A blog round-up of sorts….
- Domenico Bettinelli Jr found that
Entourage was “giving him fits” and isswitching toApple Mail . Benj is thinking about it for a “lighter, simpler experience”. Bill Kinnon will switch too if he can find the energy and remembers. - Rui Carmo at Tao of Mac is (justifiably?) underwhelmed by the improvements to
Mail.app in10.4.3 . - The many reasons “why you should use Mozilla
Thunderbird as your mail and news client”. Interesting. - A few months ago, Norman Richards mentioned that his friends keep telling him to ditch Mail.app for Entourage. But he can’t:
I can’t give up Mail. People tell me to try Entourage. I can’t yet. It’s the one sacred Apple application I’m not emotionally ready to part with. I’m getting close, though.
A kindred spirit. I wonder what happened.
Justin at computarmachine had a crash. Although Apple Mail is “slick and full of features”, he will be using emacs for his emals from now on.
Me, I’m loving Mail at the moment.
Rather like Andy Hume at The Dredge who feels that everything is rosy with the world after his Apple Mail sailed through the upgrade.
Or Darien who is happy to say that Mail.app is the first email client he has used that does “what I expect how I expect”.
Or Chris who says that Mail.app is “this close to being perfect for him” except that it occasionally goes AWOL on a “synchronization rant”. (That can be annoying).
How’s it treating you?
I like mail. I used to use Eudora, but have switched to mail, quite a while ago. I have about 10,000 emails from 6 email accounts, filtered into about 20 mailboxes, by 100 rules for sorting the emails into the proper places. Mail is very easy to control.
I only wish that i could navigate, up and down, my various mailboxes with the up and down arrow keys, then, using the right arrow key, move into the mailbox. … and so on. …
I love my Mail.app. I love your blog. I have to use Outlook Express at work and it makes me want to smash the computer. 10.4.3 upgrade was smooth, no problems here. Keep up the good work!
Jack wrote:
But you can! At least I can. You need hit the Tab key until the Mailbox Drawer is the active pane, and then you can arrow-key away to your heart’s content.
To follow up on your inclusion of me in your links above, I am loving Mail. It took a little while to get used to the different way of doing things, but I really like it. I am very happy that I am still able to use SpamSieve and all of the training for spam that I’ve done with it. I believe it runs even faster in Mail than Entourage.
The only things I miss from Entourage are the unique sorting abilities in message lists, the 3-panel side-by-side folder/message list/preview, and the ability to click on a message without it immediately becoming “read”.
Excellent news, Domenico! Yes, I like the three-panel view too. Still, I think of it as a small price to pay.
Hi! I got my Macbook Pro yesterday and am getting started in the Apple world since then. I am absolutely stunned about almost everything in it: the world got much simpler with Apple. But it pretty suchs when it comes to emails…
You asked how is Mail.app treating me? It was wonderful until an hour ago, when it got completely crazy with my mailboxes and simply crashed, believe it or not.
I used to have Thunderbird for my emails on Win and it always worked perfectly (like Jack Mancilla I have about 20 Mailboxes but about as 3 times as much emails as he has). So I followed the steps from http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=347556 (using Eudora Light Cleaner) and managed to import my emails to
Mail app. But it simply got incredibly slow and didn’t work any longer after I tried to reorganize my Mailboxes…
sk_dakota from this website (http://www.apfeltalk.de/forum/emails-thunderbird-mail-t27242.html) actually alerted that Mail app. takes several minutes to open big Mailboxes folders, but I was stubborn and wanted to try it for myself… it is sad to loose great funtions as Spotlight and having an organized unique Addressbook, but I will go back to Thunderbird.