The problem is, everybody who wants a new Mail client is an Edge case in terms of the existing mail clients. If we weren't we'd be happy with what was given. Everybody wants Letters to fulfill their edge case without fulfilling others, or they want the thing to be a plugin architecture and traffic cop instead of an integrated and fluid application.
I replaced Firefox with Safari and Thunderbird with Mail long ago because I relied on so many plugins to make it do what i wanted that everytime I opened the app I had to deal with new plugin versions. Then a new app version and half the plugins don't work for 6 weeks while the bugs get worked out. Wash, rinse, repeat. The only thing I had to hang onto Firefox for was Firebug, which Safari's new Debug menu has completely supplanted for my purposes. I open Firefox now purely to test shit, or when i hit a particularly horrid site. We're not talking about Adium Xtras or TextMate bundles here. Real, hardcore mail client functionality is getting shunted of into neverland or plugin-land to "keep the app light" which is a misnomer. I need more than (quite literally) a dumb viewer laid on top of an IMAP framework. And responding to your previous comment: You're assuming that Power Email User == [Nerd|Geek|SysAdmin|NetEng|Developer]. Again, for the two thousandth time, Letters has more potential than that. Brent wanted it to be for Power Email users. Not JUST the geeks, but people who can't script their way out of a wet paper bag but still live and die via email. It should be about making a Better client. Not a Developer client. Not a "how much can we strip out of this and still claim that its usable" client. Features are not a vice. Poorly implemented ones are. Email occupies (on a good day) 30-40%+ of my day to day work. Communication is a spoke in the wheel of any good business and much of that has been moved to email. I want an app that is integrated and powerful. I *don't* want to worry about having one program with 10 plugins instead of just one program. We're Mac geeks, we should know better and we should strive for better. -nick -- Nick Peelman [email protected] On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Thomas McQuillan <[email protected]> wrote: >> That is not even the margin for error in a statistically valid sample >> >> I'm an administrator and am currently debugging a power-user's issues with >> Thunderbird over IMAP. Does that count? > > I submit that I am in the minority. Still seems like this is setting > the bar pretty low. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
