Pierre Igot (read his “Talking Mail.app” interview) at Betalogue describes the odd way in which Mail handles format=flowed text.

If you place your cursor at the beginning of a line of quoted text and hit return, Mail actually inserts two returns. Pierre says:

I don’t care what the reason for this is. The reality is that it is purely and simply wrong. There is no excuse for inserting two return characters where the user only meant to insert one.

What’s more, he says,

there are still many “smaller” bugs such as this one that have not been fixed. And, frankly, there is no sign of them getting fixed any time soon. At this point, bug reports about such “minor” flaws simply remain unanswered.

Rui Carmo (read his “Talking Mail.app” interview) at Tao of Mac also unloads on Mail in a big way in a recent post.

Rui prefaces a long list of over twenty bugs in Mail.app with a plea:

Apple, this is not a MUA. It’s a shambles…. In fact, I’m willing to bet a lot of people will tend to agree… especially those who use Mail.app professionally, against big e-mail archives or to keep track of mailing-lists other than the local knitting club.

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