TUAW has launched its annual “Mail.app is terrible” post.
Last year (26 October 2005) it was What’s wrong with Apple Mail and how it needs to be fixed. Twenty TUAW got into the spirit of things and listed their gripes which were interesting to read.
This year it’s How Apple doesn’t really understand email 
either on the Desktop or webmail.
The general sense is that Apple hasn’t performed well:
Don’t get me started on how it’s taken our favorite fruit half a decade just to build an almost-usable email client application (certainly won’t be business-class anytime this decade). I mean, waiting until 2007 just to have a proper email client? Super. Anyone else not really digging Apple’s lame attempts to manage email?
The name of the perfect email client against which Mail.app is judged so harshly is not revealed, nor are we told what will make Leopard Mail “proper”.
Still, it’s a good place to vent frustrations or to watch other people vent theirs (if you are into that sort of thing).
Not sure what you people expect of a mail app? I’ve been using Mail since it was on NeXT. It has improved since NeXT, and is still the best email app on the planet.
I STOPPED using .Mac mail. It used to be usable,
but not it is just trash. No filtering, no junk mail and you can’t select 50 emails at a time and delete
them! You have to do it ONE at a TIME. I like Mac
mail and will use it. But they really screwed up
.Mac mail. I would like to see the OLD .Mac mail
return; anything is better than what they have now.
dr burke