Like you, I have been deeply disappointed with Apple Mail and the lack of improvement on Snow Leopard. I have a long list of issues to add to yours–many revolving around the fact that my e-mails that have typefaces and/or graphics get horribly mangled (and the extent and manifestations of the mangle are wildly unpredictable) going from Apple Mail to any of my corporate clients who use Outlook. I’m renting offices and buying computers for my new consulting firm in early ‘10, and am distressed to realize that I will probably have to buy Windows computers or risk looking stupid to clients.

I do have two ideas, though:

- Do you think Apple might have left Apple Mail “brain dead” because they are totally reinventing e-mail with the new Apple tablet? Looking at Google Wave, it strikes me that e-mail is ready for a reinvention…and it would be very ‘Jobsian’ to stop investing in Apple Mail if there was some fundamentally new paradigm waiting on the other side.

- I have been building a relationship with Brendan Langoulant (http://www.linkedin.com/in/langoulant) who is the product manager for Apple Mail. Any interest in me trying to set up a meeting in Cupertino with you, me & Brendan? Or is this too tedious to even think about? Regardless of what Apple is doing with the tablet, I do wish they offered a “switch” on Apple Mail that would make it look like Outlook to the outside world, so that my communications wouldn’t look so horrible….

Jonathan