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Apple's Redesigned Mail App is Expanding to the Mac — Here's When

Saturn007 said:
Curious about the Mail app on iPhones or the Mac. Does it allow filtering of incoming messages based on user-defined rules? You know a la Thunderbird?

That ability is incredibly useful. I don't find that feature on Mail on the iPad and didn't find it several years back when I tested Mail on the Mac.

Has it ever been added?
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Yes. You can add as many custom “rules” to incoming email as you like, using macOS. I have a rule setup to shunt any incoming iTunes purchase invoices to a dedicated mail folder, for example. I don’t think iOS has an editor for those rules, but they are honoured on iOS as well, once set up.
 
ZeroInspo said:
Speak for yourself bro. This feature was what I needed to switch from Gmail to iCloud. I get unholy amounts of promotional mail, I wouldn’t be able to see my important messages without categories.
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Why not get off of the spam lists?
 
Support for JMAP or the ability to prefer plain text emails (again) would be an actual improvement
 
Their macos mail app is incredibly unreliable. I use it with outlook365 and the mail app will regularly and silently stop updating emails. The workaround is an AppleScript that toggles offline and online every 30 minutes. it will also randomly not send emails; they'll be in sent box, but not on the server. This only happens with apple mail, and yes I've rebuilt the mailbox and the same happens on another mac. I'm not alone with this issue.

You'd think that reliability of a mail client would be top of their list, yet they're chasing some goofy email classification feature that is universally panned.
 
Good to know about it. But I don't think I will be using it as I prefer having a chronological view. Happy that there is an option to turn it off. Besides it might not be working as expected at least initially since Apple Intelligence has just started.
 
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I'm sure that many only use it only because it's bundled with every iOs & Mac purchase. I have never managed to find a good stable App that works across platforms but allows you to store Mail locally on the Mac

I just want to see emails in the order they've been received; hopefully turning this off is global; rather than having to turn off for every folder
 
I've been using Spark's categories for years and cannot do without it. It just make sense to me to see People, Notifications and Newsletters grouped neatly within separate sections. I can also go directly into that section and easily delete all of the newsletters if I choose to do so. Something that would take me much much longer if they were in the Inbox together with other important emails.

That said, Mail's categories are slightly different and they do hide emails from the Inbox which Spark doesn't do. I've never actually liked Mail app and I am not sure if I ever will. :rolleyes:

I also prefer to have all the unread emails always on the top, regardless the date. And as far as I know Spark is the only app that is able to do it.

But unlike some other people with hundreds or thousands unread (!) messages I tend to keep my Inbox clean and down to zero, whenever it is possible.

Just me. ;)
 
I haven't seen it on iPhone yet since I'm from Sweden. But I utterly HATE the feature on Gmail! I categorize my mail with filters, and this feature will be turned off the second I see it.
/$0.02
 
As with iOS, it will be the second thing I disable (the first, the try to get me to install Apple Intelligence) on my Mac.
Another "Squirrel!" feature.
 
Wouldn't be nice to have all those features off by default but available to whoever like them?
 
A true improvement for Mac Mail would be to have a switch in the settings to flip between embedding (inlining) (no attachment UI box) and attaching files (with the attendant box in the message UI for the attachments, so you know what state you’re in).
 
I have never used the Apple Mail app and don't intend to start. Years ago, I used Eudora, and when that ceased to exist, I moved to Thunderbird and haven't looked back. It's very versatile, and best of all is pretty much the same across platforms, so I can use it on MacOS, Linux, and Windows, all of which I use regularly. It also has the ability to access proton mail.
 
Whatever you think about the feature, you have to admit it’s pretty crappy that a huge company like Apple can’t seem to roll out the same features for their own flagship apps on all their devices at the same time. Much smaller app-makers seem to manage it, so it smacks of not caring at all. I wonder if they even use it internally.
 
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Moving to Fastmail, and using their interface cross platform, back in 2012 was one of the best moves I ever made
 
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