[MlMt] Apple Mail refugee, help feeling comfortable?

[Charlie Clark]

On 31 Jan 2026, at 20:22, Jason Rosenbaum wrote:

> Hi folks, recent refugee from Apple Mail here and looking for some 
> guidance. Hoping to make MailMate my daily driver and subscribe to 
> support if it all works for me. I've searched the mailing list 
> archives a bit but having trouble coming up with some features and 
> ways of working that I'm used to. Apologies for the random smattering 
> of questions, I can split them up into different threads if that's 
> better.

Hi Jason,

I reckon people will probably choose which things they want to answer 
on.

> I'm having some issues with URL and email parsing in message bodies 
> when reading. URLs written in plain text (or in HTML email but 
> outputted as text) are only sometimes clickable. I think it might have 
> to do with lines -- the first URL in a given line turns into a 
> clickable link when reading but subsequent ones don't, though maybe I 
> have that wrong. Similar for emails, I'd like them to turn into 
> clickable mailto: links, but they don't seem to. Is it possible to 
> change the way message text is parsed or customize it at all?

Sounds like the e-mails may be coming from something with hard 
line-breaks as opposed to quoted-printable, but you'd need to look at 
individual e-mails. And it does depend on the part – I have MailMate 
set to show me the text/plain part by default and a **lot** of e-mails 
with URLs are terrible at text/plain.

> Thread view seems great! But I seem to have issues with it.
>
> First, when I open a thread inline with the right arrow key, it only 
> opens the next "level" of the thread. Is there a way to get right 
> arrow to open the entire thread inline? Is there a different keyboard 
> shortcut to do that?

Hold down alt when clicking.

> Threads are also not sorted in the way my inbox is sorted (newest up 
> top) -- can thread ordering be reversed or match the overall inbox 
> ordering? (This goes for "thread view" as well, there is no sorting 
> options there, can that be changed?)

I'm not sure I'd want a different sort order for threads than I would 
for e-mail in the view.

> When I open a thread (either in thread view or inline), I'd like the 
> next unread conversation to be selected, so I can easily read it. Is 
> that an option or keyboard shortcut?

This sounds very much like you've actually come from Newsnet. You might 
think about running multiple MailMate windows to get what you want. Or 
you start using views (Smart Mailboxes) which you configure to filter 
and sort just as you want.

> Is there a way to read all messages in a thread in one window? 
> Pressing return on a thread only opens up the first message. I know I 
> can open multiple messages by selecting them all and pressing return. 
> Is there a way that if I'm on a thread it would automatically open all 
> on return or some other keyboard shortcut like Apple Mail's opening of 
> all messages in a thread behavior?

Have you tried correspondence view? This gives you another pane with 
related e-mail to whichever e-mail you're looking at, useful because 
many e-mail clients break threads by ignoring them.

> Typing in the To: field is often very slow (10 sec beach ball of death 
> stall). I think it's because it's trying to load and cache all the 
> typeahead options from contacts, sent mail, etc... After loading once 
> it's good and fast for a bit (while it's cached I'm guessing) and then 
> it's slow again. This was never an issue in Apple Mail. How can I 
> speed it up here?

I think this has come up a few times in the past. Normally, MailMate has 
very fast autocomplete but I think there are some situations where it 
can slow down.

> Is MailMate open source or can folks contribute? I'd be willing to 
> lend a hand with some of this if I could...

No, it's not open source. I think that's fine, but it would be nice to 
have the documentation open sourced. I think that's where we could 
contribute and benefit from the most.

Charlie

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