I’m finally ready to give up on Apple's mail. Since the Mavericks upgrade, it has become unreliable. Here are some of the problems I see all the time with version 7.1 (1827) of Mail under OS X 10.9.1.
(1) This morning I sent a several emails, but none of them are cached in the Sent mailbox. A search of the machine finds them nowhere. In fact, none of the many emails I sent yesterday afternoon can be found in the Sent mailbox. All the sent mail since 9:32 yesterday morning has vanished. (2) The smart mailboxes regularly lose count of unread messages. I have several smart mailboxes right now showing two unread messages when there are actually none. I've tried rebuilding mailboxes and marking all the messages as read. I've even gone so far as to delete the mailboxes and recreate them and even kill the plist files. The problems return. The worst is the VIP smart mailbox that's hard-wired into Mail. My VIP mailbox shows five unread messages with none to read. (3) I've had Gmail vanish as I was reading it. (4) Mail regularly fails to notice new messages in Gmail. (5) Mail regularly gets confused when using secure, authenticated SMTP servers. It starts asking for the password and will never authenticate. (6) Mail won't list all the possible completions from an LDAP server, if there are more than about a dozen possibilities. (This may be a Contacts problem.) Oddly, Mail on iOS doesn't have these problems. I've started using my iPad to read Gmail. So … are there better alternatives? It seems that Apple has sucked the air out of the email developers by shipping a free product. I've tried Thunderbird and find it klunky. Sparrow looked promising, but was bought by Google and development has ceased. MailForge is a Eudora clone and seems to be dead in the water. Unless I find something better, I'll move on to Thunderbird.
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