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Mail.app is near perfect for me - however, Apple REFUSES to fix its IMAP support. If you access your email from more than one device (hey, that's why I'm using

Mail.app is near perfect for me - however, Apple REFUSES to fix its IMAP support. If you access your email from more than one device (hey, that's why I'm using IMAP), Mail does not properly query header counts, so folders get out of sync. If you restart Mail, then it does the right thing. I've resigned myself to doing that 10 times a day. Bleah.

dchuk 13y ago
"near perfect" and "[restarting] 10 times a day" seem like incompatible notions to me.
- girvo 13y ago
  It's not incompatible, if that is the only issue your parent is facing. Personally, I just Mail.app clunky as hell.
- coldtea 13y ago
  Near perfect = it does everything I want to they way I like it. [restarting] 10 times a day = it has a bug that needs restrarting 10 times a day to do so. He didn't say it was perfect as in bug free. Just as in "does what I want".
harlanlewis 13y ago
I loved Mail.app after switching to SSD a few years ago. Near-instant local search and a large set of smart mailboxes made for a fast and highly personalized workflow in a native retina desktop app. Email bliss. Unfortunately, Apple began syncing Smart Mailboxes via iCloud in Mavericks, and the Smart Mailboxes saved on iCloud became corrupt. This corruption causes Mail.app to crash on launch when it tries to fetch and apply remote settings, and affects every computer that uses iCloud. Senior support at Apple confirmed it's an iCloud issue and passed it to support engineering to resolve, which have been MIA. Issue remains open after 2 months, during which I've tried every alternative desktop email client and found them severely lacking - some are highly functional, some have pretty graphics and typography, none both. (to tie this back to the original article, I ran the Mail Pilot preview a couple months ago) Heed my warning - iCloud will wreck the things you hold dear. /rant.

dchuk 13y ago

"near perfect" and "[restarting] 10 times a day" seem like incompatible notions to me.

girvo 13y ago
It's not incompatible, if that is the only issue your parent is facing. Personally, I just Mail.app clunky as hell.
coldtea 13y ago
Near perfect = it does everything I want to they way I like it. [restarting] 10 times a day = it has a bug that needs restrarting 10 times a day to do so. He didn't say it was perfect as in bug free. Just as in "does what I want".

harlanlewis 13y ago

I loved Mail.app after switching to SSD a few years ago. Near-instant local search and a large set of smart mailboxes made for a fast and highly personalized workflow in a native retina desktop app. Email bliss. Unfortunately, Apple began syncing Smart Mailboxes via iCloud in Mavericks, and the Smart Mailboxes saved on iCloud became corrupt. This corruption causes Mail.app to crash on launch when it tries to fetch and apply remote settings, and affects every computer that uses iCloud. Senior support at Apple confirmed it's an iCloud issue and passed it to support engineering to resolve, which have been MIA. Issue remains open after 2 months, during which I've tried every alternative desktop email client and found them severely lacking - some are highly functional, some have pretty graphics and typography, none both. (to tie this back to the original article, I ran the Mail Pilot preview a couple months ago) Heed my warning - iCloud will wreck the things you hold dear. /rant.