Russin’ Frussin’ Cussin’ Mail.app
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
A German blogger wrote a post 
that deserves a wider hearing, if only because its passion is so heart-felt:
You email maniacs out there, let me tell you something — Never trust your emails to Apple Mail.
Really. I have not come across such an awful piece of email software for a long time. And I test all sorts of pre-Alpha releases.
But Apple Mail? With IMAP? Forget it! Gruesome.
I need pretty well four tries before an email is really properly marked as read.
Threading by name is not available. Who hit upon the silly idea of implementing threading by subject only? Why do you think the mail server puts equally clear message IDs in the headers?
Spam? It remains a puzzle to me how exactly Apple Mail learns if an email is spam or not.
But after marking the twentieth incorrectly-identified email from Deutsche Welle as ‘Not Spam’, even this wretched piece of software ought to recognise that I want to read them.
Sometimes I think that I would use my time more productively if I were to throw myself into RoundCube’s code and fix bugs or try my hand at producing some extensions (PGP-plugin, spam filter, threading). Then at least I would know who to blame if something goes wrong.
To the people at Apple who I have to thank for the opportunity of searching through my backups for two weeks of emails: May your hard disk 
disintegrate into its constituent parts and your backups get eaten by a dog!
This is a quick and dirty, unpolished translation. But as you can see from BabelFish’s effort after the jump, humans do not need to fear that computers will corner the translation market anytime soon.
