On 2011-03-15 18:50 , Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
i don't know about David, but i dislike certain "simplifications" Apple has
applied in Mail:
- it doesn't display threads hierarchically,
Sure it does ... but the hierarchy is only one level deep. It doesn't
thread into a tree of arbitrary depth.
that's not a hierarchy, it's just a bunch, and a bunch that's sorted by
time, instead of which messages replied to which; it's not really nested
at all because the first item is a psuedo-item that changes depending
which messages are marked read
- it can't be stopped from marking messages as read,
Huh? It marks a message as read when you read it.
no, it marks a message when it has been _displayed_; this makes it
awkward to glance at a message body before deciding whether to read it now
- it doesn't display what folders have new mail since they were last viewed,
Huh again? Mail always tells me what folders I've told it to shuffle
mail into have unread items. It doesn't mark "new unread since the
last time you looked and didn't read anything' though.
i don't care about the unread count, but i do like Thunderbird's
highlight of mailboxes that have new mail since the last time i viewed
the mailbox; i have several mailboxes with many unread messages that i
won't look at unless something new comes in
- it can't have different view preferences (such as sorting or whether threads
are folded) per mailbox,
Sure it does. At any time, in any folder or collection of folder's
context, you can sort threads and fold them.
i meant "whether threaded", but in any case you're right, i mixed myself
up -- the prefs that aren't per-mailbox are just the columns and column
widths -- i don't need a recipient column in most mailboxes, but it's
very helpful in some
- it encourages top-posting,
That's up to you to work out. I generally prefer top posting, but it
depends on the context of the conversation.
i work it out by using an email client that lets me choose; i top-post
when i must, but Mail inserts blank lines at the top that i have to
delete when i don't top-post
- it doesn't display time in the list pane ...
Another huh? ... What's that I see over on the right hand side of this
snap shot?
http://homepage.mac.com/godders/mailinterface.jpg
got me on that one -- my columns are narrow and instead of "Today"
Thunderbird displays the time left-justified, no need for wide columns
so i learned a couple of things, but the features at the top of my list
are the ones that turn me off of Mail the most; i've let go of several
others over the years; i'd love Mail to have more flexibility because as
i said, the integration with other tools is nicely done
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