Hi Chris-
I know what your mean about personal preferences being unique to
individuals.
However I was wondering if a matrix or comparative features could be
made for all those mail programs that more or less resemble CE. That
way we could view them all and see which ones offered the most features
similar to CE.
I'm a believer in competition but my idea is that we should compete for
service. To create, provide and maintain equip. and programs etc. that
offer the best service, not necessary which makes the most bucks. I
would pay more to have better equip. and service. There are some
industries though that I feel should be more or less standardized, like
communication for example. We all should have the ability to
communicate freely and efficiently. However, isn't it true the MS
really controls things in the computer world and thus we really don't
have true competition.
regards,
doug
On Feb 17, 2006, at 11:49 AM, chris wrote:
I am most interested in why you did not care for Mail. Since I lost my
Claris Emailer due to my old computer dying I have been using my
granddaughters and its Mail program and while I prefer CE I am sort of
used to Mail now and I'm not sure I can list why I prefer CE.
I'm not sure I can really say for sure why I didn't like Mail. I just
didn't. Nothing it it worked the way I wanted or expected.
The other question I have is why is it that so many of you
professionals prefer CE and why then don't the designers of these
other
programs incorporate what CE has that would be of benefit. In other
words why don't they come up with a standard mail program that
incorporates the best features of all these other programs?
Probably because it is very subjective. For instance, many CE users say
PowerMail is very CE like and find it a good alternative. The PowerMail
developers even say they tried to mimic much of CE's features, look,
and
feel. But when I tried PowerMail, I just about HATED it. I found it to
be
very UN-CE like. It was lots of little things about PowerMail that I
disliked.
I tried MailSmith, and found it to be much more CE like based on what I
like about CE. I might be the only person that has that opinion...
except
maybe Rich on the list, but I think he is biased being that he works
for
BareBones, the people that wrote MailSmith :-)
I think my point to all this is, I'm not sure anyone can really give a
hard and true list of what they do and do not like about a utility they
have to use every day. It is a personal opinion, and is one of those
things that you just know you either do or do not like it. I'll know
the
perfect email client for me when I find it (which is one of the
reasons I
may have to write it, because only I can really know what is perfect
for
me, anything else will always be a compromise).
Meanwhile, my MailSmith demo time is about to run out, so I need to
get a
move on with finding a new client, or shell out the bucks to buy
MailSmith. (I've been delaying, because my new iMac is still in my
living
room connected to my DVR as I'm making a DVD boxed set of a TV show I
recorded and no such set exists on the market yet... as soon as that is
done, my iMac will be moved to my computer room. At that time, I'll
shut
down my old iMac and finally be forced to stop using Emailer for my
email
at home)
-chris
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