On Jul 10, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Eric Johansen wrote:
I'm currently using Panther, moving to Tiger next month. If I'm to go
to Mail or Entourage, what's the consensus of the still remaining
Emailers here?
Eric,
I'm going to come out of the closet and admit that I already migrated
to Mail, but I still subscribe to this list for old time's sake and
as a hedge against the great unknown future.
I have no knowledge at all of Entourage, so I'll just give you a very
unsophisticated user's impression of Mail.
The first big deal was that it successfully imported all of my
Emailer files. I would probably have turned back if this had not been
so. I was using Panther when I made this move, and have now gone to
Tiger and have been delighted to see that all the old Emailer stuff
is still there.
I don't find the "look and feel" of Mail to be equal to that of
Emailer, but I can live with it rather than launch Classic every time
I open Emailer. Also, for the short time that I stayed with Emailer
after going to Panther, I was unable to find a way to make it appear
in anything but a tiny font that I found too challenging for my old
eyes. There may well be a way to fix that, but I asked this list for
a solution and got no replies, and that was the final straw that made
me move on.
I should add that I don't appear to have ever used some features of
Emailer that some folks on this list seem to regard as vital. But
since I often didn't even understand what they were talking about,
and when I did understand knew that it wasn't something important to
me, I just had to go with what suited me. For instance, I have no
need for all the scripts that people mention here . My Email life is
just not as complicated as theirs, probably because I'm not using it
to support a business. I create folders, file posts in them as
appropriate, create address groups, and perform other simple tasks
that are easily done in Mail. And I'm not willing to try to find ways
to filter out every last piece of spam when my ISP's spam blocker
seems to get most of them and its easy enough for me to delete what
remains. I only mention these things to ensure that you know my
priorities and can tell if they differ from yours.
I now defer to the people who may well be able to better answer the
question in a way more appropriate to your needs.
Bill McIntyre
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