Lee, I know this isn’t any help to you, but I’m using Mavericks and Apple Mail and I am not having the problems you are, so maybe there is some other interaction going on in your system that’s causing these glitches. I don’t use Gmail and numbers 5 and 6 don’t apply to my setup, so I can really only talk about points 1 and 2, both of which are working fine for me, as far as I can determine.
Dan > I’m finally ready to give up on Apple's mail. Since the Mavericks upgrade, it > has become unreliable. Here are some of the problems I see all the time with > version 7.1 (1827) of Mail under OS X 10.9.1. > > > (1) This morning I sent a several emails, but none of them are cached in the > Sent mailbox. A search of the machine finds them nowhere. In fact, none of > the many emails I sent yesterday afternoon can be found in the Sent mailbox. > All the sent mail since 9:32 yesterday morning has vanished. > > (2) The smart mailboxes regularly lose count of unread messages. I have > several smart mailboxes right now showing two unread messages when there are > actually none. I've tried rebuilding mailboxes and marking all the messages > as read. I've even gone so far as to delete the mailboxes and recreate them > and even kill the plist files. The problems return. The worst is the VIP > smart mailbox that's hard-wired into Mail. My VIP mailbox shows five unread > messages with none to read. > > (3) I've had Gmail vanish as I was reading it. > > (4) Mail regularly fails to notice new messages in Gmail. > > (5) Mail regularly gets confused when using secure, authenticated SMTP > servers. It starts asking for the password and will never authenticate. > > (6) Mail won't list all the possible completions from an LDAP server, if > there are more than about a dozen possibilities. (This may be a Contacts > problem.) > > > Oddly, Mail on iOS doesn't have these problems. I've started using my iPad to > read Gmail. > > So … are there better alternatives? It seems that Apple has sucked the air > out of the email developers by shipping a free product. I've tried > Thunderbird and find it klunky. Sparrow looked promising, but was bought by > Google and development has ceased. MailForge is a Eudora clone and seems to > be dead in the water. > > Unless I find something better, I'll move on to Thunderbird. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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