In emailer-Digest V2006 #23, the person identified as Douglas McAdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thoughtfully said:
>Hi Chris- >I am most interested in why you did not care for Mail. I'm not Chris, but... my first experience with email was ZTerm (a =long= time ago!). I then explored White Knight(?) before upgraded to Black Night for features I forget now. Then I moved to an early Eudora, but was never satisfied. Finally somebody touted me onto [EMAIL PROTECTED] (by that time it was available for free) and I fell in love. I looked at Mail when I got the G4 w/OS X, but didn't like =anything= about it. It's been too long now for details, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to send or receive mail... kept having to search through pull-down menus and the like. Didn't like the way it wanted to quote an =entire= email to which I was responding, rather than letting me select just what I wanted quoted. Never did figure out how to make it save emails where I wanted them (but then I quickly lost patience and came back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tried Thunderbird, but it was too much like Mail so I ditched it. My wife had a bad experience with an [EMAIL PROTECTED] crash I couldn't recover from for her, so I got her (on OS 9 at the time) Eudora (paid). I despise the way it splits the screen w/incoming mail subjects and the one you are reading, and I find sending awkward (which is why she uses it and I stick with [EMAIL PROTECTED]). As others have said, I like the lack of "sophistication" (aka bells and whistles), and the way it works on this G4, our old Clamshell, and the new (to us) Snow G3 iBook. A big part of it is the way it just =works=, without a lot of fiddling. Why should I learn how to use another app the way somebody designed it to work (whether I like it or not)? >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. If you like [EMAIL PROTECTED] (no html, which drives some people mad when I ask for plain text) why not reinstall it? I was trying to help somebody else locate it (but couldn't remember Chris' download URL), and a Google search turned up a download for 1.x and another for the updater to 2.0v3. (Don't have them bookmarked, but I could find them again if you want.) My $0.02... -- Selah! BWms -="When Obi-Wan talked about the Dark Side of the Force, who knew he was referring to Windows...?" =- ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
