A list of scandalous problems with Mail.app
The owner of rtfa.net has posted a list 
of the things that are annoying, broken or just plain scandalous about Mail.app.
He is an unhappy Apple Mail user: “Well, if Thunderbird integrated with spotlight and OSX address book, it’d be a no-brainer. However, I’m entrenched.”
And life in the trenches with Mail.app is not good.
Three problems score the highest scandal rating — incorrect treatment of IMAP’s “seen flag”, the “lost message” problem and the “invalid pointer†problem.
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October 29th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
I just found this out the hard way too.
I have a PDA and I need to sync with my Mac. Unfortunately, the only email program which takes the addresses is Mail.
Mail can be improved if Apple just gets their heads together and offers what Thunderbird does, with address book and calendar integration.
October 29th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
I have a PDA to (Palm), and one of the best things I learnt when moving to Mac world from Windows was to use Mark Space Missing Sync to sync my Palm with the Mac.
I mostly use Mail as my mailer and think it is not too bad. (I still sometimes use Opera - for old times sake). No mailer is perfect; none do it all… (and I have used most).
With Missing Sync, you can get Entourage to sync directly with the Palm…but I had problems when I did this. However, I sometimes use Entourage, and it syncs with Apple’s Addresss Book with no problems.
I used Thunderbird a fair bit in Windows world, and flirted with it briefly on this iMac, but the lack of syncing with Apple’s Address Book -and my other mixed feelings about Thunderbird, made me give T-bird the flick.
Each to his own. Nothing is perfect.