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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: New old behavior in mail.app
Date: 26 Mar 2015 12:41:36 GMT
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On 2015-03-25, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <slrnmh6e3g.9nl.g.kreme@kreme.eternal-september.org>, Lewis
><g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
>> >> I've become
>> >> accustomed to Mail, but that doesn't mean I think it's ideal, by any means
>> 
>> > it's slow, buggy and downright awful.

I'd say it's decent, but has some quirks and problems, like any
software. Apple does update it from time to time. I wouldn't call it
awful. It does work well most of the time, and has some nice features I
expect from a mail client. 
 
>> Mail.app handles my 750,000 emails very well, actually. And it is much
>> faster with Eudora which required me to be very careful about large
>> mailboxes because it used a single mbox file to store things.
>
> it takes as much as 10 seconds to sync my mailboxes. filters do not
> work for shit. 

That's not my experience at all. I have 140,000+ emails in my Mail
database, and seven accounts with different providers including my own
email server, iCloud, GMail, and Hotmail. Checking for new mail takes 3
to 6 seconds, iCloud usually taking the longest. I have 19 rules, and
all of them work just fine.

>> I still have one mbox file that Eudora totally fucked up. I keep it
>> because it has some emails in it from the mid 90s to early 2000s from
>> old friends and I can just open the thing in a text editor and find most
>> the bits and pieces I care about, but it would take way too much effort
>> to try and fix that mbox file into separate emails.
>
> did you try one of the eudora utilities? 

Not the point. The point is that Eudora had its own share of problems;
and he's right about that.

>> And Eudora always was piss-poor at IMAP. In fact, I'd go so far as to
>> say that for IMAP, it never actually worked.
>
> imap was not eudora's strength, but that's because eudora goes back to
> before there was imap.

Considering Eudora was in development until 2006, and IMAP was around
back in 1986, that's really not much of an excuse. I wonder if
Thunderbird handles IMAP any better, or just the same.

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JR