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Re: Strange mail.app problem

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On 2014-02-06, Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:
> On 5 Feb 2014 22:10:24 GMT, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2014-02-05, billy@MIX.COM <billy@MIX.COM> wrote:
>>> In comp.sys.mac.apps Claude V. Lucas <claudel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mail.app has been downright weird since the Mavericks upgrade for 
>>>> me.
>>>
>>> I can't use it, at all.  And, I have the very same MTA (server) 
>>> (Oracle's Convergence) that Apple itself uses.
>>>
>>>> Needs some work.
>>>
>>> Yes, it definitely does.
>>
>> And then there are people like me who have been using it for years, 
>> yes, even with 10.9...
>
> I've been using it all along since 10.0.1, but there are things about 
> Mail that are hinky.  It doesn't quite thread correctly, there are weird 
> things that happen resulting in a thread having the wrong subject line, 
> and it has never quite conformed with Unix keyboard standards for going 
> through messages.  But it's still better IMHO than any of the 
> alternative mail applications... which says something about the state of 
> e-mail on Mac OS.

Right. I didn't say it was without issue. All software has issues. Even
with its issues, however, I've never considered it to be completely
unusable as indicated  above.

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JR

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Strange mail.app problem Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-05 11:50 -0700
  Re: Strange mail.app problem John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-02-05 11:13 -0800
    Re: Strange mail.app problem Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-05 12:22 -0700
  Re: Strange mail.app problem claudel@sonic.net (Claude V. Lucas) - 2014-02-05 21:25 +0000
    Re: Strange mail.app problem billy@MIX.COM - 2014-02-05 21:59 +0000
      Re: Strange mail.app problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-05 22:10 +0000
        Re: Strange mail.app problem Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-02-05 18:23 -0600
          Re: Strange mail.app problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-06 00:34 +0000
        Re: Strange mail.app problem claudel@sonic.net (Claude V. Lucas) - 2014-02-06 13:23 +0000
          Re: Strange mail.app problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-06 16:19 +0000
            Re: Strange mail.app problem claudel@sonic.net (Claude V. Lucas) - 2014-02-06 16:48 +0000
      Re: Strange mail.app problem billy@MIX.COM - 2014-02-25 19:07 +0000
    Re: Strange mail.app problem Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-02-06 23:16 -0500
      Re: Strange mail.app problem Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2014-02-07 20:30 +0000
        Re: Strange mail.app problem nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-07 18:43 -0500

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