15/02/04 Karl.Winkelmann : >>One tough change is using Mail which is so >>clunky beside Emailer. (using Classic on my machine is too slow so I >>can't go back to Emailer) >For most of us using OS X, Emailer works fine and speedily, but if you >don't need AOL and want to try a more Emailer-like email client you might >demo PowerMail for Mac OS X.
I tried PowerMail and was disappointed. I wrote something about that for a friend and found too many problems ranging from missing niceties to stupid behavior and instability. I was really surprised those guys could have missed so much of Emailer. Stupid examples: "to" and "from" columns are separated like in all other mailers except Emailer (so they tell you that you're the sender of every outgoing message and you're the recipient of every incoming messages, duh), message windows have a local menu to file the message like in Emailer except outgoing messages (don't we file outgoing messages too?), unread incoming messages are listed in bold but unsent draft messages aren't, setting a message from draft to "scheduled" sends it IMMEDIATELY contrarily to what the command name suggests (at least in French), the view pane in 3-pane view doesn't let you edit outgoing messages, when you add a recipient to an already sent message it barks throwing a nonsensical dialog that claims it's impossible while apparently letting you do it, etc. All that in a 5-minutes test session. The similarities are superficial, the developers obviously looked at Emailer's user interface but didn't dig much deeper (we're still discovering genious features in Emailer from time to time on the list, so thorough research would have been needed to achieve that kind of quality and obviously they didn't try, since they now have been developing it for longer than Claris did and still don't catch up on the cleverness front). PowerMail would be much better if they had subscribed to this list and learned or asked what really makes Emailer so good, apart from the extreme reliability which it owes to talented engineers no longer on the list. I don't mean to depreciate PowerMail though, as it's still a nice shareware and has some advantages too like its fast search engine. But maybe GyazMail would feel more friendly to basic Emailer users (not for advanced users, since GyazMail is low on features whereas Emailer only *seems* so). http://gyazsquare.com/gyazmail/ GyazMail -- An all-new email client for Mac OS X -- Unfortunately, advanced users who expect Emailer's invisible niceties or powerfull scripting have no alternative that I know of. The main problem is that average Emailer users take for granted many features that are considered "advanced" or "arcane" stuff in other mailers, or are just missing (for example I don't remember seing another mailer allowing to change the POP account's password which seems pretty obvious in Emailer; on the other hand I'm afraid some server admins may block that feature on their end based on the idea that no official user-level program knows about it). >Maybe there is some fixable reason why your CE is slow. Tell us what is >happening and maybe someone call help you fix it. Do you have enough >memory? > >I use an upgraded 7300 w/G3 500MHz and CE work really well for me in >Classic. CE works perfecly under Classic on my iBook G3 366MHz and even seems faster for network and AppleScript operations. At least it doesn't feel slower than in native OS 9. Slow performance with Classic is usually caused by low RAM and affects the whole system, not just the Classic apps (I have 320 MB on my iBook, I would give it 512 or more if it could handle it, your needs depend on the other apps you use). OS X also likes bigger and faster disks, especially 10.3 which is faster but requires enormous swap space. And never let an OS X boot volume fill up as bad things would happen. ---- VRic ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
