Re: Mail.app

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From: Steven Smolinski
Subject: Re: Mail.app
Date: 03:13 on 13 Oct 2005

On 12-Oct-05, at 6:52 PM, Robert Spier wrote:

>     That Mail.app tool is quite nifty.  It syncs mail fast and
>     accurately

Umm, not quite.  If you use IMAP, Mail seems to think it is the only  
MUA that ever talks to your IMAP folders.

If you delete messages out of (the middle of) an IMAP mailbox with  
some other MUA, sometimes Mail.app will decide to keep it's cached  
copy of the headers, including the deleted ones.  If you click on one  
of the deleted ones, it brings up the mail that's in that INDEX in  
the IMAP mailbox, even though it doesn't match the cached headers in  
Mail.

And re-syncing doesn't make it realize it has the wrong headers!

And deleting the already-deleted entry in Mail deletes whatever  
proper email was in that INDEX in the IMAP mailbox.

Stupid, hateful software.

Steve

There's stuff above here

Mail.app Robert Spier 23:52 on 12 Oct 2005
- Re: Mail.app Nicholas Clark 00:04 on 13 Oct 2005
- Steven Smolinski 03:13 on 13 Oct 2005
- Peter da Silva 05:58 on 13 Oct 2005
  - A. Pagaltzis 07:51 on 13 Oct 2005

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