Niall O Broin writes:
> On 16 Jan 2007, at 12:20, Daniel Shaw wrote:
>> >> I wish someone would write an IMAP client that worked in the same
> >> way as gmail (eg conversations kept together). I hate having to trawl
> >> through my Sent Mail and then copying stuff back into various folders
> >> to achieve this in Thunderbird :/
> >
> > http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail/> >
> > Ok, ok, I know it's not going to run on your favourite Linux distro
> > but it's the most awesome little mail client. Really :-)
>> I use mail.app daily, as I use OS-X on an MBP and mail.app is the path
> of least resistance. But it has some cuties. It sometimes decides that
> mail I've read in an imap account I did NOT really read, and marks it
> unread again. This behaviour is completely random. I have a number of
> colleagues using mail.app with the same IMAP server I use and they
> never see this behaviour. Another ILUG member uses mail.app on two
> Macs, and sees this behaviour on one, but not on the other.
Also, don't forget that Mail.app will take your nice open mbox
archives and convert them into some horrible proprietary mess:
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/16/juggling-oranges
--j.
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