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Re:How Mavericks ruined Apple Mail for Gmail users by 3JPLW on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @04:52PM (#6601621)
Replace "huge Gmail user" with "huge email user that happens to use Gmail servers as the host" and you can begin to see the trouble. It shouldn't matter which IMAP client you use. If there's trouble in communication between Mail.app and Gmail's IMAP servers, then one of the two parties messed up. If there's a regression in Apple's Mail.app, it is a big deal if you have an established workflow with any piece of software. Likewise if Google is making it harder to use your IMAP client of choice, it's a big deal. Users have established patterns and they're hard to break. Hell, just re-syncing my whole email archive into another client would take days (Google throttles batch downloads aggressively, and I don't always have internet connectivity when I need access to my email archive). Nevermind learning a new user interface.

When software regresses, users will complain.

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Re:How Mavericks ruined Apple Mail for Gmail users by gibwell on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @05:35PM (#6601879)
Google has never had a standard IMAP implementation for Gmail.
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Re:How Mavericks ruined Apple Mail for Gmail users by hnriot on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @04:57PM (#6601668)
I still don't see the trouble. I use imap for work email, because our corporate web mail looks like yahoo circa 2004, but gmail I use chrome, a far better user experience.
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Re:How Mavericks ruined Apple Mail for Gmail users by meric on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @05:31PM (#6601859)
With Gmail, you're limited to seeing mail from one account at a time. With Mail, it coalesces email from all my accounts into one list.
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Re:How Mavericks ruined Apple Mail for Gmail users by hnriot on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:52PM (#6608256)
not at all. gmail can pull from many imap or pop sources.
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Re:How Mavericks ruined Apple Mail for Gmail users by rosser on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @05:01PM (#6601689)
At $work, we use Google Apps. What happens to people in my situation, who were using Mail.app instead of the web interface?
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Re:How Mavericks ruined Apple Mail for Gmail users by hnriot on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:51PM (#6608248)
you use the web app, as previously mentioned
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