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Apple Mail on OSX 10.4 (originally NeXT) working well today fyi the industrial strength, bullet proof, complex but profoundly reliable engineering within Apple
by mistrial9 4y ago
Apple Mail on OSX 10.4 (originally NeXT) working well today fyi
the industrial strength, bullet proof, complex but profoundly reliable engineering within Apple Mail shows itself to have stability over decades.
Why is this Thunderbird rewrite going to succeed ? A glossy sales pitch makes it less convincing, not more. This is a years' long project with no guranteed outcomes.. in fact, I would suspect that noveau security trappings and trend-based GUI embellishments would almost guarantee a "mayfly life" at great expense, contrasted to the Oak trees of original Internet standards.
cynical? perhaps.. prove it wrong
- officeplant 4y agoMeanwhile the current Apple Mail app can be very slow & crash prone in my experience.
- DwnVoteHoneyPot 4y agoI think Apple Mail was unusable around that time for me. I think it mangled attachments to/from Windows, font sizing was off (i forget if it was previews or when writing). Search didn't work.
- flomo 4y agoYeah, old versions of Apple Mail used some weird 'RTF' format and IIRC security issues around attachments. I use the modern version, but NextMail was a different thing and legacy bits hung around for a while.
- mistrial9 4y ago> some weird 'RTF' format and IIRC security issues unlike the reliable and standards-based clients on Windows, you mean?
- endlessvoid94 4y agoI had an issue with Apple Mail taking too much disk space, since it used to download....a lot of mail. Has this been fixed?