Talking Mail.app: Peter Maurer
Peter Maurer is a medical student who likes creating software for the mac in his spare time.
Peter’s spare time has yielded gems like Witch 
, Butler , Textpander, , Service Scrubber and more.
He uses a iMac G5 B (17 inches, 1.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM) which he says is, believe it or not, completely sufficient for programming.
HW: How long have you been using Mail.app? What other clients have you used (and why did you stop)?
PM: Ever since I’ve switched from OS 9 (was using Eudora back then) to OS X. I don’t quite remember exactly when I switched to OS X, but it was during the 10.0 era, so we’re probably talking about more or less five years here.
HW: What plugins, extensions and add-ons do you use to make your email experience better?
PM: None. I had installed some plug-ins (GPGMail for instance) in the past, but I’ve grown tired of tracking updates in order to keep those working.
HW: What’s your favourite thing about Mail.app?
PM: Actually, there are a few:
1. Never had to look at the manual — it’s that intuitive.
2. I like being able to choose colors for different kinds of mails — e.g., donations are green ;-)
3. Mail.app is free.
HW: What’s your pet hate about Mail.app?
PM: I’d like to have one trash for all my different e-mail accounts. Who needs a “Trash” folder with three trash cans inside?
HW: If you could tell the Apple Mail development team one thing, what would it be?
PM: Hire me ;-)
But seriously: I’d probably say “Good Work!”.
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