I have no advice for you, but you are singing my song re Mavericks Mail, Airmail and Postbox.
On Friday, December 20, 2013 7:39:18 PM UTC-5, Doug Lerner wrote: > > Please forgive me if this is a double-post. I don't see my previous post... > > Why oh why did Apple mess up Mail in Mavericks so badly? It works just > fine in iOS! My most recent attempt to get Gmail accounts to work in > Mavericks Mail was yesterday, and I basically recreated the accounts. But > there was still too much weirdness. Like new mail arriving in "Archives" > sub-folders but not in the Inbox for some reason. And then I noticed that > some mail was being sent through the wrong SMTP server even though I had > checked "only use this server" in the settings! That could cause problems, > and even prove embarrassing if you are not careful. And then some email > stopped coming in again, like before. It sure is a mess. I can't believe > Apple let it out the door like this. > > So for the last few days, I've just been using Gmail directly in the web > interface. I have gotten to like multiple tagging, and the direct Gmail > interface lets you do that rather quickly. > But there are too many things about a web interface which make it awkward > to use every day. For example you can't drag-and-drop attachments into an > email. You have to use select, which is not always convenient. And having > multiple browser tabs open for mail is not fun. > > I was thinking, if I have to use Gmail more or less directly, Mailplane > might be a better choice. Because it does add a few things like > drag-and-drop that the web interface doesn't have. And I had good > experience with Mailplane Beta 3 when I tried it out a while back, and > found communication with the Mailplane team very nice. They are a friendly > group of people. > > But even Mailplane doesn't allow you to drag mail between accounts, right? > That is sometimes a problem. For example, a customer might email me at my > personal email account, and I really want to file them in their customer > folder in my work account. Is there any way to deal with this in Mailplane? > > The other sticking point, of course, is that Mailplane only works for > Gmail. Most of my accounts are Gmail, but I have one exchange account with > a customer, plus I have a few "regular IMAP" accounts that are on a hosted > server. For the "other, regular IMAP accounts" I understand there might be > a way to set up Gmail accounts for them and route them through Gmail. Does > that work well? Are there any instructions about doing that? > > If so, I suppose could use Mailplane for my Gmail accounts and live > without dragging between accounts, and use Mail app just for the Exchange > account. > > Also, what about backups? What does Mailplane actually keep on my > computer? And if it keeps databases on my Mac, do they play well with Time > Machine. > > I had also been trying Airmail for a while recently, and submitting but > reports, but it has too many quirks and bugs, and I was starting to feel > unsafe using it. For example: > > 1. Sent mail often does not get marked as sent to it would not show up in > the Sent folder, even in Gmail. > > 2. Deleting a single message would delete the whole conversation. > > 3. Composing problems: sent mail would lose indentation of things like > code samples. > > 4. Could not easily move between accounts (maintaining the original dates, > moving multiple mails at once). Of course you can't do that in Mailplane > either. > > 5. Could not choose any mail to "send again" - really necessary! Airmail > staff actually got argumentative about that when I mentioned it. Can we > "send again" in Mailplane? > > 6. Cannot easily read an unread mail and then go on to the next unread > mail in chronological order. I have to either read newest-to-oldest or > after deleting/archiving the current mail I end up at an older, > already-read mail. This is rather inconvenient. Can we do this in Mailplane? > > I tried Thunderbird, but even the latest version is quite "creaky and > slow" and has bugs with conversations. > > I was curious about Postbox, but it really puts me off that they have zero > person-to-person user support, and don't even have a user-to-user support > forums. And it seems people are complaining that it hasn't been updated in > quite a while. So I'm hesitant to invest my time in an app when I don't > know where it is going. Mailplane at least has support!!! > > Thanks for any feedback you can give me. > > doug > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
