Mail.app still sucks, four years later
When we were shipping Mac OS X (Cheetah) in 2001, Apple Management mandated that engineers use Mail.app for all email. It was terrible. Mail was crashing all the time, losing data, and just generally being un-cooperative. Productivity was in the toilet.
Now nearly five years later Mail.app is still a dog. My use case can't be that far off from the typical power user: I have one IMAP account for work, and one IMAP account for personal email. I want to access them both from any Macintosh. But this turns out to be difficult to set up, as it takes an fair amount of configuration for both accounts (and this config is stored on the client) and caching messages...don't get me started. I have a moderate amount of email (a 100MB or so) and Mail's caching algorithm locks up when trying to deal with it. Now that it has *finally* downloaded all my messages (took about a day) things have calmed down and Mail is usable.
But Mail.app doesn't respect the IMAP subsription list? WTF guys? so now have two mail folders "probablyspam" and "reallyspam" that I keep around for various reasons, not least in case something important gets dropped into the spam folders. Mail.app helpfully downloads all gazillion of these messages and gives no mechanism to say "stop fucking downloading all these messages I don't care about!!!"
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