aob_ml sez: >No I haven't already decided, I'm playing devils advocate here. And I'm >waiting for some point to come in and convince me.
The thing is that mail clients are an incredibly personal preference, so nothing anyone says is likely going to convince you. People try mail clients until they feel comfortable with one, no matter its "flaws," and then they pretty much stick with it for a very very long time. It's pretty obvious that many many people are not having the issue with PowerMail which seems to be the major one for you (stability). While others post here about stability issues, the majority either fix them or never have any (and a majority of PM users probably don't even know this list exists, so who knows what percentage of them have trouble or not :) ). Yet, you won't take that as a point because of your personal experience -- and there's nothing wrong with that. Email is a very important tool these days and you have to use a client which works for you, no matter other people saying "But I have no issues at all!" >When I mentioned that $25 for SpamSieve was a deal breaker, it's not that >$25 is a lot of money, it's that I'd feel like a sucker for paying for >something that's free elsewhere. Again, this is a personal thing. You see it as being a "sucker." Many here see the fact spam filtering (of the kind you want -- I can filter spam with Mail Filters pretty well which are included) isn't built into PM as an opportunity. For example, many here tout SpamSieve, and it's wonderful. I, on the other hand, use SpamCop.Net, which filters my email before I even get it. The stuff never even makes it to my system thanks to its combination of subscriber reporting of spam and server-based SpamAssassin rules. I don't have to be at a client office and wait while porn mail downloads to my system over their 56k line as I attempt to get that tech response back, etc. The $30 per year subscription is well worth it to me. I checked out that ThunderBird page. It holds absolutely no appeal even though it is free. If free is all someone cares about (or all they can afford) then so be it. You'll never argue them out of it either because they are cheap, or they just can't afford another alternative, or because whatever it is does what they need. If ThunderBird's spam filtering is good enough for you and the client acts the way you want, then enjoy it! I stopped recommending mail clients to people a long long time ago. I simply tell people what I use and why, then I tell them to try several -- free or not -- to find one that fits them and the way they think and work. If they don't, then a good amount of time they spend on the Internet -- because email takes up an awful lot of time -- won't be very enjoyable. -- Michael Lewis Off Balance Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.offbalance.com
