Mailsmith and Notes (!) kick Mail’s butt
In Apple’s Discussions, Tom Weir discovers again 
why he had ditched Mail.app for Mailsmith.
He was lured back by Tiger, MailTags and MailTemplates, but after transferring his 20,000+ emails over, he launched Mail and found that it couldn’t find his mail. As a result, “I had to recreate and re-import and futz all day with it. Which is why I had given up on it and gone and bought a mail program,” he says.
End result: “Back to dull, dull, but very stable Mailsmith. Mail isn’t ready for professional use.”
Meanwhile, over at the Notes/Domino 6 and 7 forum, Mike Brown is roasting Mail as a pretty boy that can’t compare to the power of Notes when it comes to attachments.
Testing on Panther Mail, he finds that Mail handles the editing of attachments in draft emails in some really weird ways. Sometimes the edits are there, sometimes not. With Notes, changes are always saved into the attachment.
End result: “One up to Notes, methinks.”
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Tags: Apple Mail, attachments, Domino, mail.app, Mailsmith, Notes, switching
April 6th, 2006 at 3:02 am
I hate to say it, but MailSmith isn’t anything special. It’s a great application if you use POP — but I haven’t used POP in years. It doesn’t support IMAP. I’m not going back to transferring mail here and there and everywhere — I want it on my server so I can check it how I like wherever I want, and switch clients in seconds. If it starts doing IMAP, I’ll start comparing it to the big boys — instead, it’s just a niche market.
April 6th, 2006 at 11:32 am
Years of Mulberry’s reliable IMAP support kept me from ever seriously considering any mail client that only supported POP.