mail programs

[William Ehrich]

Matt Penna wrote:

> I went with Mail.app. You said in an edited portion of your message that 
> it does not look like they're supporting it anymore, but I don't know 
> what you meant by that; it is regularly updated with system updates and 
> will receive quite an overhaul in Leopard.

That's good to hear. 

What bugs me with Mail.app is that if I have a separate window to look at a message I'm used to paging down and then going to the next message with the space bar. Maybe PgDn would work, but my laptop doesn't have it.

Going to the next message is normally one key stroke ('F' in T'bird). Mail.app requires cmd-W to close the window, selecting the next message with down-arrow or mouse, and then opening that with return or enter. A minor irritation which builds cumulatively to real hate after only 20 messages.
(Is there a way to alias all that to one key?)

There was a lot of discussion on this list, which included some of the people working on Mail.app, in which several people brought up problems. We were told that they had too much to do to and that management set priorities. Then they said they were all transferred to other work. (iPhone?)

I hope you're right about Leopard being better. 

> While I sing the praises of Thunderbird to all of my Windows-using 
> friends, I cannot recommend it on Mac OS X.

It uses one file for a mailbox, including attachments like the sometimes multi-megabyte pictures that my children send. That's not practical, inviting catastrophes when one moves messages between mailboxes. Eudora saved the attachments separately.

-- Bill Ehrich