The Yin and the Yang of Apple Mail
Unhappy
- Chris McLeod at Pixel Meadow feels an undefined frustration with Apple Mail and is looking for a new mail client.
- Pierre Igot at Betalogue is significantly annoyed at the way Apple Mail quotes text in replies.
- Marc Chadwick at the Web Realm had a lot of trouble with Apple Mail hanging. And right after a bad breakfast too.
- Alex King doesn’t like at all the way Mail handles signatures for multiple aliases on one account.
- Rui Carmo at the Tao of Mac is extremely irritated by Mail’s “utterly useless Exhange support”. Thunderbird or the mail client starting with “E” beckon.
- Bruno Rodrigues at Litux is fed up with Mail’s IMAP performance.
Happy
- Justin Blanton loves the way Mail handles the 22,000+ emails in his inbox.
- Michael Shaffer on the Blog of Doom is very pleased with the way Mail.app handles his spam.
- Alex King is quite happy about the way Smart Folders let him view his mail in Apple Mail.
- Joseph Scott is convinced that Apple Mail is “the least evil of all my evil choices for email clients on the Mac”. (That’s happy, isn’t it?)
Slightly more Yin it seems.
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September 28th, 2005 at 5:19 pm
Hello.
I was terrible fed up with Apple Mail when used with Courier IMAP server. Independently of any bug in Courier, Apple Mail worked well in 10.3.9 but not as good in 10.4.x. This was my biggest complaint.
Now I’m using a Dovecot server and not having major problems. Apple Mail still freezes, still shows the wrong new message count near the folders, still corrupts the cache every six month and other bad issues, but it’s a lot less bad than before.
If I would give a score to Apple Mail, I would give a 8 to Panther’s Mail, a 4 to 10.4.0/1’s Mail, and a 7 to the latest 10.4.2 version.
October 6th, 2005 at 9:10 pm
[...] Just over a week ago, I trawled the blogs of the world looking for user experiences with Apple Mail. I found more unhappy than happy users, which was slightly depressing–“The Yin and the Yang of Apple Mail”. [...]