Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in macOS

Re:Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in ... by defnotashton2 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @11:06AM (#23361682)

Reading the people that put up with it why? What's wrong with thunderbird?

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Re:Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in ... by Synaesthesia on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:15PM (#23362164)

Mac Mail is a great app IMO. It's full featured and performant, I'm very happy with it. This is pretty much the only issue, and it's only with Gmail.

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Re:Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in ... by jtlowe on Saturday May 30, 2020 @11:18AM (#23361747)

I put up with it because I’ve used Mail for many years without issue until now. Fortunately for me it happens infrequently enough that it’s mildly irritating to me so far. Much less irritating than when I open my MacBook and receive dozens of iMessages at once along with their dings.

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Re:Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in ... by arm on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:07PM (#23362075)

Or MailMate¹.

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¹ — https://freron.com/

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Re:Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in ... by Nextgrid on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:12PM (#23362128)

Mac Mail supports the Exchange proprietary HTTP API, while all the other clients only support IMAP. HTTP is much more efficient and seems more resilient against temporary network issues (due to the lack of a persistent connection).

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Re:Apple Mail randomly becomes the frontmost application in ... by PunksATawnyFill on Saturday May 30, 2020 @11:35AM (#23361855)

Thunderbird sucks because, last time I checked, it had no way to copy or propagate filters between machines. Deal-breaker right there.

I’d be happy to hear that was fixed.

Meanwhile, SpamSieve makes Mail tolerable.

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