Archive for the 'Mail' Category

Crappy e-mail from the iTunes Music Store

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 • 9:47 am

Plain-text e-mail is becoming less and less viable as an alternative to HTML formatted e-mail.

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Mail 2.0: A 100%-reproducible way to make e-mail messages disappear altogether

Thursday, January 19th, 2006 • 2:34 pm

A bad bug in multithreaded Mail 2.0 which causes messages to disappear altogether, with no chance of recovery!

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Mail 2.0: ‘0 messages, 3 unread’

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005 • 6:26 pm

When Mail’s multi-threading is thrown in the user’s face, in a bad way.

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Mail 2.0: ‘Undo Mark as Junk’ doesn’t undo anything

Sunday, December 18th, 2005 • 4:36 pm

An ‘Undo’ command that simply does not work.

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Mail in Mac OS X 10.4.3: Signed, encrypted, delivered

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005 • 10:36 am

There might be hope for e-mail encryption for the rest of us after all.

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Mail 2.0: Takes long time to create reply when network connection is busy

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005 • 11:50 am

When you want to reply to a message with an attachment and your Internet connection is saturated, Mail 2.0 takes a long time to open the reply window.

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Mail 2.0: Ugly redrawing glitch

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 • 11:57 am

Ugly glitch when inserting an attachment at the bottom of an e-mail reply.

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Mail 2.0: Should include minimum font size setting for HTML e-mail messages

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 • 1:52 pm

A missing feature in Mail when it comes to rendering HTML-formatted e-mail messages.

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

Monday, October 3rd, 2005 • 9:48 am

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

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

Thursday, September 29th, 2005 • 12:15 pm

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

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

Thursday, September 29th, 2005 • 10:49 am

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

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

Thursday, September 15th, 2005 • 2:48 pm

Inconsistent behaviour in Mail when copying and pasting quoted text.

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

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005 • 2:21 pm

Annoying interference between two attachment-related commands in Mail.

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

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005 • 6:12 pm

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

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

Thursday, August 4th, 2005 • 11:28 am

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

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