Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 15:25:51 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <52e6356c-843c-4524-8896-fbfa2ca3c1a4@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1377357951 7884 166.84.1.5 (24 Aug 2013 15:25:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 15:25:51 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:47985 Doug Anderson writes: > Not sure what you find buggy about Mail. The version supplied with OS 10.3 is quite good. The one with OS 10.4 seems to be ok, but I haven't used it much. The one with 10.5 deletes messages at times when switching windows via Command-`. It does not move them to the trash, it just completely whacks them, including the copy on an IMAP server. It also takes two Command-0 commands to open the Activity window (or clicking its menu entry twice), where one is supposed to do it. For that matter, OS 10.5 is seriously bug-ridden. People with PPC computers would, on the whole, be better off running 10.4. In the way of just annoying crap, to select what you want to search on with the 10.3 user agent, you can just click on the little disclosure triangle next to the magnifying glass in the search string entry box. With the 10.5 version, you have to type in at least two characters first, then a menu of choices will appear below. Lame. The disclosure triangle is gone. This sort of stuff does not bode well for later versions of Mail. Thunderbird seems in general to be much better, but it does not make it easy to sync just one mail account, while leaving all the others alone. Of course, if you only have one account, or don't care about this, it is a better choice. > I doubt that any other clients are less buggy. I'm only about a week into trying them, but so far it has not been much fun. Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number