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Comment by dimgl | Hacker News Reader

Mail.app is fine for me... What am I missing in an email client that Mail.app doesn't provide?

From the article:

"[...] it’s buggy and crashy, it needs to update my email library every few months when I open it (why does my email need a library?), and it lacks any sort of innovative feature set (or even support for things like snoozing)."

And yet none of us seem to see those issues.

I can remember mail.app needing to rebuild a mailbox to a new format maybe twice or three times, since probably 2008.

1 person saying "x is buggy and crashes" doesn't mean much without actual descriptions of the problem.

I mean, if you like Mail.app, use Mail.app. I'm not here to tell you that you should change how you read your email if you're satisfied with it. I was pithy in the Mail.app section because the article was already shaping up to be quite long and I just sort of assume everyone in the Apple ecosystem has used Mail.app at least a bit and knows its strengths and shortcomings already.

> knows its strengths and shortcomings already.

I've used mail.app since I've used OS X, and I wouldn't describe any version I've used as particularly "buggy" or "crashy"

Not to pile on, but Mail.app has seemed the most predictable and consistently performing (with search and basic usage) of all of the clients I have used, including most of those mentioned in the article.

I realize this is just one data point, but as unpopular as your perspective is, stephenr, I share it.

I agree. Mail.app works perfectly for me. It does what it stated it was going to do, provide a simple interface on top of 'pine' like functionality/usability. I have multiple email accounts and have a solid preference for POP3 over IMAP. I've been using email since the early 1980's and operate on multiple machines (Laptop, Workstation, iPhone, etc.) without issue.

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