--On 7 July 2009 09:57:23 -0400 Jorey Bump <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Personally I'd suggest Mac OSX and Apple Mail as a first cut for anyone >> who wants an easy-to-manage and easy-to-use, and half-decent MUA. >> >> It doesn't do everything I want to do as a hyper-experienced e-mail >> user, nor is it apparently easy to write proper extensions for, but it >> certainly does cover all the main requirements the average user has. > > I disagree. Apple Mail has some fundamental usability issues that need > to be addressed. Every time I try it out, I can't get past the fact that > there's no easy way to step through all unread messages in a mailbox. > How do people quickly read new mail with Apple Mail? I have a smart mailbox which shows me only the "unread messages" in a collection of mailboxes. What I don't like is that it constructs RFC ignorant headers when sending messages to people in Address Book groups. It's a bug that I've repeatedly reported with every version of OSX since the public Betas. I think the current version of this bug (it's their third attempt at fixing it), is that it creates a TO header like: To: undisclosed recipients : <>; Which is so close to being right that it makes me want to cry. Previously, it would read: To: Group Name (where "Group Name" is the name of the group, and happens to be the default group name in Apple's address book). The best solution would be say To: Group Name:; and revert to "undisclosed recipients:;" if the group name has any syntax problems. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/ ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
