Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Jan 22, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > >> Apple Mail is one of the worst mail clients I've used. Especially >> if you >> have IMAP mail instead of POP3 as it doesn't fully support the >> IMAP4 spec. >> >> I use Mozilla Thunderbird, which is excellent, although it doesn't >> talk >> to OS X's Address Book. > > I've been using Mail since 2001. The first couple of versions were > pretty poor. The current version, v2.1, works well enough for my > needs. I have mail services that are both POP3 and IMAP ... it does > fine with both. The integration with the Address Book and other > utilities works well too. > > When I tried Thunderbird, it made a terrible mess on my system. But > that was a while ago, I haven't looked at it in the past couple of > years. > > Email clients are just like editors ... everyone has their > preferences. Almost all work well enough and annoy us anyway. > > Godfrey
I agree on the preferences thing, everybody has theirs. Note Mail's IMAP problems don't show unless you have a setup where folder subscriptions matter, like a UW-IMAP implementation with IMAP folders in the home directory, blackbox setups like Cyrus never have any other folders or files for Mail to pollute your folder listing with. Ironically, I prefer Mail.app under NeXTSTEP to Apple Mail, although there isn't all that much difference (The drawer annoys me). I've tried Mail recently (As of 10.4) and although they finally got the interface right, the IMAP still barfs on a vanilla UW-IMAP setup on a server that's also my shell server. Thunderbird's been pretty good since about 0.7, before that it had some major issues (Understandable in a early beta). -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
