Apple’s Mail “was a mostly painless experience. I was pleased with [it]. That is, until I started looking around at other email apps and some of their very nifty features—good ones not found in Mail,” Bambi Brannan writes for Mac360.
“As I looked around at other email apps I found plenty that think different. Some, like Mozilla’s Thunderbird are heavy on features, free, cross platform, but not so Mac-like,” Brannan writes. “My latest flame is the one that scares me the most, yet shows the most promise as an email app I can live with. Scared? Mail is good and it’s free. Postbox is very good, but not so free.”
4 reasons why Postbox beats Mail:
• Unified Account Groups
• Focus Pane
• Tabs
• Filters
Postbox “does some very unique things for those of us who slave over hot keyboards all day long,” Brannan writes.
Read the full article, which offers more than the four reasons listed above, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
How about Apple just releases an update to Mail to add some of the most requested features? Is that too much to ask?
I WANT WIDESCREEN PREVIEW WITHOUT LETTERBOX OR WIDEMAIL!
How about Apple just releases an update to Mail to add some of the most requested features? Is that too much to ask?
I WANT WIDESCREEN PREVIEW WITHOUT LETTERBOX OR WIDEMAIL!
Never trust the opinion of anyone who sticks very in front of an absolute.
Very unique is as bad as very perfect.
Never trust the opinion of anyone who sticks very in front of an absolute.
Very unique is as bad as very perfect.
Apple, if you’re not going to release new versions of OS X as often, you can at least improve existing apps with software updates!
Other than iTunes, when do other OS X bundled apps ever get upgrades?
Where’s iLife ’11?
Apple, if you’re not going to release new versions of OS X as often, you can at least improve existing apps with software updates!
Other than iTunes, when do other OS X bundled apps ever get upgrades?
Where’s iLife ’11?
@MacinScott
Besides 1 or 2 versions of iLife, it has always been released the year of it’s version in January. So to me it would make better sense that iLife ’11 would be released around Jan of 2011.
@MacinScott
Besides 1 or 2 versions of iLife, it has always been released the year of it’s version in January. So to me it would make better sense that iLife ’11 would be released around Jan of 2011.
@ MacinScott,
iLife ’11 is stuck in next year waiting for the rest of us to catch up.
@ MacinScott,
iLife ’11 is stuck in next year waiting for the rest of us to catch up.
a focus pane?
FYI, mail in iOS4.0 introduced unified mail. iOS 4.2 comes to the iPad next month.
a focus pane?
FYI, mail in iOS4.0 introduced unified mail. iOS 4.2 comes to the iPad next month.
I did.. I’s called entourage, not quite as good as outlook but blows away Apple mail.
I did.. I’s called entourage, not quite as good as outlook but blows away Apple mail.
No Mail, iLife or OS X improvements coming, iOS and the iPad is the new favored device.
Do you see a educational line of MacBooks anymore?
No Mail, iLife or OS X improvements coming, iOS and the iPad is the new favored device.
Do you see a educational line of MacBooks anymore?
@jim
Are you freakin crazy? Entourage is a super turd that crashes my machine on a regular basis! Sure it’s chock full of features, but who wants to deal with kernel panics 3-4 times a day?
@jim
Are you freakin crazy? Entourage is a super turd that crashes my machine on a regular basis! Sure it’s chock full of features, but who wants to deal with kernel panics 3-4 times a day?
@Bizzarro
Sometimes makes you wish Apple was the small company it once was. Love the new iDevices, but don’t want innovation on Macs to suffer at their expense.
Why doesn’t Apple just use some of their cash to buy third party software and incorporate it?
@Bizzarro
Sometimes makes you wish Apple was the small company it once was. Love the new iDevices, but don’t want innovation on Macs to suffer at their expense.
Why doesn’t Apple just use some of their cash to buy third party software and incorporate it?
Mail.app sends my emails and receives the emails my friends and associates and family send me, and blocks 99,9% of undesirable emails. What more can I ask?
Mail.app sends my emails and receives the emails my friends and associates and family send me, and blocks 99,9% of undesirable emails. What more can I ask?
If you’re (notice, not your:)) having kernel panics, Entourage is not the cause. You had better do some system maintenance… At least I think.
The only feature I really need in Mail that Entourage has is the ability to selectively delete messages from the server. Entourage has an envelope icon next to messages (or a blue link) that when selected, gives you the choice to leave the message on the server or to delete it from the server and still have the message on your Mac. I cannot do without this feature for my work.
I have requested Apple to add this feature to Mail several times, but so far, they haven’t. So for me, for now, it is Entourage – stuck because of one feature, and I don’t think any other email program has this ability. :(.
If you’re (notice, not your:)) having kernel panics, Entourage is not the cause. You had better do some system maintenance… At least I think.
The only feature I really need in Mail that Entourage has is the ability to selectively delete messages from the server. Entourage has an envelope icon next to messages (or a blue link) that when selected, gives you the choice to leave the message on the server or to delete it from the server and still have the message on your Mac. I cannot do without this feature for my work.
I have requested Apple to add this feature to Mail several times, but so far, they haven’t. So for me, for now, it is Entourage – stuck because of one feature, and I don’t think any other email program has this ability. :(.
How about just improving Mail so that you can open attachments with drag and drop and get to a particular place in a sender’s list by typing the first letter of the sender’s name? The problem with Mail is that it’s not really a Mac app, but an adaptation of Thunderbird. As difficult as it was sometimes, Eudora was more of a Mac app than Thunderbird is.