Here is the first of an email interview series with developers, bloggers and others on Apple Mail and how they use it…..

Scott Morrison has an M. A. in Educational Technology and teaches Computer Sciences at a high school in Montreal. In the evenings, he tries to transform himself into a developer of Mail plug-ins.

His first Mac was the original Mac 128k in 1984, and he has been a die hard Mac user since. His current rig includes a Powerbook G4 -500 and an iMac intel duo-Core 1.83. He loves a good scotch and in his other spare time makes beer and mead.

Mail Act-On and MailTags are his first forays into Cocoa/Objective C programming (and probably the most ambitious and widely-used of all the Mail.app plugins).

HW: How long have you been using Mail.app? What other clients have you used (and why did you stop)?

SM: Off and on since OS 10.0, but exclusively since January 2005. I’ve used Entourage which I found slow (Office 2001) and too “Microsofty”, and Thunderbird, which was a great client, but a little buggy in bits and not fully integrated in to the OS X environment (such as Spotlight and addressbook).

I made the switch back to Mail because I was looking forward to using Spotlight and Smart Mailfolders. Once I started developing plug-ins, I kept eating my own dog food. I also use First Class Client but that is only for work.

HW: What plugins and extensions do you use to make your email experience better?

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