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Sparrow Mail Updated To Support Lion

Sparrow Mail Updated To Support Lion

Popular upstart OS X mail app, Sparrow, has been updated with support for OS X Lion. Sparrow took a leaf out of the book of Twitter and brought a micro design to email. Most noticeable to is a new sidebar, empty trash option, and send & archive options.

Sparrow 1.3.1 is available to purchase from the Mac App Store for $9.99.

New features:

Extended Sidebar: directly access all your label & folders in the sidebar
Send & Archive: one of the coolest Gmail feature now available for all IMAP accounts
Drag and Drop: select any message and simply drag and drop it to other apps and your desktop
Hide sidebar: keep it minimal and hide your sidebar for a streamlined experience. Shift-Cmd-M or a lateral three finger swipe in the sidebar will do the trick.
View mail source
Empty trash’ button

For Lion OS X users:

Bounce everywhere: in the sidebar, in the message list and in the conversation view. Lion goodness all over!
Full screen mode
Launch animation

Improvements:

All animations have been rewritten from the ground up.
Sidebar animations: account and category switching is faster and smoother
Message list: we made the scroll more fl.uid and natural
Window animations: we killed all window animations to make Sparrow faster and simpler
Sidebar scrollbar: even if it has always been possible to scroll there, we made it obvious.
Priority inbox behavior: now shows all Priority mails of the inbox regardless of the fact that they’ve been read

Compatibility:

Omnifocus: drag a mail in the app to create a new task
Things: drag a mail on the dock icon to create a new task

Back-end:

Yahoo compatibility
DAV Mail compatibility
MBox mail compatibility

and of course, hundreds of small bugs have been resolved:

Fix crash issue on 1.3
Fix formatting issue on 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
Lotus Domino compatibility
Bug in sidebar Label menu