Taking Apple Mail to a whole new level
Thursday, June 1st, 2006A traveller in Auckland New Zealand snapped this roadside shot of a converted G4 PowerMac:
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Posts Tagged ‘mailbox’
A 100% reliable way to destroy messages
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Pierre Igot at Betalogue has discovered a 100% reliable way to make
The procedure is complicated and involves copying an email from one
If you manage to do this while Mail.app is still transferring the initial message to its new mailbox, hitting Command-Z will not undo the initial move, but cause the email to vanish completely.
Pierre is not impressed:
It is really quite unacceptable. There is no excuse for it. It’s quite obvious that it’s a problem related to Mail’s
multithreading capabilities. Mail can move a message in one thread and let you select another mailbox in another thread at the same time. But this screws up its “Undo” sequence completely, and Mail clearly forgets where to put the message back when you undo the action! So it just lets the message vanish altogether!
Data integrity is always paramount. We can live withbugs that make simple actions more complex than they should be, or force us to go through workarounds to achieve what we want to achieve. But bugs that destroy our data with no chance of recovery are simply bad. They are the worst kind.
Take a read of his whole post. Or his whole blog. There’s a lot to learn there.
Apple Mail’s most eagle-eyed critic doesn’t miss much.
Tags: bugs, Data integrity, email, mail.app, mailbox, multithreadingRelated posts
Emailchemy 1.7: Amazing mailbox converter
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
Emailchemy is a
It already converts from an astonishing range of source formats into an equally astonishing range of target formats. (See earlier Hawk Wings post for a full list).
A new version has been released which adds support for
It was once free for a one-off use, but now seems to be shareware (USD 25). It is available from the developer’s web site.
Tags: CompuServe, conversion, MacCIM, mailbox, Musashi, utilityRelated posts
Fresh Start: 43Folders’ De-Mailed Zone
Thursday, January 5th, 2006Over at
Create the folder, dump your old outstanding emails into it, and begin the New Year with a clean
You still have to deal with the unfinished business, but the new start enables you to staunch the mental bleeding from that feeling of being so far behind.
You might even gain the focus to return to the DMZ folder with renewed enthusiasm after the day’s new mail is dealt with.
A good tip. But elusive, like the sound of one hand clapping. (I blame those Buddhism tapes).
He’s getting a bit of flak in the comments, which may show just how attached people are to their unfinished business!
Tags: 43Folders, email, Inbox, mailboxRelated posts
DockStar: A fistful of notification badges
Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
DockStar is a utility that allows you to assign a separate notification badge to different mailboxes.
It comes in the form of a classical plugin installing itself as a bundle with an options screen in Mail.app’s Preferences:
In the options you can assign a badge to up to 5 different mailboxes, choose from four different shapes, set the the size of each badge and select colour you want for each mailbox.
The result is a riot of notification badges, undeniably more colourful and possibly more informative:
DockStar is shareware (USD 8) and available from the developer’s web site.
Tags: account, Apple Mail, bundle, mail.app, mailbox, notification badges, plugin