My anecdote is that that has never happened to me and all IMAP clients seem fairly stable to me. Do with that information what you will.

I sometimes feel like an edge case detector.

Anyway, It has been some years since I last used IMAP. I had issues with Outlook, Thunderbird and Nylas N1 while connecting to Gmail, Exchange and Office365. It was a fairly small mailbox getting about 20k mail a year and keeping about half of that. Usually moving about 5k mail around at a time (end of year).

It got so bad that I had to get familiar enough with the IMAP protocol to make my own client program to handle deduplication overnight. Shortly after that I decided to just give up on trying to keep thinks organized.

I am in Australia and this was before the NBN, so obviously it was always on shitty connections.

Me neither, I also only use my headphones. I've only had to use mono mode on amateur youtube videos where one of the audio channels is just missing. It has never been an issue on big productions.

Perhaps they're using a weird media player?

Yes, that does seem super complicated compared to the plug and play setup 99.9% of people are using.

Also in any other major OS afaik. It's a standard accessibility feature.

The font site is 9pt. It's just small. Not sure where someone got 12px from. The measurement is resolution independent, yes.

9pt == 12px on the web. You can check that in Web Inspector in computed styles.

Alternatively:

  1px = (1/96)in
  1pt = (1/72)in = (1/72)*(96/72)*(72/96)in = (96/72)*(1/96)in = (4/3)*1px = (4/3)px
  9pt = 9*1pt = 9*(4/3)px = 12px

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Values_...

I felt the same about typescript early on. Now I really like it as I can easily program logic for hours without running the app once. I'm not sure I could do that without typing.

It also makes reading code a lot easier. I can see where something is used, where it's defined, etc etc. It's much easier to get around.

You're right, it's not possible to set a custom search engine on safari. An extension is the only way. Blame apple :)

Insanity. There used to be some kind of opensearch type thing even in Safari years ago.

I guess they took it away. Ridiculous.

Probably the reason why google pay so much to them. This is so insane....

It's pretty bad, but to be clear, it's not that you can't pick anything other than the default, it's that you are given a tiny selection of the biggest players and have to choose from them. Other browsers allow you to specify an arbitrary URL for it to inject the query string into.

I think Safari used to allow this. Or maybe they didn't, because I used to use something like this years ago and maybe that was when I was using chrome. Does anyone remember if Safari had this?

Damn, that's something that needs to be regulated.

Why would apple identify the domain used for unsubscribes as in use solely for being a bounce tracker?

Their heuristics are proprietary dunno

So you argument here is based on something that hasn't happened, but just something you pulled out of nowhere. Or was this meant humorously?

Please elaborate on this, as I'm not exactly sure what you mean. The email deliverability problem is a side effect of false positives in spam filtering. Unless you have a proposal to completely eradicate false positives?

Senders that apply dmarc and want their emails to be forwarded should use dkim. Forwarding a dkim signed message doesn't break dmarc at all.

> how often is fails with Microsoft specifically

This is the most important part. Exchange (due to its history as an X.400 server, not as an SMTP server) does sometimes mangle the message to the point that DKIM simply breaks. This both breaks origin-incoming and forwarded messages.

BTW, Apple also sometimes mangle messages that it fails DKIM, although I do not know why is this the case (as I doubt they use Microsoft Exchange for their mail service).

this is a long standing problem with mailing lists. they are often configured to add a "[...]" prefix to the subject or add a footer, breaking the dkim signature. this leads some more recently updated mailing lists to always rewrite to their own "message from" header, so they control dmarc alignment for their messages.

for incoming email on mailing lists i'm subscribed to, i don't enforce the dmarc policy. i think this is what the parent post hints at. i'm not sure how easy this is to configure with the various mail server software out there. i'm also not aware how you would configure this with sieve scripts (i looked, didn't find it, but it seems like a basic case).

if you're running a mailing list, hoping for all subscribers to not enforce dmarc policy enforcement doesn't seem like a great strategy.

the forwarding case should be easier to keep working.