Comments on: Opinion: Apple Mail

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By: Bogdan Lucut

Bogdan Lucut — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:32:43 +0000

I like it the way it is. I don’t like Thunderbird tough. Even from an aesthetic point of view the Apple Mail is better. On PC Thunderbird has no competitor, but here is just another one..

By: Jean-Paul

Jean-Paul — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:07:40 +0000

@cjmoore; if you know html and css you can create any template you like in mail, make it as complex or simple as you want. If you google for it there are numerous tutorials online on how to do it. Besides how do think companies like equinux do their bundles, or the dozens who provide custom services to do that…Unless I am misunderstanding what interpretation is of a template, it is definitely something you can do

By: cjmoore

cjmoore — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:19:26 +0000

I have to say, I agree with everything Chris says. Lack of customizable templates is on the main reasons I don’t use mail. I used Eudora until I couldn’t take the crashing anymore and now I use Thunderbird but the address book ui is awful, and it frequently drops addresses from lists. I look forward to the reviews – I’ve looked at Mailforge, Postbox and the Eudora version of Thunderbird and none of them really fit my needs.

By: PasmalLeCanonKitEOS7dYeah!

PasmalLeCanonKitEOS7dYeah! — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:13:29 +0000

Thanks for the post. I understand that by using a lot an application you can come across its limit. However, at this time I am using a Windows type machine and I think Apple is, despite the problems you found in Apple Mail, a real competitor to Microsoft. If I keep on visiting this site, who knows if I will not see Apple as the best hands down.

By: Loweded Wookie

Loweded Wookie — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:19:57 +0000

I have to say I can’t agree with anything here.

I use Mail all the time and if it wasn’t for the fact work is still on Exchange 2003 I would be using it for work email as well.

Smart Folders, RSS reading, data detectors, all things I use and find better than anything anyone else has come up with.

I like simple and Mail does that real well.

By: "Jones"

"Jones" — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:18:01 +0000

Yeah, I would have to disagree with this. I love the Mail application. Like Rob said, it’s crisp, clean and elegant. I use this at work with my MobileMe and Gmail push email boxes and it works wonders for me. No problem with it at all. Falls in line with the Apple philosophy of things: Simple, clean, and just works.

By: Rob Benson

Rob Benson — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:14:48 +0000

I actually like the mail app quite a bit. It is crisp, clean and does not get in my way. I do most of my Exchange-based work emailing in it because mail is fast, stabile, and features a search function that actually locates the emails I’m looking for as opposed to Outlook’s “random” search. That said, I agree fully with the points Chris makes. Mail is a bit TOO lean. With how feature rich the other stock apps are mail comes up a little short. It kind of feels like a 3rd party application. Maybe Apple just needs to spend some time adding a little gloss to it.

By: Joao

Joao — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:09:01 +0000

I use mail daily in my work. It could be better only if it had reading receipts.
A part from that it is great!

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:13:43 +0000

“But there is utility, and this is where Mail falls short for us.”

Please don’t presume to speak for me.

Mail is fine. It’s simple, it works, and it looks great.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:48:14 +0000

I personally love Mail….
Everything I’ve ever tried, Outlook, TBird etc… Fail…

Mail is almost perfect for me, I’d say it’s the app I use most and say, ‘hey, I’d like this to be added’ least…

It’s fast, looks nice, it just works!

By: Matt Ronge

Matt Ronge — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:05:26 +0000

Mail plugins are great way of enhancing Mail. Indev makes some really great ones http://www.indev.ca and I also have my own plugin that adds better search called Rocketbox. You can find my plugin at http://www.getrocketbox.com

Now it would be awesome if Apple had an official plugin API, but that’s wishful thinking at this point
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Matt

By: Chris Guilmet

Chris Guilmet — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:43:01 +0000

I stand very much corrected on the plug-ins issue. I will definitely check out MailTags.

By: nebula_1979

nebula_1979 — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:13:21 +0000

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http://www.hawkwings.net/

By: BaldGoat

BaldGoat — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:14:16 +0000

One feature not mentioned here – full exchange support. There are 2 options on the Mac – Entourage and Mail. Mail is the clear winner, IMHO.

I dropped some coin for the MailTags and Mail Act-on plugins that were developed by http://www.indev.ca/. Combine those plugins with Smart Mailboxes and my day-to-day email organization/management is a breeze.

By: Jean-Paul

Jean-Paul — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:36:31 +0000

I love the vanilla approach of Mail…I like that it is fast to use, stable and just does the job…I’ll be looking forward to the test as I am not certain I am missing anything…

However one thing you have wrong already in the article Mail does support plugins and extensions. I’ve been using MailTags for two years now…Love it for the organisation and control it provides…

By: Ronbo

Ronbo — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:18:37 +0000

I agree that Apple Mail is very “vanilla”

I would switch to something more eye-appealing, but I have yet to find another email app that combines the address book functionality.

Really, I would love the ability to customize the color of Apple Mail, such as backgrounds and borders. Would also love to have better tagging.

Apple is long overdue to make a significant facelift to this application.

By: Jerald

Jerald — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:27:10 +0000

I have to agree with tralari. You seem to be griping about features that in my 20 years of IT have seen exactly two people use, and have never used myself. If you have a custom, special requirement, then learn a little shell and get the on-board GNU utilities to do your dirty work for you with some text and an “at” job.

Just don’t sandbag the whole application because you have some goofy requirements.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:14:31 +0000

i don’t really like ical for reminders. I perfer to use an online service called MyEmailReminders.com. They have much better scheduling and they do text message reminders also. Check it out http://www.myemailreminders.com

By: tralari

tralari — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:01:23 +0000

I think it’s good and healthy to criticize apple’s apps, almost every mac blog out there does nothing but praise them. This being said, I think you should’ve developed the “what mail doesn’t get right” part of the post: Program mail to send at a certain time? templates?… dunno… but I can’t think of one single use I could realisticaly give to those features, maybe you should have written about some more things that mail lacks… because, after reading thins, what I’m thinking is: and what’s the thing I should be missing in mail.app?.

Looking forward to the posts about other email clients, maybe then I realize that there are lots of features missing in apple’s mail.

Bye, and pardon my english XD

By: Silver Surfer

Silver Surfer — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:33:56 +0000

Dude, why don’t you take Thunderbird and enjoy? I am still try to find out what is the point of this article, but without success…