Please Apple, we want Mac Mail to how it was pre-Mavericks, its still broken!
Published: December 17, 2013
Tags: efficiency
I used official channels, support channels, back channels, I tried everything, waited for bug fixes patiently and NONE of them worked (bug fix 1, and yesterdays 10.9.1 Mac update). Its no use. Mac Mail IS NOT compatible with Google Apps. Well, at least with moving, archiving, and labels (which is a pretty damn big part of Google Apps if you ask me). Mailbox is still having the same issues it had. Please, I am done with this. Why am I still trying? I love Mac Mail (and hate it at the same time…). Check an entire thread on Apple Forums on the Mac Mail problem.
Mac Mail is the best email client on the web, and let me tell you why: I have 30 GB of email on Google Apps, and thats quite a lot of email (actually the previous limit was 25 GB, and I was lucky because the week I hit 25 GB Google allowed just buying more space, yeeah!). That was until the Mavericks (Damn you Mavericks, I would have NEVER updated you, I am thinking of actually downgrading from Mavericks and never installing another update again – thats how far badly this update has gone for Mac mail).
Whats broken?
- Moving messages (it blinks through so many times, happens sporadically)
- Archiving
- Inbox behavior – weird counts, brutally delayed synchronization
On the last version, it worked JUST fine!
Basically since the launch of Mavericks, people have been complaining about Mac Mail.
Screenshot from the same time, absolutely inconsistent mailbox (rebuild, synchronize, get new mail, even waiting for a LONG time connected doesn’t work anymore):
I even installed the update, it didnt do anything. Please, Apple, I am hopeless. Just RETURN it to the way it was before Mavericks.
Parameters: I have 30 GB of email (but ready to even archive some old ones, but since Mavericks, I have to have ALL MAIL turned on, so I would really have to DELETE old mail, which I am certainly not ready to do), I am a heavy Google Apps user. It takes a week or two for Mac Mail to download and sync my entire account (not to mention the true activity on the progress is not really reflected / true… Especially downloading new email is frustrating as you dont know whats what.
For more on how I set up my email and manage tips and labels, check out this article.
See some comments from the Apple thread on the recent update, that was obviously not a working update for anyone really…
