The Air Today

The fresh, cool air hit me when I opened my front door this morning. The temperature of the still air was perfect for a motorcycle ride or a walk in the park with my girls. Anything outdoors. Today is not a day to be indoors. Weather.com says it’s 71 degrees in my zip code.

Snow Leopard Mail.app bug “Send new messages from: Account of selected mailbox” is broken

20090915 Tuesday update: I upgraded to 10.6.1 a day or so ago. Now this feature is working right again.

I upgraded to Snow Leopard this past Sunday. Yesterday, I ran into a totally new problem all day with Mail.app: It ignores the following preference:

Preferences | Composing | Send new messages from: <Account of selected mailbox>

If I set this to a given mailbox, that works, but choosing “<Account of selected mailbox> does not work. Instead, new messages go to the first account in the list on that same option button, which happens to be my personal mail account.

As a result of this, I sent tons of work email from my personal account yesterday. I noticed it on a couple of messages and fixed them as I was writing them. I chalked it up to user error at the time.

So far, I’m not happy I upgraded. That is, the upgrade hasn’t touched me in a way that outweighs this problem and the lack of support for Sharpshooter 0.5, necessitating a Sharpshooter upgrade.

Behcet’s disease (not me)

A friend was just diagnosed with Behçet’s disease. He had a history of really bad mouth sores that came and went. He was diagnosed finally as thrush last week. Then, at the hospital this weekend, they confirmed the thrush diagnosis and raised it to Behçet’s.