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Have 'MailTrackerBlocker' display its own version number... #73

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Mfhejjas opened this issue Mar 11, 2021 · 7 comments
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Have 'MailTrackerBlocker' display its own version number... #73

Mfhejjas opened this issue Mar 11, 2021 · 7 comments
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@Mfhejjas
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Please consider enhancing 'MailTrackerBlocker' to display its own version number within the drop-down dialog window when the user clicks on the ⊗ "button". I've attached an image showing a possible way this might appear (as shown within the red ellipse)...

Regards, Mike Hejjas

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@apparition47 apparition47 added the enhancement New feature or request label Mar 12, 2021
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apparition47 commented Mar 12, 2021

I mentioned this in #17 but I'm planning on changing the UI modal to a "popover" like the Safari one. Here, I can include the version number somewhere (maybe on the popup after pressing ℹ️).

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As a corollary to this request: From my participation in a couple issues a few days ago, I have several "MailTrackerBlocker.pkg" installer files scattered around on my various Macs. How can I tell them apart? They show no version number in ⌘I Get Info, and they're dated only by when they were downloaded. And they don't offer to "Show Package Contents" in the contextual menu as some older .pkg files do. I opened the .pkg in Pacifist, but couldn't find a version number.

Apparently the only way I can determine the version of a particular .pkg is to install it, then go find the installed item (as I recall – though I don't think this info is in the documentation anywhere – it's in /Library/Mail/Bundles/) and do ⌘I Get Info on it. There the version number shows; I see I have "MailTrackerBlocker.mailbundle" v.0.3.17 installed now. Kinda tedious. Suggest adding version number to the package name, e.g. "MailTrackerBlocker-0.3.21.pkg". Also in whatever is the metadata that shows in ⌘I Get Info.

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Mfhejjas commented Mar 12, 2021 via email

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0.4.1 now displays its version number from the new popover.

As for including some versioning in the pkg itself--that's TODO

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An email message can contain more than one kind of tracker, can it not? And yet, for every email I've received so far that 'MailTrackerBlocker' reported containing a named tracker, apparently each of those emails only contained a single one. Does MTB only report the first tracker detected, or does it report them all? If MTB doesn't report all, please consider enhancing it to do so...

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Mike Hejjas

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I also thought email trackers would be like website trackers--as in, there would be multiple trackers from different vendors for each page/email. But since the past year, I've come across only one email that had more than one tracker and from separate vendors (CNN Newsletters #93). This seems to be an edge case. For this specific case, MailTrackerBlocker reports only the first but blocks all.

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As a corollary to this request: From my participation in a couple issues a few days ago, I have several "MailTrackerBlocker.pkg" installer files scattered around on my various Macs. How can I tell them apart? They show no version number in ⌘I Get Info, and they're dated only by when they were downloaded. And they don't offer to "Show Package Contents" in the contextual menu as some older .pkg files do. I opened the .pkg in Pacifist, but couldn't find a version number.

This is why I always rename downloaded installers with the version number.

Since you have Pacifist, you can find the version number in Info.plist > CFBundlePackageType. In the latest package this is in MailTrackerBlocker > Core Contents > MailTrackerBlocker.mailbundle> Contents > Info.plst.

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