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You're in Charge: What would you change about Apple Mail?

Mail iconI'm sure from time to time we all get our gripes about a piece of software we use every day. Lately I've been having mine about Mail, and I started thinking of a few ways I'd really like to see some improvements. I know there are plugins and add-ons and widgets and gidgets, but in my opinion, enhancements usually seem to work better when they're done by the guys who originally made the app.

So in the name of good ol' fashioned coffee talk, I'm bringing the question to you: let's say you're in charge of Apple Mail's development. What would you change, fix or enhance? Is there a bug in need of squashing, or does a plugin need assimilating? Perhaps there's a missing feature you dream of at night? Feel free to share. You never know, someone more important than even TUAW might be listening. I ran a piece like this over on The Unofficial Photoshop Weblog back in September and Adobe's Product Manger of Photoshop stopped by to respond to readers' comments. That was awesome, but I'm not making any guarantees. Just grab a good cup of coffee and let's hear it.
 

I'm sure from time to time we all get our gripes about a piece of software we use every day. Lately I've been having mine about Mail, and I...
 

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G2

Dear developers,

I'd like too to manage the read-receipt request.
I need it for my job. IT IS useful.

Thank you! :-)

December 29 2005 at 4:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ted Pavlic

The only reason I don't switch to Apple Mail is because it does not pay attention to my IMAP folder subscriptions. All other IMAP clients allow me to subscribe and unsubscribe from folders. Not only is this useful for me to hide old archived folders or not-often-used folders, but it allows me to subscribe to group feeds distributed over the IMAP server without having to get ALL of them.

Yet the only way I can "unsubscribe" in Apple Mail is by installing a local Perl IMAP proxy that filters my IMAP connection, and that's a real hack of a solution. This should be better integrated into Apple Mail.

December 28 2005 at 2:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alan Ullman

Apple Mail 2 needs the ability to get "receipts" for messages that have been received or opened. There was a 3rd party add-on for Mail 1, but it doesn't work with v.2.

December 27 2005 at 10:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark

How can you sync your AOL calender to your ipod?

December 26 2005 at 9:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ben Campbell

Better control over S/MIME certificates. In particular, the ability to inspect the certificate with which a received message was signed, and the ability to select which certificate you sign with or encrypt to when more than one candidate exists in the keychain. (Or, if these things are currently possible, the method should be more obvious.)

December 02 2005 at 10:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
masterw00tfoo

It would be really nice to have some default text formatting for emails apart from how mail handles replies and forwarding. I have a couple people I support that ask me for this all the time. It is a hassle to manually select a profile for every email sent.

November 30 2005 at 4:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
goialo

have had those options in the past (very distant past with CE Software's Inbox), but this should be possible without a server based mail center. http://www.referaty10.com/referat/Zivotopisy/2/Zivotopisy3.php http://www.referaty10.com/referat/Zivotopisy/1/Zivotopisy3.php http://www.referaty10.com/referat/Zivotopisy/2/Zivotopisy2.php

November 29 2005 at 7:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jim Scott

When the 10.4.3 updated killed the newsreader client in Office v.X Entourage, I spent a good bit of energy trying to find another OS X newsreader. Right now I'm using Firefox, but I'm not liking it very much. Why doesn't Mail have a newsreader client? What's Apple got against newsreaders? And why doesn't .Mac include a newsgroup server? That certainly would make it worth the annual fee for me, and would make my online experience more user-friendly as an iMac owner.

November 16 2005 at 10:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Evgeny Kazakov

I would like that hitting the Zoom button of the message window would smart resize the window rather then just expand it to a full screen.

November 16 2005 at 2:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dag

Support for e-mail addresses with international characters both before and after the @-sign in the address. Support for IDN domain names in e-mail addresses, both sending to and viewing. Better spam filtering. Spam filtering can never be good enough. Better handling of IMAP mailboxes with 15000+ emails inside.

November 16 2005 at 10:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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