Hi Bill-
It sounds to me like you have not used the current Mail which comes
with the Mac now. My granddaughter has it on her G4 which I use.
There is no problem with how to send, reply etc. the menu at the top
can be customized and the quotes can be customized also. So I'm not
sure what you would not like about it now.
Doing a Search for a word or Sender Name, Subject etc. is much quicker
than CE but I don't use this feature often enough to really be
concerned.
I like the fact one can control the size of the font whereas with CE it
was too small.
But I still feel like we should be able to have a current email program
with all the features of CE and more. I just don't see why programmers
cannot duplicate CE and add those features all of you experts have come
up with over the years.
In any case if you can send me CE 2.0v3 I would appreciate it. I had a
copy on my granddaughters previous Imac but it will be some time before
I get her machine up and running so that I could get it over on to her
G4. I just don't have the money to have the Imac serviced at this
time.
warm regards,
doug
On Feb 19, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Bill Williams wrote:
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...?" =-
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