Benny, thanks for this. I understand there might be a rough ride for a while although given your quality of work I do not see that as a high risk. :-) In general, more developers should go down the path you do.
Thanks! Patrik P.S. And thanks for the pointers to documentation about it! On 25 Mar 2019, at 15:27, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: > Hi MailMate users, > > the latest test release of MailMate is the first one which has a so-called > “hardened runtime”. This allows it to be notarized by Apple resulting in the > following to be shown when new users open MailMate for the first time: > >  > > (The usual one has a yellow warning triangle.) > > Apple writes about notarization > [here](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizing_your_app_before_distribution), > but it's written for developers. Most users just need to know that > notarization means that before each release I upload a copy to Apple. They > make some automated checks and report back when it has been accepted/rejected. > > The hardened runtime means that MailMate cannot access resources for which I > have not explicitly requested MailMate to be able to access. For example, > MailMate can no longer, in any way, access the camera, because I have not > requested such access in the so-called list of entitlements. For now, > MailMate only requests access to Contacts, Calendar, and AppleScript. The > user is still explicitly asked about access and access can be declined by the > user (just like before). > > Most of the above is only relevant on Mojave. > > Now, MailMate is a complex beast and it's very likely I've made mistakes. I > have also not tested that it does not break anything on macOS releases before > Mojave (in theory, it shouldn't be a problem...). > > In case of any issues, the last test release without the hardened runtime can > be fetched here: http://updates.mailmate-app.com/archives/MailMate_r5620.tbz > > And yes, I will hopefully soon get around to answering mailing list emails :) > > -- > Benny > > --- > Technical details: > > If you want to test this from scratch then you need to explicitly download > MailMate here: http://updates.mailmate-app.com/archives/MailMate_r5622.tbz > > You also need to reset existing MailMate permissions like this: > > tccutil reset All com.freron.MailMate > > (This affects what you see in the “Security & Privacy ▸ Privacy” pane of > System Preferences.) > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > mailmate@lists.freron.com > https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
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