Why oh why did Apple mess up Mail in Mavericks so badly? It works just fine in iOS! My most recent attempt to get Gmail accounts to work in Mavericks Mail was yesterday, and I basically recreated the accounts. But there was still too much weirdness. Like new mail arriving in "Archives" sub-folders but not in the Inbox for some reason. And then I noticed that some mail was being sent through the wrong SMTP server even though I had checked "only use this server" in the settings! That could cause problems, and even prove embarrassing if you are not careful. And then some email stopped coming in again, like before. It sure is a mess. I can't believe Apple let it out the door like this.
So for the last few days, I've just been using Gmail directly in the web interface. I have gotten to like multiple tagging, and the direct Gmail interface lets you do that rather quickly. But there are too many things about a web interface which make it awkward to use every day. For example you can't drag-and-drop attachments into an email. You have to use select, which is not always convenient. And having multiple browser tabs open for mail is not fun. *I was thinking, if** I have to use Gmail more or less directly, Mailplane might be a better choice.* Because it does add a few things like drag-and-drop that the web interface doesn't have. And I had good experience with Mailplane Beta 3 when I tried it out a while back, and found communication with the Mailplane team very nice. They are a friendly group of people. But even Mailplane doesn't allow you to drag mail between accounts, right? That is sometimes a problem. For example, a customer might email me at my personal email account, and I really want to file them in their customer folder in my work account. Is there any way to deal with this in Mailplane? The other sticking point, of course, is that Mailplane only works for Gmail. Most of my accounts are Gmail, but I have one exchange account with a customer, plus I have a few "regular IMAP" accounts that are on a hosted server. For the "other, regular IMAP accounts" I understand there might be a way to set up Gmail accounts for them and route them through Gmail. Does that work well? Are there any instructions about doing that? If so, I suppose could use Mailplane for my Gmail accounts and live without dragging between accounts, and use Mail app just for the Exchange account. Also, what about backups? What does Mailplane actually keep on my computer? And if it keeps databases on my Mac, do they play well with Time Machine. I had also been trying Airmail for a while recently, and submitting but reports, but it has too many quirks and bugs, and I was starting to feel unsafe using it. For example: 1. Sent mail often does not get marked as sent to it would not show up in the Sent folder, even in Gmail. 2. Deleting a single message would delete the whole conversation. 3. Composing problems: sent mail would lose indentation of things like code samples. 4. Could not easily move between accounts (maintaining the original dates, moving multiple mails at once). Of course you can't do that in Mailplane either. 5. Could not choose any mail to "send again" - really necessary! Airmail staff actually got argumentative about that when I mentioned it. Can we "send again" in Mailplane? 6. Cannot easily read an unread mail and then go on to the next unread mail in chronological order. I have to either read newest-to-oldest or after deleting/archiving the current mail I end up at an older, already-read mail. This is rather inconvenient. Can we do this in Mailplane? I tried Thunderbird, but even the latest version is quite "creaky and slow" and has bugs with conversations. I was curious about Postbox, but it really puts me off that they have zero person-to-person user support, and don't even have a user-to-user support forums. And it seems people are complaining that it hasn't been updated in quite a while. So I'm hesitant to invest my time in an app when I don't know where it is going. Mailplane at least has support!!! Thanks for any feedback you can give me. doug -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
