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   Apple Updates Mail to Address Mavericks Bugs

   Josh Centers

   Apple has [1]released an update for the Mail application in OS X 10.9
   Mavericks to address some of the Gmail issues outlined by Joe Kissell
   late last month (see '[2]Mail in Mavericks Changes the Gmail Equation,'
   22 October 2013).

   The 32.46 MB Mail Update for Mavericks, which you can get via Software
   Update or [3]download from Apple's Web site or via Software Update,
   claims to fix the inability to delete, move, and archive messages when
   using custom Gmail settings; inaccurate unread mail counts; and other
   unspecified bugs.

   It's clear that Apple intended to make Mail in 10.9 Mavericks work
   better with Google's popular email service, but the result for many was
   a broken mess. It will take time before we know for sure if Apple's
   update solves the problems, but since support for the 20-year-old IMAP
   must by necessity be bolted on to Gmail's modern architecture, there
   will always be some disconnect ' if not outright incompatibilities '
   between Gmail and an IMAP client like Mail.

   If this update does not resolve the particular problems you're seeing
   with Gmail, your best bet may be either to use [4]Mailplane, which
   encapsulates the Gmail Web app within a native Mac wrapper (to see why
   TidBITS Publisher Adam Engst likes Mailplane, see '[5]Zen and the Art
   of Gmail, Part 4: Mailplane,' 16 March 2011), or to follow in Joe
   Kissell's footsteps and leave Gmail for a more standards-compliant
   email provider (see '[6]Joe Kissell Says Sayonara to Gmail,' 31 October
   2013).

   We heard a lot of great feedback from you in Joe's original article, so
   please let us know in the comments if the update fixes your Mail
   problems. We hope to get Joe to comment on this topic soon ' he is en
   route to Los Angeles to join Adam and Tonya and Michael Cohen at
   MacTech Conference 2013, where they're hosting an event in honor of the
   10th anniversary of Take Control ('[7]Celebrating Ten Years of Take
   Control,' 28 October 2013).

References

   1. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6030
   2. http://tidbits.com/article/14219
   3. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1703
   4. http://mailplaneapp.com/
   5. http://tidbits.com/article/12039
   6. http://tidbits.com/article/14253
   7. http://tidbits.com/article/14231

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