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Re: Verizon Email => AOL

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Verizon Email => AOL
Date	2017-03-07 14:39 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<ei7v1sFo1hvU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	(4 earlier) <barmar-D3D396.16043504032017@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu> <040320171623041494%nospam@nospam.invalid> <barmar-403EDC.17223305032017@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu> <slrnobsu8r.130p.g.kreme@snow.local> <070320170802105582%nospam@nospam.invalid>

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On 2017-03-07, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <slrnobsu8r.130p.g.kreme@snow.local>, Lewis
><g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
>> Nospam has a bug up his ass about Mail.app for some reason.
>
> because it's awful and doesn't work properly. unfortunately, other mail
> apps are worse.

I'm hearing hyperbole. Apple's Mail works fine the majority of the time
for me and most people I know. Sure, it has it's bugs and shortcomings;
but it gets the job done sufficiently for most.

>> I've used hundreds of mail clients of the years, many different ones in
>> the bad-old-days of the 80s and 90s. Things like mailx and elm and
>> Eudora and custom mail readers for BBSs and the list goes on.
>> 
>> While at the time elm (which lead to pine/alpine) was great, it's CLI
>> roots really don't work in a modern mail system. Same with mutt, which
>> is great on the command line and almost GUI-like, but not.
>
> i've used cli mail clients too. still do, in fact.

Many of us have and do.

>> Even under OS X (macOS) I've tried dozens.
>> 
>> Mail.app is easily the best of the lot and the only one where I've never
>> lost mail. It lacks features I would really like and so I have to resort
>> to logging in to the server and doing thins sometimes, but they are
>> esoteric things I would LIKE, not necessary things I need.
>
> i've had to restore from backups on more than one occasion because
> apple mail munged my mail.

Interesting. That's never happened to me through many years on many
different Macs.

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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  Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-03 17:14 -0500
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                Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-07 08:02 -0500
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      Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-04 18:06 -0500
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                Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-04 02:33 -0500
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                Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-04 13:40 -0500
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                Re: Verizon Email => AOL nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-04 19:59 -0500
                Re: Verizon Email => AOL Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-04 18:40 +0000
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