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Mail in Mavericks is bad.

Since the previews, I have not been able to archive emails for Gmail accounts or Google Apps for Business. A subset of mails archived directly on Gmail will appear and stay in Mail's Inbox. I'm not sure where the developers for Mail went to that they didn't have the resources to fix it. Maybe to help with the iOS 7 crunch?

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Yeah, this one is well known, see https://tidbits.com/article/14219.

We actually have some evidence to suggest that we've picked up a few customers leaving Gmail because of this problem. Which is nice, but now we have to deal with a different bug. Nobody is safe from Mail.app! ;)

In my head, Mail.app was written for Steve, who I imagine was a read-reply-delete kind of a guy, and not much else mattered.

If that were true, the reverse would have happened. Mail.app was behaving properly before Mavericks.

Mail.app is an old NEXTSTEP app. It's probably one of the oldest apps on the platform, and it's always sucked.

There was even a windows version for a while, which you could get if you bought NeXT's Enterprise Objects Framework for Windows NT.

Yes, I'm aware of this, which is why I said what I did.

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