Comments on: Why do people call it “Mail.app”?

By: SebastianL

SebastianL — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:23:07 +0000

Welcome

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:37:50 +0000

Thanks for the link. I must have blacked it out. :)

By: SebastianL

SebastianL — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:59:02 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Mail

Truth be told I don’t know the first thing about it. I just remembered coming across it when doing research on Microsoft for an essay a while back. I thought it was rather funny though because my first thought was Windows Mail in Vista.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:52:55 +0000

I don’t remember that Windows program at all. Was it part of 3.1?

By: SebastianL

SebastianL — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:36:46 +0000

Microsoft originally had an App called Mail as well, but it was replaced by Outlook Express, which is going to be replaced by Windows Mail. Confusing ya?

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:55:52 +0000

Retrying without rewording:-

systemsboy: In order- “mail” (the messages), “Mail” (the program), “Apple mail” (messages from Apple), “apple mail” (fruity topic), “Mail.app” (the program). Not complicated. Not confusing.

Anonymous: Shouldn’t that be “Dog.dog” ?

Someone could call it “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” if they want, it’s fine by me. That’s “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.app”, not “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.dog” by they way…

By: micmac

micmac — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:36:44 +0000

The explanation is simple. Some are not far away. But all of you failed to provide the main reason why it’s called Mail(.app)
It’s somewhat biblical : NeXT’s Mail.app was the FIRST EVER Unix Internet graphical mail application!
It’s the Mail Application by excellence.
It has also the affection bit on of course (and .app shows it) since it’s a respectable and friendly application and also because the NeXT people inside Apple are proud of their journey.
I wish the great Workspace Manager would return even under Finder disguise!

By the way under the NeXT system were also created the FIRST EVER graphical FTP, Usenet newsreader and of course web browser applications!!!
That’s not a small achievement!

By: Dan Warne

Dan Warne — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:29:44 +0000

I think when OS X 10.0 came out Mail actually appeared in the finder as “mail.app” while other applications didn’t. This may have carried through to 10.1 as well — can’t quite remember.

I’m sure that’s the actual origin of why people call it Mail.app.

I reckon it should be rebranded to “Apple Mail” … that would be a tidy name and would make Google searching easy.

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By: mrpetey

mrpetey — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:30:38 +0000

If you say “mail” people look at you funny as if what the heck are you talking about. E-mail? which e-mail app? Say “mail.app” and those who use Macs know what the heck you are talking about.

Pretty easy if you ask me. . .