I know this was just brought up, and everyone seemed to love PowerMail, or Mail.app.... but I was wondering if anyone knows of an OS X compatible email app that will allow multiple unique copies of itself to be run at the same time.
My wife and I share a computer at home, and we constantly lean over one another's shoulder to do a quick check of email. So I need an OS X email app that will let you run more than one unique copy of it. Logging out of OS X and back in as another user like Mail.app requires isn't acceptable. Neither is multiple "personalities" like Eudora does (because you can only have one personality running at a time). What I want is something just like Emailer, something that you can just duplicate the application, and double click the copy, and find yourself with a totally unique running copy of the application and all its supporting files. The frustrating thing is... Mail.app is SOOOO close. If it could stop sharing the prefs file, and allow you to actually EDIT where the mailbox is stored, it could do it. I might be able to find a way around the prefs file issue... but for some frustrating reason, apple puts a field and browse button to pick where to store the mailbox... but then has them disabled. So they just sit there teasing you! And no, just because I am looking for an OS X email app does NOT mean that I am leaving Emailer. 1: I still use Emailer at work which will not be OS X for a LONG time (my primary machine is a PowerMac 6500 so OS X isn't an option). And 2: I am only looking for alternatives right now, so I can decide how much effort I really want to spend in dealing with this unpacking problem. If there is a decent alternative, then I might just scrap Emailer at home and give up on the problem. Now that I really don't use AOL anymore, that is an option I can follow. I would like nothing more than to solve the unpacking problem, but it is a royal pain to test, and I just don't have the spare time (and if I did, I think there are some Baton Mail users waiting patiently for me to fix the attachment bug... which is actually pissing ME off since I found a workaround that is Emailer compatible and just don't have the time to put it in) And if I had THAT much time, I would just write a new Carbonized email client myself (as I laugh myself clean off my chair... although at least with my approach, it wouldn't be too difficult. I would never write one from scratch, but rather would write a GUI front end to a unix terminal app like PINE and let it do all the hard work. And yes, for those of you thinking of or trying to get others to write an app... that is a VERY big hint about how you can probably shortcut yourself to a finished product) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
