<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 4, 2014, at 1:17 PM, "stephen e. schwartz" <<a href="mailto:ses@bnl.gov">ses@bnl.gov</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">Let me chime in here; actually maybe I can get some suggestions from this group.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>There's a lot of meat there, Stephen..are there specific questions you have? I know many people are not happy about the demise of Eudora.</div><div><br></div><div>I have less than no desire to use Outlook. The Mail.app alternatives I would even consider, in order, are:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Thunderbird</div><div>2. Gyaz Mail</div><div><br></div><div>Gyaz gets a number 2 only because of how it handles some aspect of mail..might be imap..a change made to how it handles that. I do not recall exactly but it pushed me to Thunderbird. Otherwise, Gyaz, IMHO, is first-rate.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's some hard data: after 3 hours of fooling around with mail.app I still couldn't get it to accept my email account settings. </div><div><br></div><div>Thunderbird, I had configured and ready for business in less than 3 minutes.</div><div><br></div><div>No lie, no exaggeration.</div><div><br></div><div>cat</div></body></html>