Mail in Mountain Lion is a shambles. Rules do not work. If I receive a mail on one account, when I reply it defaults to my personal mac account, not the account under which the mail was received. I'm switching to Postbox until Apple sorts out Mail. The Mail client should at least be on a par with operating system - it's not; it's currently sub-standard and unusable in a professional context using multiple mail accounts.
If you use google mail for your multiple id's and then bring that into a single apple account, that seems to work. Also gives you much better control of spam.
IMHO Mac/Apple Mail is the worst program ever written for anything. Always has been and from what I see in these forums still is and will be in the future.
How do rules not work? They're working fine here.
Regarding the mail replying problem, are the messages that are giving you trouble stored in a mailbox associated with the account that received them? If so, something's wrong on your system. However, there has been a change to how Mail composes replies... if you have moved those messages to an "On My Mac" mailbox, Mail will reply using the account specified in the "Send new messages from" setting in the Composing pane of Mail's preferences.
does this setting need to be looked at? I keep my setting at a default email rathen than a selected mailbox? But fool around with this setting.
I would also eliminate any rules you have.
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Shootist007 wrote:
IMHO Mac/Apple Mail is the worst program ever written for anything. Always has been and from what I see in these forums still is and will be in the future.
I disagree. There are many email cliets availabe. I have used them all. Alll have some features over the other, but I prefer the most using Mail. I am not one for cartoons, I like Mail because it is simple, effecient, and exactly what I need. What email client do you use?
Thomas A Reed wrote:
How do rules not work? They're working fine here.
Regarding the mail replying problem, are the messages that are giving you trouble stored in a mailbox associated with the account that received them? If so, something's wrong on your system. However, there has been a change to how Mail composes replies... if you have moved those messages to an "On My Mac" mailbox, Mail will reply using the account specified in the "Send new messages from" setting in the Composing pane of Mail's preferences.
Perhaps the disk permissions need to be repaired? (see pic)
As for moving mail "onto your mac" this is more of a method to archive, organize or collect. I would avoid using this and only use the mailbox at top.
Also you might want to delete then re add your accounts here:
I thought of that, but seems like a long way round to solve what should be an easy solve for Apple.
I complained about Mail in Mountain Lion, but like other people I have used all the alternatives and Mail comes out on top every time. It's just this Mountain Lion version that's bugging me.
Thanks for this, I'll explore and try out some of those suggestions.
It's very intermittent.....some rules work seamlessly and drop the incoming mail straight in it's correct folder, others hang about in the in box until I run Apply Rules (in the Messages menu); others simply sit in the in box, defy Apply Rules (even though there is a rule) and it usually means deleting the existing rule and creating a new one to make it work.
Others have noted that the "reply from" gets screwed up when replying to emails that have been moved to a folder by a rule. If the emails have been moved manually, or are in the inbox, then replying is from the correct email address.
This sounds like a bug, but I don't see it because I do all my mail filtering on the server side.
My mail RULES also do not work since" upgrading" to ML.
They all worked perfectly in Lion.
Tried deleting and re-creating them and they still do not work.
doesn't work for me either... Will Apple fix this problem by giving us an update ?
What's meant by bringing all gmail accounts into one apple account? I can't imagine the mayhem replying to separate gmail accounts from one apple account - huh?
Thanks in advance...
The current version is abysmal but, in Apple's defence, I never had one problem with it in the 11 years I had my eMac. I've spent an hour on the phone with Apple Support today and, just as it looked as if they'd sorted all my problems, it's as bad as ever. What I am annoyed about is Apple's head-in-the-sand attitude to the problems in mail. They are in complete denial that there is a problem with the current version of mail and have insisted that the problems I've encountered can be fixed.
For the record, my own experiences include the following:
Slow downloading and delivery of messages.
Sent messages not appearing in the sent folder.
Phantom messages, i.e., the Activity bar showing that a message is downloading but none appears in any folder (or the trash).
Messages reappearing in my draft folder up to an hour after they were sent.
Mail application taking two or three minutes to close when I quit out of it.
What is really frustrating is that these problems are intermittent and so each time I call Apple Support the advisor thinks he's sorted the problem only for it to reappear again almost the minute I hang up. As a Mac user for over 20 years I expect better from Apple. We pay a premium to use Macs so the least we should expect is that they run smoothly.
Mail in Mountain Lion is a shambles.
