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Mac OS 10.9 – Infinity times your spam

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Re: Mac OS 10.9 – Infinity times your spam

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Post by hboon »

Mail in Mavericks is bad.

Since the previews, I have not been able to archive emails for Gmail accounts or Google Apps for Business. A subset of mails archived directly on Gmail will appear and stay in Mail's Inbox. I'm not sure where the developers for Mail went to that they didn't have the resources to fix it. Maybe to help with the iOS 7 crunch?

Re: Mac OS 10.9 – Infinity times your spam

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Post by robn_fastmail »

hboon wrote: post #2

Mail in Mavericks is bad. Since the previews, I have not been able to archive emails for Gmail accounts or Google Apps for Business. A subset of mails archived directly on Gmail will appear and stay in Mail's Inbox. I'm not sure where the developers for Mail went to that they didn't have the resources to fix it. Maybe to help with the iOS 7 crunch?

Yeah, this one is well known, see https://tidbits.com/article/14219.

We actually have some evidence to suggest that we've picked up a few customers leaving Gmail because of this problem. Which is nice, but now we have to deal with a different bug. Nobody is safe from Mail.app! ;)

Re: Mac OS 10.9 – Infinity times your spam

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Post by fit2rule »

sigh I really miss the good ol' days of e-mail, before all these Web 2.0 people hit the scene with their "let us scan your mail for other addresses" this and their "we'll keep a safe copy of your email as a backup, using IMAP" that ..

Frankly, though, I blame MS Outlook. When it hit the scene, email became a thorny mess of standards, almost-standards, and not-standard at all .. and it seems the rest of the industry is quite happy following that disastrous path to oblivion set out for us with the MS Outlook/Exchange competition.

Re: Mac OS 10.9 – Infinity times your spam

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Post by Ramattack »

Ramattack wrote: post #5

I already have too a bug opened to apple due to an incorrect handle of uidl with 0 at left... I opened it like one year ago... Still no answer... This bug is in all ios apple mail clients....

Well no answer.... They told me they knew the bug.... But it's still opened

Re: Mac OS 10.9 – Infinity times your spam

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Post by leephillips »

This is good news: it seems as if Apple's quality control is improving. After all, there is no report here of Mail.app actually deleting messages[0] [EDIT: oh, well] or sending out hundreds of copies of a message.[1]

Despite this improvement, however, I think I shall continue to avoid this company's software in favor of more mature, open source solutions.[2]

  [0]http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12758081&tstart=0
  [1]http://lee-phillips.org/iphoneUpgradeWarning-4-2-1/
  [2]http://www.mutt.org/ (http://www.washington.edu/alpine/ might be OK, too.)

Re: Mac OS 10.9 – Infinity times your spam

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Post by recuter »

leephillips wrote: post #7

This is good news: it seems as if Apple's quality control is improving. After all, there is no report here of Mail.app actually deleting messages[0] [EDIT: oh, well] or sending out hundreds of copies of a message.[1] Despite this improvement, however, I think I shall continue to avoid this company's software in favor of more mature, open source solutions.[2] [0]http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12758…

[2] You've misspelled Alpine. :P

Re: Mac OS 10.9 – Infinity times your spam

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Post by TsiCClawOfLight »

coldcode wrote: post #9

Email is always a bitch. Google's implementation of IMAP is a disaster as well. I have yet to find any email app on any platform that I can't swear at daily. I even tried to write my own before sanity returned.

I haven't had any issues with thunderbird.
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