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On switching and choosing Apple Mail

Fred Avolio recently switched. He bought a PowerBook. On his blog he details his experiments with various Mac email clients—Eudora, Thunderbird, Mulberry—before settling on Apple Mail as the best solution.

He likes the integration of Spotlight, although wishes he could perform more complicated searches. He likes Mail.app’s rules. He misses labels, but could get them back using MailTags and Mail Act-on (or Label Scripts).

His account of the reasons why other clients fall a little short is a good read.

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2 Responses to “On switching and choosing Apple Mail”

  1. Ted Pavlic says:
    December 29th, 2005 at 6:35 am

    That’s all fine, but it doesn’t address what seems to me to be the key problem with using IMAP and Apple Mail: How do you unsubscribe from (that is, hide) folders?

    Long-time IMAP veterans will be very familiar with this functionality — all other IMAP clients have it. Old archive folders or not-often-used folders can be hidden from view. However, in Apple Mail there is no way to do this. Because of this, I’m stuck using Thunderbird.

    I know there are Perl hacks out there that serve as local proxies that can hide folders from Apple Mail, but that isn’t a sane solution. This really should be built into Apple Mail. Any thoughts?

  2. Tim says:
    December 29th, 2005 at 8:00 am

    Yes, it’s a problem. No doubt about it.

    Personally, I tackle it in two ways. First, I use Smart Mailboxes to find and display the emails that I need. This stops me clicking through large numbers of mailboxes that could otherwise be unsubscribed. There’s a descripion of how this works for me on the site. You don’t need to be into “Getting Things Done” to reap the benefits of this approach.

    Secondly, I use Mail Act-on for filing, again saving myself the hassle of neogtiating endless mailboxes when sorting mail.

    These steps help to ease the pain, but it is still a pain. :-(

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