@johngordon Just as another data point: I am a heavy mail.app user but very, very selective about plugins and addons. Even with huge IMAP boxes (multi GB) I hardly have an issue.
I do not interface with gmail, though.
@konrad@clarkgoble I think Michael would have checked plugins. I have hunch OS X now has storage layer issues with some hardware; subtle race/timing bugs. Probably dates to 64bit migration. Just an intuition.
@johngordon@konrad@clarkgoble I checked plug-ins to make sure that SpamSieve wasn't the cause. Customers also get lots of crashes with no plug-ins. I'm mainly seeing crashes related to Core Animation and assertion failures in Mail's Exchange code.
@mjtsai@johngordon@konrad mine is typically crashing in middle of night when I'm not using it. Very weird and annoying as I use my main machine to route all my emails into appropriate folders and clear out spam with SpamSieve.
@johngordon I actually like Yosemite a lot. There are some features such as SMS messages in iMessage that I’d never want to give up. Others, such as handoff, I really don’t use.
@johngordon Even the Mail bugs, while bad, are nothing like the huge mail problems with Gmail last year (which I don’t think got fixed until January as I recall)