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[Jamie Kahn Genet]

James Bucanek <subscriber at gloaming.com> wrote:

> Stroller wrote on Saturday, April 16, 2005:
> 
> >IMAP is the Way To Go (tm) - if you start using it, I'm sure you'll 
> >never go back.
> 
> Went to IMAP years ago.  Ran away screaming and cursing.  Will probably
> never go back.

Why exactly, if you don't mind me asking?

> For a good (read propeller-headish) GUI mail app, I highly recommend Bare
> Bones' Mailsmith.  I use it because it is text-only, has extremely
> powerful filtering capabilities, and fantastic AppleScript support which
> allows me to completely automate a number of very complex workflows.  No
> IMAP support, which suites me just fine.  I might like it better it if had
> integrated threading (there's an AppleScript that I use to gather threads
> and show them in a separate window), but probably not much.

I try every release of MailSmith and go right back to MacSOUP. I simply
cannot live without good threading, even if the rest of the application
is excellent.

Regards,
 Jamie Kahn Genet
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