Greetings, eMailer Mavens... As long as folks are yammering about eMailer alternatives, I've been using Mailsmith 2.1x for a while. It's rather like eMailer in many ways, does some things better, some not as well. Some pros and cons...
There's no Mailsmith 2 for OS 9.x. From the Manual: Mailsmith 2.1 requires Mac OS 10.2.2 or later, and Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later is strongly recommended. Mailsmith 2.1 is also fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.3. Nothing like the Auto File Log window, but it's my impression that no other client has a substitute for that, either. In any case, it wasn't a terribly important feature to me. For good or ill, it stores its email in a database, as does eMailer. It's my impression from monitoring both lists that Mailsmith's database is less corruption-prone than eMailer's. I have no figures to back that up... but notice that there are very few reports. On the other hand, the Mailsmith implementation of its database makes for some sluggish response when working with large mail folders. For someone like me, who has difficulty getting around to archiving and trimming the fat, that is sometimes irksome. On the other hand, responsiveness has been improving with each update. I use OneClick's eMailer interface and really love it. OneClick is not available for OS X, either. Neither client is as good without it... *sigh* I like eMailer's unadorned interface a bit better than Mailsmith's, even after getting accustomed to Mailsmith. It is incredibly flexible and scriptable. It uses BBEdit's text engine, or something like it, which makes for great text editing. Grep search and replace is available, though I've had less use for that than I'd imagined. It's handling of HTML email is exactly right for my taste... It extracts the text from HTML email and displays it if it can. It makes an HTML attachment of the original email, and a click on the attachment hands it off to the browser for display. Supposedly, it will manage to keep track of its attachments much better than eMailer does, though I haven't had occasion to test that feature. eMailer's ability with attachments is one of its weakest points. Of all the email clients, it has the best integration with SpamSeive, if that's important to you. It's kind of expensive, but comes bundled with SpamSeive. Hope this helps... Roger "Microsoft is a cross between the Borg and the Ferengi. Unfortunately they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to do their programming." -- Simon Slavin ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
