Four things that Mail.app can’t do
Saturday, October 14th, 2006
Hugo Haas has been wrestling 
with Mail.app.
Frustrating for him but interesting for us, he’s found four things that Mail.app can’t do:
- IMAP over SSL does not work if used through an SSH tunnel
- SMTP over SSL does not work if a SOCKS proxy is in use
- When a SOCKS proxy is set, excluding a hostname or domain does not work: it just makes any connection to a matching host fail
- Using an PAC file does not give satisfactory results (I don’t remember the details of this one, but basically I bumped into a number of issues)
I’m not so sure about the last one. Mail seems to negotiate the proxy.pac file at my work without any problems. I’ve never tried to do the other three myself.
Still, it’s nice to know that there is still room for improvement in Mail.app and the hope of even better things to come.
Tags: Apple Mail, bugs, mail.app, socks, SSH, SSL