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Re:Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To ... by flatline3 on Friday September 14, 2012 @12:35PM (#4522511)
I have no idea what is wrong with Mail or why you wouldn't recommend someone use it.

Mail was Steve Jobs' baby ever since NeXT, and it was built to be used (and useful) internally at NeXT/Apple. It's the best mail client I've ever used, in a sea of extremely poor mail clients.

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Re:Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To ... by tsycho on Friday September 14, 2012 @01:29PM (#4522839)
On my Macbook pro: Mail is horribly slow with my 5gb of Gmail. And searching in Mail is even slower and worse, unreliable.

I have had better luck with Sparrow, but even that has its bouts (its slows down all of a sudden and then comes back, which makes me suspect its doing some background compaction/garbage collection).

Even though I am no longer a huge fan of the Gmail web interface, it still works the fastest.

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Re:Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To ... by flatline3 on Friday September 14, 2012 @01:38PM (#4522902)
I have somewhere between 15-20GB of e-mail in IMAP and Mail is quite responsive, and search is both fast and reliable.

Perhaps it's related to either your specific hardware, gmail, or Mail's support for gmail?

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