Is it me or does Mail.app suck?

Normally I steer clear of Mail.app on OS X, but I was trying to test something for Curtis so I had to actually go and set up an account in Mail.app. I don't know if its me, or people just don't do anything out of the normal on Macs, or its the Mac Fanatics who gloss over the issues but it seems like when ever I try to do something that seems simple on OS X, I get some cryptic message. This time its even better than the last time I had a problem So, as I mentioned, all I wanted to do was configure Mail.app to connect to my IMAP server. Now I run my own IMAP server, and it runs on a non-standard port, and SSL is enabled with a self-signed certificate. A little out of the ordinary, but Thunderbird handles it just fine. I muck around with the account setup options and find the places to enable SSL and change the IMAP port number. Not much different than Thunderbird. So I expected to see something similar to Thunderbird when I click "Get Mail" for the first time. Which is, that a notice about the self-signed certificate pops up, and I am asked to allow or deny it. Not so with Mail.app. It just spins a while. Never really gives up, never really does anything. Ok so a quick web search and I find about Mail.app and self-signed certificates so I give it a try. Try to quit and restart Mail.app. First off I need to force quit. Odd. When it starts up, The icon next to the INBOX is different. And here's the greatest error message of all. I click on Mail.app, and all I hear is a "Bong". WTF does that mean?!

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