The final Lion feature Apple wants to talk about today is the new Mail.app.
• Two or three column view, similar to iOS Mail.
• Smart new search suggestions. “It prompts you, when you select one, it becomes a search token, and you can have more than one,” says Phil Schiller.
• Conversation view, completely compatible with people who don’t have Lion.
It’s nice to finally see Lion’s default Mail.app catch up with the likes of Postbox, don’t you think? Hate the new logo though. Apple’s really embracing brushed steel again with Lion.
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4 responses to “Lion’s New Mail.app Gets New Search, Conversations and Icon [WWDC 2011]”
Either brushed Fe or brushed Al it looks great…love the change. Usually I’m a keep it as it is until its broken guy.
Wow they really do love those icons don’t they?!
Some brushed metal with some black symbol on, meh, don’t like them at all and they are definitely overusing the style…
To everyone who doesn’t want the new icon, navigate to your Applications folder, right click on Mail and select “Show Package Contents”, go to /Contents/Resources and back up app.icns. If Apple doesn’t change it, you can do the same in Lion and paste the icon to the new Mail, but if Apple does, just right click and select “Get Info” on both and drag the big icon in app.icns info window and drop it in the place of the small icon in Mail 5 info window.
The one feature I hope they finally get in mail.app is proxy support…I spend too much time at customers’ sites stuck behind their damn proxies, and I need mail.app to work instead of having to use the damn useless web app for my mail.