<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 4, 2014, at 1:56 PM, catsoul <<a href="mailto:catsoul@thinkplan.org">catsoul@thinkplan.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">Thunderbird might not be quite as sexy as Mail.app, nor as nicely-integrated to other OS X things, but it seems to be trusty.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>forgot to add that, under Lion, Mail.app had a show-stopping problem counting email. Tiger Mail.app got it right, SnowLeopard Mail.app got it right, and any version of Thunderbird under any version of OS X got it right.</div><div><br></div><div>the discrepancy was in the neighborhood of thousands, but really any mistake is unacceptable. It "knew" there were thousands more; it simply wouldn't download/display them. I say it "knew," because it would throw out the correct number while downloading after being re-configured, but after that process was done, the total emails shown was thousands less than were on the server. IMAP.</div><div><br></div><div>So snarky and time-gobbling was this problem, they gave me a free iPod nano for all the horsing around we did.</div><div><br></div><div>Mt. Lion appeared to fix the mail count problem.</div><div><br></div><div>is it really *that* hard to make an email program?</div><div><br></div><div>cat</div></body></html>