Magic Mailboxes

https://techreflect.net/2020/03/20/magic-mailboxes/

by NaOH • 6 years ago

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gshdg2• 6 years ago

FWIW: This is the number one thing I prefer about Apple Mail over almost any other client for handling multiple accounts.

freehunter• 6 years ago

I’ve actually considered switching away from the default mail client partially for this reason. With multiple accounts it’s gotten pretty difficult to see which account received the email, moving multiple screens to see it. And often Apple Mail will get an email to one address but when you hit respond it will try to reply with a different email address. That last one has led to a couple embarrassing moments trying to email clients in a hurry and accidentally replying from my personal account.

It certainly doesn’t work like magic.

dhosek• 6 years ago

I think that this happens if you change the send-with account for a given account (so if account X sends via the Y server, it will have Y's return address). Other than that, I've never had the return address for a reply have anything other than the address of the account it was sent to.

gshdg2• 6 years ago

It used to work like magic.

It also used to show exactly the email address that received the message, not just the account and certainly not just the name. The Catalina rewrite seems to have brought the oversimplification of the iOS UI to desktop along with the data loss bugs.

mappu• 6 years ago

This is a menu option in Thunderbird (hamburger > View > Folders > All/Unified).

Wowfunhappy• 6 years ago

I love this entire blog! I learned about it when another story—about the development of Aperature—was posted to HN a few weeks ago, and I've since read through every post. Great little peak inside of Apple.

I think my favorite, very short story might be: https://techreflect.net/2019/05/30/horsey/

pluckytree• 6 years ago

Thanks, Wowfunhappy person. :) Much more to come. The long ones are too tiring.

miedpo• 6 years ago

Hey all, just so you know, Thunderbird can do this too. View -> Folders -> Unified :)

Magic Mailboxes

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