Martin Pickering wrote:
I think it's getting close to crunch time for me, too.
I note Chris' comments about Mail and Thunderbird.
My preference would be for Mail since it's so well integrated but it has
(for me) serious drawbacks. I wondered if Chris (in particular) had an
answer.
I chose to move ultimately to Thunderbird, after a three-year stopover
with PowerMail. Tbird is NOTHING like Emailer, but extensions make it
feature rich, and I like using an email client which is being updated
daily (literally).
1. In emailer I have dozens of accounts set up because each time I sign
up for a newsletter or a forum I use a different email address. In order
to post to a newsletter I have to use the appropriate "From" address.
Apple Mail doesn't let me create more than one account for the same
domain. (OK it allows comma-separated email addresses but that's awkward
to use since I often don't know which email address I used for a
particular newsletter).
I'm confused by this first issue. Could you give me a couple examples
of generic email addresses you would be using as your "From" addresses?
I'll then let you know whether Thunderbird can handle this easily for you.
2. Apple Mail lets me change the message subject of an incoming message
*only* if I first drag the message into the "Drafts" folder. I can do
that (it's a pain) but when I drag it out again, any links which arrived
as blue, underlined, clickable are no longer so.
In Thunderbird, with the help of a free extension (I'm not sure which
one --- it is either called "TB Header Tools Extension" or "Mnenhy"),
you can easily change ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING in any email in your
database. Subject, header, text, everything can be edited. Just this
morning, I emailed a vendor requesting a tracking number for a product
which was shipped to me yesterday. When he didn't reply, I called him
and got the information. Rather than keeping the number on a slip of
paper, I edited my copy of the sent mail to which he didn't reply,
entering the tracking number at the very top of the email text. VERY
convenient. It almost makes me feel like I'm, uh, organized or something.
3. I can set the colour of a message title but the colour forms a great
swathe of background around the text, instead of simply coloring the text
itself. It looks horrible!
Thunderbird has built-in color labeling, though it is different than
Emailer's. When the unselected email is viewed in a list, it shows the
color you have chosen. If the email is selected for reading, but the
Subject line is not the live field, the Subject text becomes blue, the
same as any selected email. If the Subject line itself is the live
field, the label color gets that look which you are describing as
"horrible". Of course, if you hit the Tab key, the email text becomes
the live field and the Subject no longer looks "horrible".
---Jay
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