for us all.

    By the way, if one day u don’t know what to do ,will probably never happen since u are a dad now, u can always try to find a way to add hotmail bddies into ichat with full functionality (without that jabber workaround) ;-)

    It’s so nice to keep on dreaming.

    Anyway, great work with your httpmail plugin!!!

    cheers – Yves

  6. Mason November 8th, 2007 7:58 am

    Thank you so much, I consider you a hero in my book.

  7. paul klinkhamer November 8th, 2007 9:12 am

    thank you so much!
    it’s a great tool and always used it on tiger!

    greetz from the netherlands

  8. Javier November 8th, 2007 9:18 am

    You should get some help with the plug in. Make it open source, that way you don’t kill yourself doing it. Anyway… Thanks for your hard work…. we all really appreciate it!!!

    Thanks!!!

  9. Be a Good Daughter November 8th, 2007 10:23 am

    Cool message.
    I think you’ll read our blog..
    See ya

  10. photek November 8th, 2007 10:34 am

    GREAT NEWS….!

  11. Caletz November 8th, 2007 10:44 am

    WOW! daniel thanks for working so hard on this!, we really! really appreciate it!! thanks :D bravo men!

  12. Mark Fletcher November 8th, 2007 11:05 am

    Daniel,

    Thank you for all your hard work!

  13. Ryan November 8th, 2007 11:16 am

    You, sir, are quite simply THE MAN. Thanks so much for your work on this. Let this and the other threads be ample evidence that people really REALLY appreciate independent developers and would much rather support you that those other characters.

    Like all the others- I can’t thank you enough. Sleep well.

  14. Dennis November 8th, 2007 11:53 am

    Great news !!
    Thanks ! :)

  15. daniel November 8th, 2007 12:29 pm

    Javier, the plugin has been open source since February 26th 2003. In that time I’ve had 1 code contribution :(
    I think the main problem is that there is no documentation for the internals of Mail so it takes quite a bit of effort just to get to a point where useful work can be done.

  16. HM November 8th, 2007 12:43 pm

    Great Work!

    I just got my mac, i’m really looking forward to youre plugin!

  17. Equinox November 8th, 2007 12:48 pm

    Hey, Daniel, you’re going really fast. And we all appreciate it! Can’t wait until it’s ready!
    Thanks.

    -Regards from New York City.

  18. Will November 8th, 2007 1:17 pm

    Wow, you’ve got on really quick.

    Looking forward for this update. This is the main reason why I havent upgraded yet!

  19. jon November 8th, 2007 2:25 pm

    good news indeed – your plugin has helped me more than you know – any chance the new plugin might work on newer hotmail accounts too? really though, thanks for your hard work.

  20. Josiah November 8th, 2007 2:25 pm

    Thanks again Daniel! This is one of those things I didn’t realize I had become so dependent on – until it was gone. So, I’m going to put my money where my mouth is this time.

  21. Wendy November 8th, 2007 4:03 pm

    Thanks Daniel.. you are awesome! My computer feels so incomplete without your valuable plugin. Keep up the great work.

  22. Paul November 8th, 2007 4:07 pm

    Thanks Daniel – consider httpmail (leopard) worthy of a small donation from me. I’ve moved most of my stuff over to Gmail now but it’s still nice to have the option of checking my hotmail from Mail.

  23. Manuel November 8th, 2007 4:16 pm

    Thanks…..
    We Need it Thanks a lot

  24. macintoad November 8th, 2007 5:39 pm

    Dan….you da man!!
    I’ve used your plug in for years now and would be lost without it for sure.
    Any way we can donate to help you out?

    Thanks again!!

  25. Nick November 9th, 2007 3:22 am

    Thank you.

  26. Michiel Ebberink November 9th, 2007 5:58 am

    Cool!

  27. Jimi Lee November 9th, 2007 7:31 am

    Set up a donate link at the end and I’m so there! If you read the note at source forge,there are people all over the world using this plugin,both individuals and companies.Let’s help these folks out and donate!
    Jimi Lee
    http://www.indieradiochattanooga.com

  28. gav November 10th, 2007 1:58 am

    oh cool mate, will you post it here? or on a download site? cheers for the hard work.

  29. Marque November 10th, 2007 3:02 pm

    Where is the download going to be from??

  30. Charles November 10th, 2007 7:45 pm

    FANTASTIC!

  31. Drew November 10th, 2007 8:07 pm

    Thanks!

  32. Ron November 11th, 2007 4:02 am

    Great work.

    I really appreciate that you are producing good software that fills a need, and at the same time performing your paternal duties – they both sound like labors of love

    regards

  33. Cubic November 11th, 2007 12:28 pm

    Thanks!

  34. Santiago November 11th, 2007 3:00 pm

    Thank you Daniel. You might get this question a lot but is there a plugin to use MSN with iChat and have file transfers and video chats?

  35. Luchio November 11th, 2007 5:04 pm

    Hey!! thanks so much for working on the plugin!! i’m a new mac user, just waiting for it!
    Thanks!!!!
    Salutes from Argentina

  36. Christian November 12th, 2007 1:23 am

    Thanks for creating such a valuable plugin. Are there any possibilities for an iPhone version!?

  37. matty November 12th, 2007 3:12 am

    thanks again for all your work from belgium !
    i do not understand why apple just doesn’t buy this thing from you and just ads it to mail themselves

  38. benjamin November 12th, 2007 5:23 am

    DANIEL ! DANIEL ! DANIEL !
    It looks like you’ve a stadium full of fans waiting for HTTPMAIL !!!

    Thanks you very much !!

  39. Antony November 12th, 2007 8:55 am

    I am almost about to go and use a PC…Please don’t make me do that…please fix this thing….please give the world a new HTTPmail plugin. Thanks from Italy

  40. Amit Arora November 12th, 2007 9:58 am

    I have just bought a MAC for the first time, leaving Windows behind. Fantastic machine but desperately missing your add-on! Having to use entourage for now…will expire in a week or so. Please don’t make me have to buy it just to keep my email working!!!!

    Thank you for your great effort

  41. Marque November 12th, 2007 11:07 am

    Everyone is saying thanks and such…. But where is the download… btw, thank you for working so hard at getting this set up for us… :)

  42. mikd November 13th, 2007 12:20 pm

    Just wondering what the update is with the httpmail plugin!?? dying to use it with leopard…

  43. Yves November 13th, 2007 12:33 pm

    I’m guessing that a lot of you guys are cheking this page 3 or 4 times a day. Daniel, I sincerely appreciate your efforts. I hope you’re getting enough sleep though. We’ll take the plugin when it’s ready.

  44. George November 13th, 2007 9:55 pm

    thanks for the effort daniel!!!!

  45. op November 14th, 2007 7:24 pm

    im getting this error when sending :\

    *** -[NSURL initWithString:relativeToURL:]: nil string parameter

  46. Nabil November 15th, 2007 7:36 am

    Installed fine, but the problem is… Every time I quit Mail and restart it, the Hotmail account disappears. Any suggestions… TIA.

  47. IO November 23rd, 2007 5:45 am

    Thanks for this daniel … awsome… but i am getting the same error message as op…”*** -[NSURL initWithString:relativeToURL:]: nil string parameter”. I’m not sure it isn’t something to do with certain ISP’s. Any ideas?

  48. igor December 2nd, 2007 6:32 pm

    thanks man fot your wotk, it just to work very well on tiger but know with leopard i got the following error ,
    *** -[NSURL initWithString:relativeToURL:]: nil string parameter .

  49. AKatz December 11th, 2007 6:23 pm

    I am getting the exact same error message when I try sending messages from my hotmail account: *** -[NSURL initWithString:relativeToURL:]: nil string parameter.

    Does anyone have a solution for this???

  50. Conifer December 23rd, 2007 3:29 pm

    I’m getting the same error and would love to figure out a solution. Maybe I just can’t use Mail right now. Not sure what my other choices are.

  51. Rishi December 25th, 2007 1:20 pm

    Hello all! I’ve found a workaround for the “*** -[NSURL initWithString:relativeToURL:]: nil string parameter” error. It’s pretty simple to get rid of the error. I’ve put up a post about the error at http://beyondteck.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-use-hotmail-with-apple-mail.html and this should hopefully fix the problem for everyone.

    Anyway, excellent plug-in Daniel! Thanks so much! Now I have no excuse to not check my Hotmail messages anymore.

  52. John Kirby December 26th, 2007 6:50 am

    Unfortunately, Rishi, I tried your workaround and although I’m not getting “*** -[NSURL initWithString:relativeToURL:]: nil string parameter”, I am unable to send. Mail.app just gives up with a timeout error.

  53. Daniel May 30th, 2008 2:46 am

    Hi Daniel

    I’ve installed your plug in and every time i try to get my mail i get this message:
    Could not connect to ‘Hotmail Account’
    Access to Hotmail via Outlook and Outlook Express now requires a subscription. Please sign up at http://join.msn.com/general/Email

    any ideas?

  54. johann January 9th, 2009 2:50 pm

    hi there!
    anz news about the “*** -[NSURL initWithString:relativeToURL:]: nil string parameter” problem. have the same problem with a brand new macbook pro 15″ and http plugin 1.53…

    tried also the work-around way but did not worked!

    please help!

    many thanks
    johann

  55. Roy February 20th, 2009 11:02 pm

    Johann, I had the same problem and was able to fix it by deleting the SMTP server listed (which was services.msn.com) in mail account preferences. Once I did that, http mail put in a different server name (oe.msn.msnmail.hotmail.com) and everything started to work. The specific steps are below:

    1) Go to Mail–>Preferences and choose the Accounts section

    2) Where it indicates the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) settings (As indicated above I had services.msn.com here)

    3) Bring up the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) pick list and choose Edit Server List…

    4) Select the hotmail or msn server from the list and click the minus “-” button to delete it.

    5) hit OK and close preferences, don’t forget to save the changes.

    I’m not sure why it stopped working or why it is now working, other than it wanted a different server name.

    Roy

  56. Geraint April 20th, 2009 3:56 pm

    I’ve been using the httpmail plugin 1.53 with leopard for a few months with few problems, but today I found I couldn’t send messages with either the usual outgoing server (which for me was “httpmail:[myemail]@hotmail.com”) or any other outgoing server I use with other accounts in mail… Then I started getting the “*** -[NSURL initWithString:relativeToURL:]: nil string parameter” error message…. then I started reading the blogs… then I tried the various tips, different Outgoing Mail Server addresses, etc., having to quit or force quit mail quite a few times in the process… then – a good few hours later – it just started working again, automatically restoring the original outgoing server address which I had deleted along the way (it still states “(offline)” after it but that doesn’t seem to be affecting sending anything)… so I’m not sure it was anything I did or could have done (I did send an error report when prompted at one stage), maybe just a timeout somewhere?

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