On Jun 12, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Tim Hodgson wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:32 pm -0400, Bill Lane wrote:
Sorry to say, I also switched from PowerMail to Thunderbird last
year,
I don't think I've come across a mailing list before where so many of
its members are no longer using the app under discussion. Should
CTM be
disheartened by the loss of users or encouraged by their lingering
interest? :-)
Right now I am using Apple Mail in preference to PowerMail, but I do
keep the latter installed. The main thing that drove me out of
PowerMail was the inflexible (to me) message access options. I like
to keep an empty Inbox, and also like to have my messages filed in
ways that make sense to me. It is also very important to me to be
able to flag messages as needing action. I _don't_ want to have to
constantly refile messages in and out of a 'todo' mailbox. Apple
Mail's Flag function with a smart folder serves me admirably. With
PowerMail, I can label messages and then Search them, but it is
clunky, awkward and too many steps. If I could save 'Search'
criteria for instant access (instead of having to re-input), or if
the Search function were scriptable, allowing me to save searches as
Applescripts, I would probably go right back to PowerMail.
I did try Thunderbird, and found that (at least on my hardware) the
interface felt unfinished and inconsistent (e.g. - why should I have
to double-click a 'reveal triangle' when the folder is highlighted,
but only single-click when it is not?). I was also very frustrated by
the lack of Services.
I don't care about the idea of PowerMail's interface being 'old-
fashioned', if I understood the criticism correctly. I moved to
PowerMail from Claris Emailer (which my wife still uses on her Quadra
650), and still like the way it is laid out.
At worst, we'll continue to use PowerMail here, when I manage to drag
Lady Technophobe kicking and screaming from System 7 to OS X. Her
video card appears to be giving out, and I have a nice G3 iMac
waiting for her. :^)
- Don
Don Zahniser
PowerBook G3 (Pismo), 768 MB RAM, OS X 10.4.11
