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Apple's .Mac Mail webmail updated overnight to the new interface.

Looks a lot like the Mail.app interface.
There's some small differences like the "Checking" spinner being moved from the Inbox in Mail.app to the top of the interface (below Apple.com's header). There isn't much there that's going to take any time getting used to though.

It feels faster...speed was my main complaint about the old version of .Mac webmail. The preview pane seems to work well. It's been a slow mail day so I don't know yet if it's "web 2.0" enough to automatically show new mail instead of making me click "Get Mail" like I had to in the old .Mac Webmail. Time will tell on that one.

Nice improvement at least, if less than innovative.

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Looks like Apple is updating .Mac afterall.

In August, I posted something about .Mac mail getting old. Now, there's a new page at Apple announcing the upcoming changes to .Mac (via TUAW).

Figures.

It looks good at least. For the Windows users out there, it looks like they're replicating the Mail.app interface for this version. I'm not sure how I feel about that yet. Maybe it'll be OK, but sometimes replicating an application's UI in a browser doesn't work out as good as the idea sounds on paper. As long as it's faster than the current .Mac webmail, it'll be an improvement. Thanks, Apple.

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Can anyone tell me why it makes sense for the keypress to close a window is so close to the keypress to quit the application??

I have no idea how many times I've had a bunch of Safari windows open and closed them all out instead of closing the one that I meant to close. Then I have to go fishing around in my history to find what was open. This can be a lot of windows if it's been a busy day in the blogging world and I've just spent a lot of time in Newsfire clearing things out.

This sucks. I'm frustrated.

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Jon at Administer IT makes a a point that I've been meaning to make about .Mac mail for quite a while now. The .Mac webmail interface is very old school, clunky and pretty slow. For a while, I tried avoiding the issue by forwarding all of my mail to a GMail account, but that just made mail management more difficult. So when I'm away from my laptop, I suffer through it, wondering why I'm paying $99 a year for the service.

To be fair, I use iDisk quite a bit. I also like the flexibility of having web and POP3 access to my email (which is something that most free web mail providers don't give). Having my email address independent of my ISP made my move from Cox to Verizon almost seamless.

I do get a lot of value from having my .Mac account. I just get the impression that Apple is neglecting the applications that make .Mac worth it. Maybe they'll get around to it after Leopard is done. Or maybe they'll improve it after they make it free like the rumors are saying.

Via Digg

Dear Steve Jobs: .Mac Mail is Getting Old

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