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Mail 2.0: Should be smarter about sending attachments to Outlook users

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

A long-standing problem with Mac OS X’s Mail and Microsoft Outlook, which Apple should really do something about.

Mail 2.0: ‘Rich Text’ button displays wrong alert message

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

A rather embarrassing bug with plain text/rich text formatting in Mail 2.0.

Mail 2.0: Shift-Down extends selection by one line plus the first character of the next line

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Yet another unwanted behaviour when dealing with quoted text in Mail 2.0.

Mail 2.0: Copied text with two levels of quoting is pasted with quoting

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

Inconsistent behaviour in Mail when copying and pasting quoted text.

Mail 2.0: ‘Attach File…’ and ‘Save Attachments…’ dialog boxes use same sort order

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

Annoying interference between two attachment-related commands in Mail.

Mail 2.0: ‘Quit Mail’ command not disabled when ‘Attach File’ dialog box is open

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

A weird delayed quitting behaviour in Mail, and more general considerations about the semi-modal “Open File” dialog box in Mac OS X applications.

Mail 2.0: Column sort order in search results affects sort order in main message list

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

The sort order of search results impacts the search order of the Inbox.

Mail 2.0: Dead space between button icon and text label

Monday, August 1st, 2005

About a space between button icons and button text labels that is not part of the buttons.

Mail 2.0: Search results disappear after messages are moved

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Experimenting with Mail 2.0’s search feature causes a complete break-down.

Mail 2.0: Can’t drag-and-drop to ‘Subject’ line until it’s been selected

Monday, July 18th, 2005

More weirdness in Mac OS X’s Mail 2.0. Open an existing message in a separate window. Then compose a new message in another window. Don’t do anything after you’ve created the new message. Just leave it the way it is, with the cursor in the “To:” field by default. Now go to the other message […]

Mail 2.0: Strange selection behaviour

Monday, July 18th, 2005

Try the following. Open an existing message in a new window, click on the body of the message and select some text there. Then without holding any modifier keys, move your mouse pointer to the header section and select some text there. Note that this does not deselect the text that’s currently selected in the […]

Mail 2.0: Mouse pointer behaviour and vertical scroll bar in window of message being composed

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

What is wrong with this picture? Quite simply, it’s the fact that my mouse pointer is over the corner of the window, which is a control that can be dragged to resize the window. Yet the mouse pointer is still an “I-beam” type of cursor, which absolutely no indication that this area of the window […]

Mail 2.0: Fails to select next message after deleting thread

Friday, July 8th, 2005

This is yet another example of the lack of polish that still plagues Mac OS X’s Mail application. It affects people who, like me, use Mail without the message preview area in the bottom half of the main viewer window. When I want to read a message, I select it in my Inbox and then […]

Mail 2.0: Cause of invalid vertical scroll bar status

Thursday, July 7th, 2005

A few weeks ago, I noted a problem with the visual interface in Tiger’s Mail, where the vertical scroll bar in the main viewer window would be active with a blue scroller indicating the presence of stuff below the visible area, even though there was nothing beyond the visible area, with the message list stopping […]

Spotlight and Mail 2.0: Message searching with or without message preview pane

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

I am a long-time Mail user but, ever since I switched to it from Eudora back in 2002, I have maintained the habit of using it without the message preview pane. In other words, my main viewer window in Mail has the list of mailboxes on the left-hand side and then the message list area, […]