Mail...

Welliwelliwelliwelliwell, what have we here my droogs, an application called Mail eh? Well, let me tell you about it. It is an ok email package, but with some irritating shortcommings.

First of all, why can't I within the Mail application itself add to the address book email recipients? I actually have to start the Address Book application in order to add email recipients. Even Outlook Express and every other known application I've ever tried have allowed the user to add recipients to the Address Book.

Another thing that makes it hard to determine which email is unread and new, is that the message in the message list isn't in bold, but instead it has a dot at the beginning of the row indicating that it is new or unread. It is much easier to determine the status of the email message if it is listed in bold.

My third and final irritation with this application is, that I can't find anywhere to close the preview window. I don't want to open up spam email messages, I want to delete them, not read their contents.

My verdict for the Mail application is that Apple need to correct these irritating shortcommings. Somehow I don't really like the Mail application. Maybe Thunderbird would be better. I will give it a try a couple of days more, but if I grow more irritated with Mail, I will switch to Thunderbird.