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Battle testing over - Mailsmith put on the scrap heap
I tried it, but it failed. I've gone back to the trusty Microsoft Entourage, but I've learnt a little more about AppleScript in the process and hopefully I'll be able to use that to script Entourage.
So what's wrong with MailSmith? Well, here's my big list of gripes:
- It's too damn slow. - Entourage is no speed daemon, but it gets things done accpetably. MailSmith would regularly lock up for 10-15 seconds doing very basic things like moving messages between folders.
- No HTML mail - this is a fact of life now, I'm sorry - live with it guys. The whole 'we don't need HTML mail' is a nice attitude, but CVS Spam is one piece of HTML mail I need to get (and opening a browser to read each CVS commit is a pain in the ass)
- Weird key bindings - I ended up rebinding a lot of keys by mysefl, but how can you not have a key bound for 'Forward Mail' by default?
- The obvious options are hidden - somehow I don't think the MailSmith people process a lot of mail, because for me most of the operations I do regularly are hidden.
Oh well - it was worth a try. Back to Entourage until I find something better.
(PS for those who suggested Mozilla Mail or Thunderbird - I feel seriously sorry for you, those are two of the worst mail clients I've ever used :))
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Just out of interest - what was wrong with Mac.Mail? I've been using it for a few months; have *heaps* of email (imported the last few years worth of email) and lots of email accounts and it all works very nicely.
Its got clean Address book & iChat integration and it uses standard mbox files so its easy to process your inboxes yourself if you wish. It looks like there's more improvements of Mail coming in Panther too like (err) threading! :).
What's this 'cvs spam' you are referring to? Any cool cvs commit mail script that delivers HTML mails? I'm curious since most scripts I use are text-only.
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