Top Posting and Bottom Posting

Dear Cupertino,

Now, for those of you that know me, you will know that this is a huge pet peeve of mine.

Email clients that Top Post by default and have no way to bottom post in any setting. One of the biggest email clients Outlook, has this same problem, and it annoys me to all end. (I detail this annoyance here.)

Mail.app does this. You can't bottom post at all.

Top posting means, when you reply to an email, the email client puts your cursor at the top of the email above the Attribution line.

Bottom Posting means, when you reply to an email, the email client puts your cursor at the bottom of the email, above your signature block.

The reason that this annoys me, is because I try to be a good Net Citizen and bottom post. I bottom post because I feel that when you read an email thread you should be able to logically follow it. If you've ever tried to read an email thread that is posted in totally Top posting format, you will know that this makes email threads logically hard to read. I'd like the ability, in Mail.app, much like it is in Thunderbird, to make my default post method Bottom only.

Please?

Thanks,

Joel

More Exchange Support in Mail, Please!

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Dear Cupertino,

I love Mail. I love the way it handles all my emails, and the fact that I can have a single inbox for all my email accounts. It's fantastic that it can handle Exchange mail servers in the first place - if it didn't, there would be a serious deficiency on Apple's part.


However - there is one flaw that I've recently encountered that can be easily fixed; Mail, in it's current iteration, can only support one Exchange inbox at a time. Just one, and not one more.

Of course, you can see where this would be massively frustrating - if you're at home and you and your partner have Exchange accounts on your company's server, then you're up the creek without a paddle. You then have to resort to using a third party program which does have multiple Exchange inbox support, or worse - use the ugly-as-sin Entourage 2008 client for Mac (which only supports Exchange if you buy the Standard edition, not Home and Student).

However hard I wonder why Apple hasn't built this into Mail, I can't quite seem to fathom why they have done so.

Anyways - I'd love to see this feature in 10.6 - kudos to Apple if they deliver the goods.

Thanks,
Benny Ling