✅ What Your App Does

● Keeps emails unread in preview - Continuously protects emails from being auto-marked as read when selected

● Respects your manual actions - Honors toolbar clicks and keyboard shortcuts (shift-cmd-U)

● Allows reading when intended - Marks emails as read when you double-click to open in a new window

● Runs in background - Menu bar icon with enable/disable toggle

● Auto-launches - Starts automatically with Apple Mail

📦 Professional Distribution

● Clean installers - Both DMG and PKG with proper versioning (1.5.3)

● Visible app icon - Professional appearance in Applications folder

● Works across macOS versions - Compatible with Sonoma (14), Sequoia (15), and Tahoe (26)

🎯 Final Features

✓ Background operation with menu bar control

✓ Auto-start with Apple Mail ✓ Continuous preview protection ✓ Respects toolbar "Mark as Read/Unread" ✓ Respects shift-command-U keyboard shortcut ✓ Proper window detection for double-clicked emails ✓ Bui

Features

  • ● Keeps emails unread in preview - Continuously protects emails from being auto-marked as read when selected
  • ● Respects your manual actions - Honors toolbar clicks and keyboard shortcuts (shift-cmd-U)
  • ● Allows reading when intended - Marks emails as read when you double-click to open in a new window
  • ● Runs in background - Menu bar icon with enable/disable toggle
  • ● Auto-launches - Starts automatically with Apple Mail

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Mac

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Carbon (Mac OS X)

Programming Language

Swift

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Swift Email Software

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