Betalogue: Two more Mail.app annoyances

At Betalogue, Pierre Igot reports two more annoyances in Apple Mail:

1. Mail 2.0: ?¢‚ǨÀú0 messages, 3 unread?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ — By doing several complicated things at once, he brings Mail.app‘s multi-threading ability to its knees.

   It shouldn’t happen, it shouldn’t be so hard to discover that the app has stalled and it shouldn’t be so difficult to unstick it.

   This leads to some reflections on how Mail.app might be better designed so that things like this are more transparent for average users.

2. Mail 2.0: ?¢‚ǨÀúUndo Mark as Junk?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ doesn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t undo anything — Pierre has an email incorrectly-marked as Junk. If the Junk filter is on automatic, it will move the message to the Junk folder.

   But going to the Junk folder and selecting the message to “un-junk it”, he notes that clicking the “Undo Mark as Junk” option in the Edit menu or selecting “Mark as Not Junk” from the Message menu doesn’t do anything.

   I can’t reproduce this behaviour. When I do this, the message does get “un-junked”. And I guess that Apple Mail’s Spam database is updated in the background, but I agree it would be useful if Mail.app automatically restored the message to the mailbox from whence it came. (like Entourage does…Grrrr!!)

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