>I am most interested in why you did not care for Mail. Since I lost my >Claris Emailer due to my old computer dying I have been using my >granddaughters and its Mail program and while I prefer CE I am sort of >used to Mail now and I'm not sure I can list why I prefer CE.
I'm not sure I can really say for sure why I didn't like Mail. I just didn't. Nothing it it worked the way I wanted or expected. >The other question I have is why is it that so many of you >professionals prefer CE and why then don't the designers of these other >programs incorporate what CE has that would be of benefit. In other >words why don't they come up with a standard mail program that >incorporates the best features of all these other programs? Probably because it is very subjective. For instance, many CE users say PowerMail is very CE like and find it a good alternative. The PowerMail developers even say they tried to mimic much of CE's features, look, and feel. But when I tried PowerMail, I just about HATED it. I found it to be very UN-CE like. It was lots of little things about PowerMail that I disliked. I tried MailSmith, and found it to be much more CE like based on what I like about CE. I might be the only person that has that opinion... except maybe Rich on the list, but I think he is biased being that he works for BareBones, the people that wrote MailSmith :-) I think my point to all this is, I'm not sure anyone can really give a hard and true list of what they do and do not like about a utility they have to use every day. It is a personal opinion, and is one of those things that you just know you either do or do not like it. I'll know the perfect email client for me when I find it (which is one of the reasons I may have to write it, because only I can really know what is perfect for me, anything else will always be a compromise). Meanwhile, my MailSmith demo time is about to run out, so I need to get a move on with finding a new client, or shell out the bucks to buy MailSmith. (I've been delaying, because my new iMac is still in my living room connected to my DVR as I'm making a DVD boxed set of a TV show I recorded and no such set exists on the market yet... as soon as that is done, my iMac will be moved to my computer room. At that time, I'll shut down my old iMac and finally be forced to stop using Emailer for my email at home) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
