Well, Mail certainly crashed originally as I recall but it's 8 years ago now and my recollection could be better! Yes, I did use 10.0.0. In fact, I still have the Beta disk somewhere which I even installed before the official release. I suppose as a programmer I was just stupidly keen ...
It seems that Mailsmith, for example, does lots of stuff that I don't know that I could do or want to do which is perhaps why I don't miss it ;-) My 'mailboxes' folder is 1.41GB. Considering that it has emails going back to 1998 you must get an absolute mountain of email, or a lot of huge attachments, to have problems with over 2GB! Maybe that's why I've not needed to exceed Mail's ability. Thanks for the info. Stephen On 17 Oct 2009, at 17:12, Jason Davies wrote: > > > On 17 Oct 2009, at 16:47, [email protected] wrote: > >> >> Just for my own information, what is wrong with Mail? I've used i >> since OS X launched and I've been pretty happy on the whole. I'm >> just curious what others find so problematic or lacking. >> >> Ducks to avoid an onslaught of "and another thing!" s > > > not sure if it' still true but the mailstore used to get unstable at > around 2 gigs. That might have changed since they brought in a > different format for spotlight. > > Not so much "what's wrong" as "what's lacking" for me. Mailsmith has > unrivalled applescript support (useful for using Dictate to control > it); the cleanest interface; filtering systems that knock the others > out of the water; highly complex search criteria [Mail is fast but > often not precise enough]; absolutely unrivalled text manipulation; > won't render HTML so is the most secure against all kinds of sneaky > invasions via 'nich' text; conforms absolutely to industry standards; > terrifying levels of support especially via the Mailsmith list; you > can attach scripts to menus and actions...it's dizzying what it can > do, frankly. > > and stuff like that. > > Mail is quite mature now (I remember the early days -- are you serious > you didn't have problems? you must be the only person on the planet. > Did you really use 10.0.0?!) though it still does annoying things like > assume you want to top-post (still haven't worked that one out). > > > "Aid is money taken from the taxation of the poor of the rich world, and given to the rich of the poor world, who then repay it to the rich of the rich world" - unknown --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
