10.4.7 and Mail.app
The latest OS update is out.
According to the technical notes 
, 10.4.7 offers Mail.app users the following new features and bugfixes:
- Updates Help links within Mail alert messages so you are linked to useful content instead of a “No pages with your search words were found” page.
- Resolves a sync alert issue that could appear if Mail accounts were in different order on the different Macs that you were syncing.
- The Mail POP account option to “Remove copy from server after retrieving a message…” is no longer turned off after performing a sync with .Mac.
- POP accounts you create will no longer begin with the “Remove copy from server after retrieving a message…” preference setting turned off.
- Redirecting message to only a BCC: address no longer redirects the message to the original To: recipients as well.
- Improves results when retrieving IMAP messages with attachments over unreliable connections.
- Mail now supports connecting to mail servers through a SOCKS proxy. [Potential problems here]
Users with POP accounts should note the changes carefully.
I’m looking forward to seeing how that second last one pans out.
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June 28th, 2006 at 9:13 am
The thing that interests me most is the SOCKS proxy support. That might provide a solution for me WRT using Mail.app while I’m at work. Unfortunately, since I can’t find anything in the account settings to tell Mail to use the proxy, I’m assuming I need to define it globally in System Prefs (which kind of sucks).
Ah well…
June 28th, 2006 at 10:30 am
Over here, praying for:
- Adding of “read/unread” message status within smart mailboxes
- Fixing the always present “ghost messages” that smart mailboxes tend to accumulate (x# of new messages but when you click on the mailbox they dissapear)
- Would be really nice to have fully integrated iCal / tagging support ala MailTags
- And giving us the option to kill the reply line with the name and date of the person you’re responding to.
June 28th, 2006 at 7:10 pm
The annoying “don’t show the only IMAP sub-mailbox if there’s only one” bug appears to have been fixed. I’m really hoping for improved IMAP performance.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Argh! I hate when mail clients do that. Say I’m experimenting with different clients and haven’t decided on one. Or say I want to keep messages on the server as a form of backup. Deleting user data without asking is terrible.
Besides flipping this default behavior back the other way, I’d like a way to remove individual messages from the server, like Eudora has always had.
June 29th, 2006 at 3:24 am
Andy:
Use Command-I to Get Info, choose the account, select the Messages on Server pane, highlight the individual messages, and click on the Remove From Server button.
Finally, pause for breath and admire how easy Apple has made it…
June 30th, 2006 at 2:42 am
Mail.app still confuses me and my colleagues as it tends to split any message I sent into smaller pieces, when there are attachments to the message.
That is all the most stange, as I have explicitely asked Mail.app to use text (and not RTF) as the default format for messages.
Please advise
Phil