Comments on: Modernizing Mail.app: The Problem

By: white rock homes

white rock homes — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:24:50 +0000

I usually do not comment on blog posts but I found this quite interesting, so here goes. Thanks!

By: Harvey Shipley

Harvey Shipley — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:09:30 +0000

I have just had to take a moment to tell you that I’m really impressed by your music blog. this is an excellent site.

By: iWish iHad… « I’ve got a macbook and an iphone and I’m not so happy… (or am I?)

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:49:04 +0000

[...] truth is, it’s far from perfect. Here are my [...]

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:23:21 +0000

Always good quality info from this site!

By: Joshua Parker

Joshua Parker — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:48:39 +0000

I too love Mail but I do have to agree with Allister: “Why are my IMAP folders and the associated inbox not in the same place?” That is very annoying and that is why I tried figuring out another solution. I have several email accounts, and I forward them to my me.com account. It is definitely not the ideal situation but it works. The downfall is that I am not utilizing Gmail and Mail to the its fullest capacity. So because I can’t stand to see 50 different folders in my sidebar, I decided that this works best for me. Furthermore, I like the little tidbits that a few people have contributed in the comments. I think it is worth trying out some of them in the workflow that I have created. Thanks for the post.

By: Modernizing Mail.app: The Solution | The Apple Blog

Modernizing Mail.app: The Solution | The Apple Blog — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:00:43 +0000

[...] my previous post, I criticized Mail.app for not providing modern tools to improve email management. Nevertheless, I [...]

By: Matthew Bookspan

Matthew Bookspan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:37:53 +0000

@Jocca – great tip!

@Gary – yes – I would love to see a Xobni for Mail.app.

@Leonard – sorry.

By: Jocca

Jocca — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:51:12 +0000

You can color tag your e-mail files in Mail, by selecting the file and clicking on the colorsync icon in the menu heading of the mail window. You can set up a whole range of colors and file away to your heart’s content. Personally I prefer the use of folders which can be synched across your desktop computers (I have three of them) and your iPhone/iTouch through MobileMe.

By: Allister

Allister — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:43:41 +0000

Couldn’t be simpler.

Yes it could. There are (at least) three fundamental sections in the sidebar. “Mailboxes”, “On My Mac” and then any IMAP accounts’ folders. Why are my IMAP folders and the associated inbox not in the same place?

In, e.g. Thunderbird, everything for an account is in one place. As it should be.

By: PB

PB — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:31:09 +0000

I’ve briefly tried Mail but couldn’t understand how it was treating multiple accounts. It seemed to want to combine the inboxes which seems odd.

Hit the little toggle arrow to the left of the inbox and it shows you all the accounts and mail in them. Couldn’t be simpler.

By: Leonard

Leonard — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:24:46 +0000

I hate when people say “Mail.app”.

By: Allister

Allister — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:21:02 +0000

I use Gmail now, with IMAP on my iPhone as a secondary access method. I’ve briefly tried Mail but couldn’t understand how it was treating multiple accounts. It seemed to want to combine the inboxes which seems odd.

But the number one feature that Mail lacks is also lacking in Gmail – thread by *reference*. It is the only real form of threading and it amazes me how it seems to have fallen by the wayside.

As for tagging, I pretty much only use Gmail’s labels for organising unread email so I can decide what types of email to catch up on first.

By: kgravis

kgravis — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:27:13 +0000

After an extensive comparison of mail clients across OS X, Windows, and Linux, my entire company migrated to Google Apps. Gmail kicked all their asses.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:46:33 +0000

I want to see my inbox broken up temporally, the way Outlook 2007 does it. I want to see the emails I received today/yesterday/the day before/last/week/last month/older broken up, rather than having one giant list of 1000 emails.

I don’t sort emails into folders for a reason, I don’t have that hard a time finding them, and once they’re more than a month old I rarely ever need them.

By: Gary R Boodhoo

Gary R Boodhoo — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:59:02 +0000

my own usage of email has become very google-centric. In a sense, gmail has become an alternate front end to maps, docs, chat, notebook and calendar (technically search also, for that targeted advertising!)

The question of how to manage and edit relationships between email threads plus these additional systems is a significant one. Its a form of datamining I suppose, one which has outgrown the limits of hierarchical trees and tag nomenclatures

By: PB

PB — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:42:20 +0000

SequimRealEstate,

Write your e-mail template until satisfied. Copy it. Create a new signature in preferences and paste it in there. Next time you want to use it, select the signature from the signatures pop up list. That’s it.