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Mail On Mac Is Awful.

EarlofCroydon

EarlofCroydon

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Jun 4, 2010
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Just a quick rant to express the despondency towards mail in the dock of any mac.

1. You can't add a Yahoo! account unless it is one you pay for
2. It won't send messages with videos in
3. Takes an age to send Keynote presentations
4. Won't let you delete stuff from the Sent box
5. The application crashes a lot.

SOme of these are not general for everyone but I find it very frustrating. Any advice to improve the experience is appreciated since the concept of having email straight on the dock is a good idea. Just poorly executed
 
EarlofCroydon said:
1. You can't add a Yahoo! account unless it is one you pay for
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I don't use Yahoo

2. It won't send messages with videos in
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I send videos all the time

3. Takes an age to send Keynote presentations
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Never tried

4. Won't let you delete stuff from the Sent box
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I delete from the Sent box all the time

5. The application crashes a lot.
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Never crashes for me

Sounds like you have other issues with your system
 
EarlofCroydon said:
1. You can't add a Yahoo! account unless it is one you pay for
2. It won't send messages with videos in
3. Takes an age to send Keynote presentations
4. Won't let you delete stuff from the Sent box
5. The application crashes a lot.
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Number 5 is the only potentially legitimate point in your list.

Number 1 is Yahoo's decision, beyond Apple's control.
Number 2 is incorrect.
Number 3 is a function of your internet bandwidth, not Apple Mail specifically.
Number 4 is incorrect.

I haven't experienced a large number of crashes, but if you are then perhaps that's a problem with Apple Mail's stability.
 
EarlofCroydon said:
1. You can't add a Yahoo! account unless it is one you pay for
2. It won't send messages with videos in
3. Takes an age to send Keynote presentations
4. Won't let you delete stuff from the Sent box
5. The application crashes a lot.
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1. Not Apple's fault.
2. Probably over the attachment size limits.
3. Your ISP is the limiting factor there.
4. Most likely you're using the wrong form of email, try IMAP.
5. It's an application, it like everything, crashes.
 
Then get another. There are more than enough free offers out in the wild of the internet. Gmail, Hotmail, MS Live, Juno.etc.

I use Outlook in the new Mac Office 2011, and it is very good.
 
EarlofCroydon said:
Just a quick rant to express the despondency towards mail in the dock of any mac.

1. You can't add a Yahoo! account unless it is one you pay for
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This is up to Yahoo, which doesn't offer IMAP or POP unless you pay. Nothing to do with Apple Mail.

2. It won't send messages with videos in
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Yes it will.

3. Takes an age to send Keynote presentations
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It will take X seconds to send Y bytes - the bigger the presentation the longer it will take. It's nothing to do with Mail.

4. Won't let you delete stuff from the Sent box
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Yes it will.

5. The application crashes a lot.
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I haven't experienced a crash in Mail since ... I don't know. I've had this Mac for six months and don't have any Mail-related crash logs. It must be an issue with your Mac or set up.
 
Icaras said:
How is this thread even related to the iMac? :confused:
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i dont know, but i assume the OP has an iMac

i am using Mail.
but never have experienced any of the complains above , maybe i have done something wrong if Mail doesn't crash :confused:
 
I'm a heavy mail user- 100s and 100s of emails a day - and have two exchange accounts and my .mac account, send videos frequently and delete things from my sent folder all the time. Only once in 6 years have I had a serious crash - and restoring from a back up sorted that.

Maybe its something else interfering?
 
EarlofCroydon said:
Just a quick rant to express the despondency towards mail in the dock of any mac.

1. You can't add a Yahoo! account unless it is one you pay for
2. It won't send messages with videos in
3. Takes an age to send Keynote presentations
4. Won't let you delete stuff from the Sent box
5. The application crashes a lot.

SOme of these are not general for everyone but I find it very frustrating. Any advice to improve the experience is appreciated since the concept of having email straight on the dock is a good idea. Just poorly executed
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My turn! :D

1. Yahoo control this, not Apple
2. Chances are the email provider you're with has a restriction on size of attachments and your video is too big.
3. Because of the amount of high-quality graphics etc and see #2
4. Does for me.
5. It's fast and works well for me.

With all due respect, every problem seems to be on your end/your providers end.
 
Try thunderbird for mac or Outlook for mac with office 2011, will solve ur problems.


In regards to mail can someone tell me how to make it NOT TO DOWNLOAD all the mail from my Gmail? I have 1,200 messages there, and every time I switch mail app on, it just tries to download them all, I keep cancelling but it still trying.
 
sup3r1or said:
In regards to mail can someone tell me how to make it NOT TO DOWNLOAD all the mail from my Gmail? I have 1,200 messages there, and every time I switch mail app on, it just tries to download them all, I keep cancelling but it still trying.
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No idea - I just left my Mac running for a day or so, and it eventually downloaded everything. Lol. It errored quite a few times in the process, but it all works smoothly now (except it keeps leaving duplicate sent messages in my outbox!).
 
sup3r1or said:
In regards to mail can someone tell me how to make it NOT TO DOWNLOAD all the mail from my Gmail? I have 1,200 messages there, and every time I switch mail app on, it just tries to download them all, I keep cancelling but it still trying.
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isn't this what a mail client is suppose to do? :confused:
 
thats what i thought too , why having a mail client
and not wanting him to get the mail :eek::confused:

but there are solutions
delete your g-mail account from Mail and
look up online your g-mail emails
then Mail will not download anything

or i guess with 1200 emails every day you should setup
the spam functions on g-mail then ,dont know how that works in g-mail ,but i am sure they have something to setup to control the spam , as i assume most of the emails are spam , so then the spam lands in the spam folder and delete the spam regular ,no point of letting it build up as with 1200 per day times 365 days a year your g-mail account will burst soon , thats actually why the spam folder was setup for so spam goes in there , but you need to set rules in g-mail for what is spam and whats not
so you only get the emails you want or need !! Mail does only its job getting the mails from your g-mail account, it doesn't decide whats spam or not , thats all done by g-mail , and if you let it overflow and don't setup rules for spam there, then its not the fault of Mail .....its yours
 
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