[MlMt] Apple Mail refugee, help feeling comfortable?

[Jason Rosenbaum]

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.

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?

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?

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?)

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?

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?

Is there a keyboard shortcut to go to the next or previous message in a 
thread when in the message reading window? Thinking of how I can mimic 
Apple Mail's thread reading view, where all previous and next messages 
are just a scroll away.

Thread view often missed parts of a thread, like if I've replied, I 
don't see my reply there, though I do see the reply icon saying I did in 
fact reply. Sometimes it works, but sometimes not. Why is it 
inconsistent?

How do I see and edit all keyboard shortcuts? I feel like I'm missing a 
lot of features.

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?

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

And overall, any advice from former Apple Mail users who actually liked 
the way Apple Mail worked, it just didn't reliably sync with big IMAP 
inboxes? Any recommended setup or customizations to make me feel at 
home?

Thanks all!




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Jason Rosenbaum

Email/GChat: seminal at theseminal.com
Cell: 914.806.1939
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