[X4U] Annoying mail UI "feature" (glitch)

[Steve Martin]

What I do is create an "Old Mail" mailbox and dump everything over a  
few months old into that.  Still available for searches, but not a  
mailbox I'll open from day to day.

On May 21, 2005, at 9:53 AM, Kunga wrote:

> Yes. Moreover, in Tiger, the mailbox list is only allowed on the  
> left of the emails list instead of letting us choose our preference  
> for it to be on the right AND, on my 1.25 GHz G4 PowerBook, when  
> choosing a mailbox that has a huge number of unread emails (saving  
> all for future searches - over 72,000 and 24,000) it takes a very  
> long time for the re-indexing or whatever to finally display the  
> updated list - way longer than it ever did in Panther. On by D2 G5  
> it's not a problem either because it's a G5 or because my number of  
> unreads is a much smaller 8,200 and 2800. I really don't like that  
> we can't display mailboxes on the right any more. It is counter  
> intuitive for the mailbox list to be on the left for me. Am I  
> missing something that will let me put the list on the right?
>
> k
>
> On May 20, 2005, at 7:23 AM, John McDaniel wrote:
>
>
>> In versions of Mail.app for Panther and now Tiger, I have always  
>> experienced this annoyance:
>>
>> Mail.app checks for mail and distributes emails to a number of  
>> different folders based upon rules. When I click on a folder, the  
>> upper pane NEVER places the newest mail item at the top of the  
>> view (I'm always set to sort by date; newest at the top) if there  
>> are more messages that the pane can display. I ALWAYS have to  
>> mouse over to the right and nudge the scroll bar to get to the top  
>> of the list.
>>
>> Does everyone else suffer from this? How do such annoying UI  
>> problems persist?
>>
>
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