The latest OS update is out.

According to the technical notes , 10.4.7 offers Mail.app users the following new features and bugfixes:

• Updates Help links within Mail alert messages so you are linked to useful content instead of a “No pages with your search words were found” page.
• Resolves a sync alert issue that could appear if Mail accounts were in different order on the different Macs that you were syncing.
• The Mail POP account option to “Remove copy from server after retrieving a message…” is no longer turned off after performing a sync with .Mac.
• POP accounts you create will no longer begin with the “Remove copy from server after retrieving a message…” preference setting turned off.
• Redirecting message to only a BCC: address no longer redirects the message to the original To: recipients as well.
• Improves results when retrieving IMAP messages with attachments over unreliable connections.
• Mail now supports connecting to mail servers through a SOCKS proxy. [Potential problems here]

Users with POP accounts should note the changes carefully.

I’m looking forward to seeing how that second last one pans out.

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Mark found juggling three apps - iCal, Address Book and Apple Mail - too much, so he switched to Entourage.

He makes a good point about the silliness of placing the setting for the default email client inside Mail.app’s preferences. (See also the default web browser setting inside Safari’s preferences).

Very “Microsoft behaviour”. It should, as he suggests, be “application neutral”, stored somewhere in OS X’s System Preferences.

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