[G4] .Mail App

[James Pacyga]

I don't think I would hold off on the Tiger OS upgrade because of 
mail...there are other options to pursue...and I'd agree - unless you 
live on email and do 100s per day, it won't be an issue.  I use it for 
my ISP mail (this list too) and it does just fine...

jim

On Jun 19, 2005, at 6:22 AM, Steve Goldstein wrote:

> Mail.app **works** for me, but it is an absolute drudge compared to 
> Eudora which, though lousy at rendering HTML, and not coordinated with 
> AddressBook, can thread operations (like fetching mail and reading 
> mail at the same time), whereas with Mail.app, it can do only one 
> thing at a time.  While Mail.app updates the indexes of various 
> "smart" mail folders, for example, nothing else can happen.  You are 
> dead in the water while you wait for it to finish.  Or, when you Send 
> a message, you have to sit and wait for the "whoosh," whereas in 
> Eudora and other good mail clients, you can send in the background and 
> go on to another task while the sending operations take place.  
> Mail.app is fine for a person that works with only a handful of 
> messages daily and does not have huge mail archives, but I find it 
> terribly underpowered for my needs.
>
> --Steve
>
> At 8:49 AM -0400 6/19/05, Tim Collier wrote:
>> I use the mail app exclusively.  I like it very much.  Works well.  I 
>> don't know what all the furor is all about.
>
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