[Ti] Mail.app use or abuse?

[Michael Bigley]

>I Have Mail.app competently receiving from 10 different POP3 E-mail 
>accounts (Local ISP's SMTP sever, not mac.com)
>Filtering them into 51 mailbox folders, 8 of which are mail lists 
>(between 200 - 300 e-mails a day).
>Storing mail in multiple nests of folders
>Spam is swept away
>I have never had Mail fall over since OSX 10.1.
>and all on an old DVI 667.
>
>What's the Beef?

- No option to list unread mail (like Entourage) means I have to 
drill down into multiple nested folders 5-6 deep, makes reading mail 
a PIA
- making folders with unread mail simply bold is easy to miss on my 
old eyes, though if the above is resolved, this is moot.
- Apple needs to make sure there is parity with rules of Eudora (and 
probably some other common mail apps); about one third of my filters 
are not available in Mail.app. Eudora allows for multiple matches 
(ignore/and/or/unless) and multiple actions that seem to confuse 
Mail.app. These are features that Eudora has had for years, so we are 
not talking about new stuff.
- Everything you can do by hand to a message should also be a 
configurable as a rule. For example, the really cool and powerful 
"Bounce" command is not available as a rule.

I believe that Mail.app will eventually get there, but it is obvious 
that developing bells and whistles for home users has a higher 
priority that developing tools for power mail users. However, if 
Eudora adds a "bounce to sender" command, I doubt I will ever switch. 
It is the only feature of Mail that I truly lust after.
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