Mail, what happened to the "sending" folder?

[dogbone]

I sort of remember when I used version 1 of mail that when I sent a big file the sent folder would change to 'sending' and I could see the file with it's spinning wheel.

BUT

When I use Mail 2 and send a big file it looks like it completely disappears. There is no 'sending box' and in fact I can't even find the file. It goes into a limbo. It's only after that it eventually gets sent when I hear the mail sent sound that it appears in the "sent" folder.

Is this normal or this there something funny (peculiar) going on?

 

[mad jew]

Yeah, it's normal. Not cool, but normal. Hopefully they'll change it back though.

 

[dogbone]

Oh OK that's disappointing but good to know. I had to send some biggish files via email (about 9 Mb) and my email server gets a bit frantic when the files near 10 Mb. Sometimes they come back undeliverable after a couple of days.

I was panicking for a while not knowing if they were sent or went into the undeliverable slot or what.

This must surely rate as the most moronic *new feature* ever put into any email client anywhere. What the hell were they smoking when they came up with this bright idea.

 

[Nermal]

Not the same, but Window > Activity Viewer should show the upload progress.

 

[dogbone]

Thanks Nermal,

I didn't know about the viewer that helps a lot. Funnily enough I'm just testing it out now and I'm sending the same big file I was trying to send earlier to day to my gmail account and this time the 'sent' folder has turned into a 'sending' folder as it used to do...