I'm a potential Mahogany user - I am looking for a cross-platform mail program that I can use both under Linux and Windows. I have used Netscape mail for a long time and was very happy with 4.x. I used Netscape 6.x for about 5 minutes (like everyone else) and went back to 4.x. I recently upgraded to 7.x and, while it is alot better than 6.x, it has problems. Primarily, they pulled the Microsoft stunt of rearranging all the menus, changing the shortcut keys, and making features that I really liked not work anymore. I found Mozilla to have the same problems (that is, with regard to the Mail program, Netscape neither broke nor improved anything from the Mozilla baseline that I could see).
I downloaded Mahogany to see if it addressed any of my concerns. I do like having a choice of editors (such as being able to just create plain text emails). However, Mahogany seems to have a similar "problem" as Netscape with regard to addressing. I would like to see if anyone is working on this aspect of Mahogany, and if so, if they could implement this feature. The issue is this: with Netscape Mail 4.x, I could type the following on the "To:" line:
ben, bob, smith, larry, julie
And when I hit <enter>, it would automatically expand each of those items by searching the address book. It was able to search on first name, last name, email address, nickname - just about anything in the entry - in trying to locate a matching item. It did an amazing job of it. It would then mark any item that it didn't find a match for, and somehow (perhaps a popup - I don't recall) it would ask you to resolve any that had multiple matches. It was perfect.
With Netscape Mail 7.x, if I enter a comma-separated list like that - it expands the last one in the list and leaves the rest of the comma-separated list unchanged - swell. It also seems to have an eerily non-deterministic search algorithm - that is, even with only one item on the "To:" line, sometimes it finds the matching item in the address book, sometimes it doesn't. I can hit <enter> after each name (instead of the comma-separate list), but since the search algorithm is so pathetic and unpredictable, just trying to get a correct list of addressees is a pain.
So, I tried the same thing with Mahogany. Mahogany will split the comma-separated list up, but it also only expands the last item in the list (it assumes the default domain for the first N-1 items in the list). Mahogany also seems to have trouble locating a matching item if it isn't the <last name> or something - I don't recall what it liked to look for.
I really like the way the old Netscape Mail (4.x) worked, but the IMAP support in it isn't very good. If Mahogany can allow me to be cross-platform, provide good IMAP support, and make creating the "To:" list seamless like Netscape 4.x, I'll be a happy man.
Any thoughts/comments?
Thank you,
Ronnie Killough
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