Okay, so I've been a *paid* user of Powermail 4 for I don't know, better then 6 months. And I've been fairly happy. However Thunderbird has been coming on strong, and I've installed it on a ton of friends computers, and they've been totally thrilled. So here it is, I hate to give up on something I've paid good money into, but I see holding on to something just because I paid for it as a greater evil (two wrongs and all that).
So here's where I'm at: Powermail Pros: I paid for it. It's better then Mail It's more Stable then Mail. I have all my email/accounts/etc in it. I have all my rules setup in it. Search engine (Foxtrot) works right. Pretty stable on my 1Ghz TiBook Powermail Cons: I paid for it No built in spam filter IMAP implementation is lacking. Crashes on my MDD Dual 1.25Ghz at least once a day. Interface isn't as slick as Thunderbird Tunderbird Pros: Free Nice, Customizable Interface Open Source Spam Filter Regular Updates Stable (hasn't crashed yet) Palm Support coming News Thunderbird Cons: Unknown Future/Not Fully developed Open Source No AppleScript (and unlikely in at least the near future) Import is lacking A little more bloat So talk me out of moving to Thunderbird. -Austin P.S. don't remind me of what version I'm running right now, I'm aware, it's been the most stable for whatever reason on this machine.
