Talk:Apple Mail

message: Please do not add the "OS X" only category to this article as the article itself plainly shows why doing so would be inappropriate. Previous versions of Mail.app existed on NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, so Mail not only runs on OS X but on NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP also. The argument that because OS X is related to NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP the category is appropriate is incorrect -- NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP were never created with Mac OS in mind -- Mac OS X was adapted from OPENSTEP and Rhapsody, not the other way around. Dysprosia 05:35, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't even matter -- Mac OS X Mail started at 1.0. It is a new product. --Steven Fisher 06:09, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  It does matter. Just because there's a different version number doesn't mean you can deny that Mail.app is derived from the Mail application in NS/OS -- the article makes this clear. Saying that since Mail.app in OS X is somehow different to Mail.app elsewhere and so deserves to be considered "OS X only" makes very little sense. Dysprosia 08:15, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I don't think the old article supported the NeXT heritage well. Your latest changes resolve my issue with that, though. Good work. Although now we have NeXTSTEP and NEXTSTEP links within a few lines; I'm unsure which to go with. Can you fix that up? --Steven Fisher 15:53, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: OS X category

message: I would like to see a version history similar to what is setup for iSync. Reeves87gmailcom 19:53, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Version history

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Mail Icon.png

message: Here is a good appleinsider article that traces Mail.app's history and includes many screen shots. Maybe this could be added to the external links section. It would be nice if the NeXT versions were added to the version history. More dates would also be nice. For instance, when was the 1st version released? I believe Mail.app goes back to 1988 with the early releases of NEXTSTEP. I don't think we need to have a separate article for NeXTMail. NeXTMail and Mail.app are the same program. Come to think, NeXTMail should be added to the "aka" at the top of the article. --Coremont (talk) 18:58, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mail.app History 

message: We need to note the recent mail database format change.  Anyone have details on what changed? --Elvey (talk) 15:57, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  DB Format 

message: Why is the main title "Mail (application)" and not "Mail (software)" by Wikipedia convention? 83.25.123.168 (talk) 14:32, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  title 

message: I would like to access the source code of this particular piece of software, please add a link in the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.56.87.208 (talk) 16:18, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source Code 

message: No mention of it in the article, is it supported at all? Richiez (talk) 23:36, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Only through third-party plugins, like https://gpgtools.org/.--Totie (talk) 04:17, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  PGP encryption? 

message: Not sure why but for some reason the external link is to the Russian site. Sincerely, --86.81.201.94 (talk) 20:24, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. The second infobox (for iOS Mail) was auto-populating the blank "website" field with wikidata grabbed from www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212211 — not only the wrong software (OS X Mail) but also out-of-date and in the wrong language, due to the wikidata having been imported from Russian Wikipedia by a bot a couple years ago.  Since Apple apparently has no official page for iOS Mail, setting "website" to "hide" in that infobox has suppressed the display of the irrelevant URL.  I've also updated the official website URL in the wikidata for OS X Mail to match the URL listed in the first infobox. Thanks for drawing attention to the problem. Cheers, AtticusX (talk) 08:03, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russian link 

message: The History section has no version numbers. I will try to find them and add them. 108.26.217.72 (talk) 16:34, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Version history 

message: Wouldn't it be useful to have a compatibility list for Mail like it is available for History of iTunes#Compatibility? And is there an overview about compatibility between macOS versions and major Apple applications? I remember to have seen such a table but cannot find it anymore. Thanks. 87.239.204.204 (talk) 16:32, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Compatibility list 

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message: with macOS Big Sur, a lot of icons were redisigned to look more like iOS, but with more shadow and a more "3D" effect. The old mail icon was not spared. could somebody update this? I can't find a big icon on apple's site. -1ctinus📝🗨 20:51, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big Sur New Mail Icon