'Snail Mail' Open Sourced (Mac OS X Envelope App)

[Son of a Beach]

At last somebody has put up their hand to take over an old application I wrote that was discontinued a couple of years ago. 'Snail Mail' has now been open sourced on GitHub, which I hope will please all the users who were so upset when I told them it was being discontinued. I've no idea how long it will take them to get a new version released, but now anyone can check out the source code and build it themselves in the interim.

Snail Mail was the first envelope printing application for Mac OS X, integrating with the OS' bundled Address Book application in a number of ways, and was quite popular for a number of years. It was discontinued due to me having no time to maintain it any more, due to having kids and trying to run this web site, amongst other projects.

This is probably not of much interest to people here, but I'm excited and had to tell somebody.

In particular, I wanted the project to continue for the sake of the many users who depended on it (I'm aware of users in large companies such as a commercial airline manufacturer, and even a well known desktop operating system producer). It would be a shame if they could not continue to have the support they want and for their application to continue to evolve and improve.

[paulori]

Stumbled across your post here as this morning as I was using this still nifty little piece of software to print out the one of the few envelopes that I have to print each year. As I was doing it I wondered to myself what was happening with the program as I hadn't seen an update in aeons. Thus the google search... Not that I have needed an update as it still works absolutely perfectly. So felt I should say thanks to you for writing such an elegant piece of functional software that still remains functional and will be irreplaceable if it should ever fail. 5 stars from me.