Mailsmith and Notes (!) kick Mail’s butt
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
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.”
Tags: Apple Mail, attachments, Domino, mail.app, Mailsmith, Notes, switching