[G4] .Mail App

[shopdog]

I see.  Sorry about the misinformation then.

I have Tiger, but have not yet installed it.  I should shortly.

I spoke with Apple tech support recently about email, and the person 
told me that Tiger Mail handled mail differently than Panther Mail--- 
that Tiger Mail handled individual messages, I guess as opposed to 
groups of messages?

Can anyone shed some light on any differences they've noticed between 
Panther Mail and Tiger Mail and they way messages are handled for 
backup reasons or otherwise?  Thanks!

shopdog

On Jun 20, 2005, at 9:16 AM, Tony Gamble wrote:

> shopdog,
>
>     Tim might have been referring to Tiger's Mail.app.  It doesn't 
> seem to use the drawer method anymore, but rather a more traditional 
> tri-pane layout à la Outlook.  Pity... I rather liked the uniqueness 
> of the drawer design.
>
>     I use my Mail the same as you, Tim, with the preview pane below 
> the messages list.  Something I never would have done back in my PC 
> days, since this method significantly raised the risk of catching 
> something being passed along.  Once in a blue moon, I still have to 
> double-click a message to open it in its own window; particularly long 
> messages don't show all in the preview pane (hence the "preview" 
> label, I presume).
>
> Tony
>
>
> On 20-Jun-05, at 9:05 AM, shopdog wrote:
>
>> Tim:
>>
>> You can move the "accounts thingy" to the right side if you want.  
>> Click on the "mailboxes" icon at the top of the main mail window.  
>> That will bring the accounts drawer (a.k.a. "accounts thingy") back 
>> in.  Then if you move the main mail window (the entire window) to the 
>> left, so that it is very close to the left side of the screen, then 
>> click the "mailboxes" icon again, the drawer will open up to the 
>> right.
>>
>> shopdog
>>
>>
>> On Jun 20, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Tim Collier wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Ahhh, see I use the mail app like this:  the accounts thingy on the 
>>> left (can't move it anyway) and a pre-view pane on the right, at the 
>>> top of the preview pane are the email messages.  I can scroll 
>>> through the messages and the content is displayed below.  To me (at 
>>> least) this is the perfect way to view mail.....it's more or less 
>>> the same as Entourage.  The mail app handles .Mac accounts better, 
>>> Entourage syncs slowly and you have to wait for it.  The mail app 
>>> doesn't do this and when I quit, it quits immediately.  In 
>>> Entourage, even after quitting it stays 'alive' cleaning up or 
>>> whatever it's doing....I didn't like this.
>>>
>>> Tim
>>> On Jun 19, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I also vastly prefer Eudora over AppleMail, mainly because 
>>>> navigating around is much easier. In AppleMail it is double-click, 
>>>> read message, close message, double-click to read next message, ad 
>>>> nauseum. In Eudora, you just double click to read the first message 
>>>> and then use a key command (I use Cmd-and the down or up arrow 
>>>> keys) to move to the next message. The previous message is closed 
>>>> and the next one opens. In AppleMail, this only works with the 
>>>> preview pane, while I like to have the complete message open.
>>>>
>>>> Regarding HTML, Eudora gives you the option to use HTML, but HTML 
>>>> should NOT be used in email. ALWAYS USE PLAIN TEXT FOR EMAIL!!!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Exterminate all rational though.
>>>
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