Peeve of the moment: Whenever some people refer to the Mac's standard Mail program as "Mail.app" or "Mail-dot-app". I also sometimes hear "Terminal-dot-app", and I expect I'm going to hear "Numbers-dot-app". Yes, "Mail" is a very vanilla name for a program. Yes it needs to be disambiguated from other mail programs, and even from the common noun "mail." But you never hear people say "Word-dot-exe". They call it "Microsoft Word" to disambiguate it from other "words". Likewise, let's call it "Apple Mail". After all, that's what it calls itself:
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3)
Google gets it.
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