Hi,
Sooo... I switched from Eudora to Apple Mail and am having a few
growing pains.
(QuickSilver 2002, Leopard)
I used EudoraMailboxCleaner, rebuilt the resulting mailboxes in Apple
Mail, and got most of my filters er a rules working.
My first impression of Apple Mail was that it's a POS because it was
abysmally slow. Turns out that to rebuild a mailbox, Mail opens each
and every message for *writing*, not just reading - so when they're
closed, fseventer throws them at ClamXav and Splotchlight for that
unnecessary 2nd and 3rd rescan. Splotchlight, of course, goes into
convulsions from being given so much work to do, mangles its indexing,
and throws thousands and thousands of errors at the console, which
then requires several cpu hours of the logger process futzing around.
sigh. So I beat it all with a stick, disabled Clam and Splotch, let
the rebuilds finish (21 years worth of mail!) then let Splotchlight
spend the night reindexing from scratch.
Overall Mail's performance is improved, as long as I stay away from
big mailboxes. Those still take 30s to a minute to view.
Ok - the questions:
Other than installing a newer WebKit system-wide (which has stability
issues), is there an "easy" way to point Mail to using a newer build?
The newer builds are much faster at displaying image heavy messages.
How do I tell Apple Mail to throw a message to my default browser?
Now and then, "friends" (peecee users) send me poorly formatted html
messages that get mangled by WebKit. I know by previous experience
that if I throw them at a non-webkit browser (eg: TenFourFox), they
display just fine. In Eudora, I did this by selecting the message
then hitting an "open in browser" button. What is the equivalent for
Apple Mail?
How do I quickly grab in-line photos? Some people send me messages
that contain dozens of photos. They're in-line - dragged into the
message body, not "regular" attachments. In Eudora, they appeared as
files in Eudora's "Parts" folder - easy to grab from Finder. Where
does Apple Mail stash them?
How do I create a rule to move sent messages to their appropriate
mailbox? I'm accumulating mailing list replies and such in the Sent
mailbox. I'd like them to automagically move to the right mailbox, to
keep the threads intact.
How do I create a rule to move attachments to an alternate folder?
I've no problem creating rules that move messages to specific
mailboxes. But on some, I'd like to also move the attachments to a
different folder, away from the default (which has become cluttered
fast!).
Thanks,
- Dan.
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