Paul Westbrook spent Thanksgiving using Mail.app on a dialup connection. The slower speed helped him to notice three problems with the way Apple Mail implements IMAP.

Pierre Igot at Betalogue has discovered a design flaw in the way Mail.app handles replies that “illustrates Apple’s lack of concern for people with dial-up Internet connections”:

In that particular situation, when you select a message that contains attachments and hit the “Reply” button or press Command-R to create a reply to that particular message, if your Internet connection happens to be saturated, then Mail takes an abnormally long time to open the window with the new reply. I am talking about 10 seconds or more.

I’ve added OneClick — an applescript that simplifies the dialup process in Mail.app — to the Added Functionality section, GoogleFill — reverse address look-up for Address Book contacts — to the Address Book section and DockStar — multiple notification badges for Apple Mail — to the Notification section.

The Hawk Wing’s Plug-in and Add-on List now contains 90 plug-ins, add-ons, scripts and helpful apps to help Apple Mail work smarter, quicker and better.