On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 05:10 PM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:In fact, the ONLY Mail feature that I'd like Eudora to add is the "Bounce to Sender" but with better implementation.
I'm not sure what you are using bounce to sender for. Most people use it (wrongly) to try to bounce spam. However, since 99.999% of spam comes from forged addresses, bouncing spam is simply abusing innocent parties or abusing your network resources by putting mail that will never be delivered back in the pipeline.
The "Bounce" feature basically says that my email address doesn't exist. I use it for spam, mailer-daemon messages, etc. If I miss one, I mark it junk
Here are features Eudora is lacking
Random signatures
Support for the OS X textedit framework so that all the text tools work (emacs keys, aspell, speak text, etc).
Contextual menus
Non-flakey IMAP support
Non-buggy mailbox drawer
TRUE smtp-auth support (my AUTH name may have nothing to do with the "username" of my email address. It is possible this is fixed in 6.0)
Launching applescripts on filter actions
More than 2 conditions on a filter
Integration with Address Book, iCal, iSync, and my cell phone.
Eudora can have several signatures; I only have two right now: 1 for this list and one for my Miata list.
As for the rest of your "missing" features, you, like a lot of others, seem to have been seduced by Microsoft's push for html mail when email is supposed to be PLAIN TEXT ONLY. Fortunately, Eudora allows you to choose which type of text you use. I especially like the ease of navigation to the next message in a mailbox thread. Eudora lets you set up the keys to move around. I use Cmd-Down Arrow; in Mail there isn't any easy way to go to the next message that I have found. I have to close the current message, and then open the next message, repeat ad nauseum. In Eudora, the one keystroke does it all. BTW at work, I have to use Outlook and it is as frustrating in navigation as Mail! In email programs, the KISS principle applies. Regarding Filters, I can choose among 8 headers, 15 content descriptions, and set up to 5 actions. For each Action, I can choose among 20 choices. By my reckoning that gives me a possibility of around 384 MILLION filters.
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Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney
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