Mail management and best practice - why is mail so neglected as a tool?!
Hello,
I've been using Mail as my primary email management app forever. I have my work and personal accounts in there (coming from Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo! and Apple). While looking at my hard disk storage it became obvious that Mail takes ups a huge amount of space. This is probably because of all the work attachments.
I've flirted with using Outlook (especially for work related stuff). In Outlook it is possible to 'remove' an attachment. When you do so the file is deleted at the server level (no good if you have already downloaded in Mail), but the attachment name is left in the email. So assuming the attachment has been diligently saved somewhere it is always possible to track down the attachment from the body of the email if needed. I think this seems a very sensible way of keeping on top of disk storage (especially when files often do get downloaded and stored separately any way so you end up with multiple copies).
Is there a feature like this for mail? I tend to use Mail as my go to for revisiting previous discussions and having the ability to go back to attachments is really important - the only way currently to reduce the size of Mail is to delete the individual emails in their entirety - it's the attachments that are the problem, not the text in the email which I'd like to hang on to.
Just as a general observation I note that Apple spends a tom of time and money developing all kinds of need things like animate Memojis and the like. I would like to bet that any serious business user of Apple products will use three or four applications more than anything else on a daily basis (guess what Memojis is not one of them!!). In particular Mail. Why has this app not been given more love and attention given it is probably my most use App ever?!
Anyone see feel the same?
Best,
Nick
PS In trying to associate this post with a topic I note that Mail isn't even listed!?