OK, I give up on Mail. Here's why:<de-cloak>
I'm sort of the opposite. I've been lurking here for a long time (~98) and was a "you'll get emailer from me when you pry it from my cold, dead hard drive..." type, but since switching full time to X it just wasn't worth the overhead of classic to me. At one time I even had a project to do an applescript to dump/archive to MySQL from emailer (it worked, but was slow and never got fleashed out). I was not impressed by the Mail that came w/ 10.0 & 10.1, but the Mail that came w/ 10.2 finally won me over. (maybe it also had to do w/ running on a nice new 17" iMac). It has enough ways to make it "homey" to me that I just got over my long time addiction and have been pretty happy. I haven't had an AOL account weighing me down to it for about 2 years now, so the biggest hurdle was already jumped.
It doesn't render html correctly at all... heck, I'd rather just drag the
dang file on top of Safari to do that.
I have yet to see anything that bad about it's HTML rendering. I've seen similar comments from the guy who was writing the Lockergnome Mac newsletter when it started up, and yes, it doesn't look like it does in Mozilla, but some of that had to do w/ sloppy (non-standard) html that won't validate (I've checked). I've never seen the attraction of html in mail anyway and prefer plain ascii in everything (one of the reasons I stayed so in love w/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] for so long).
It downloads messages multiple times from the server. Today, I got to relive my e-mail from June 1st and 2nd.
This sounds like a pop3 server problem. I've seen it happen w/ emailer and mozilla and pine, etc. There are some times when a pop3 server doesn't properly sync up the read flags w/ any client connected to it. One possible situation being an ISP changing over to a back-up pop server that is just receiving on it's own - I've had that happen w/ about a weeks worth of mail in the queue on me (on an account that I primarily use Mozilla as the client for). I've never seen this happen in Mail unless it was also happening on other clients on the same server. Don't be too quick to judge the client.
Attachments aren't really attachments... they are actually in the message. Ugh.
Depends on filetype and encoding - if the mimetype from the sender was set to be inline, it'll display inline (if it's one that Mail can handle natively like jpeg, text, html, gif, or pdf). None of this is very different from most clients that have inline display capability.
I guess I'll try out Mailsmith next...
Have fun. I think I'll stay put for now. </de-cloak> -- Bryan Baker ____________________________________ Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It only wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
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