I've given up on Jaguar's Mail program, as it simply would not stop playing silly games with concatenating folder names all over the place. According to Thom, Mail works well in Panther, the new version of OS X. I'll wait until then.
In the meantime, this laptop spent all afternoon compiling and installing Pine 4.58 while I got on with other things. In the process of moving my mail across to pine, I discovered some very unpleasant behaviour by OS X.
Given a directory called "mail" on my local machine, running a secure recursive copy of a directory called "Mail" from another machine onto here behaves case-insensitively - that is, the contents of the remote "Mail" were put in the local "mail". I'm sorry, but that's NOT sensible behaviour! Subtract 50 kudos points from Apple for that, go to jail, do not pass go.
Another lovable glitch I discovered was that if in Printer Preferences you tell OS X not to list networked printers, it doesn't give you a list of printers connected to your laptop, it gives you no printers at all. And nukes currently-printing jobs. The only way I got things back to normal was to conceed to listing all network printers, and to reboot.
I hope Apple get the powerbooks here soon, before I find more reasons not to bother switching and to cancel the order :-(
Posted by savs at November 4, 2003 6:28 PMMulberry remains the best damn mail client I've ever used - on Windows, Linux, and Mac - http://www.cyrusoft.com - commercial, but low cost.
Posted by: Mark Derricutt at November 4, 2003 11:32 PM