Well, I looked into using Mail way back in System 10.2, and when I recently did an overhaul of my computer a few months back, I re-examined it by importing my PowerMail database into Mail.
What I noticed is that for every mailbox, there is this little clock that fills in as Mail gathers all the information for that mailbox. It is similar to the little circle in Address Book as it is gathering information from or putting information onto my .mac account. What seemed to be the case with Mail was that every time I needed to see something, this little clock would appear, and I would have to wait while Mail looked for things. And, if I did a search, the search would give me bad results until Mail "was ready", but it didn't make clear to me that the search was not accurate. I depend on the fact that a search, when complete, is complete, and if it isn't complete, then the app will make it clear to me that the search wasn't complete. However, I would switch to Mail in a heartbeat if I thought it could manage and search through my extensive email database as well as PowerMail does. A -- Alan Harper <a...@alanharper.com> 5170 Parkridge Drive Oakland, CA 94619 Portraits of a Seductive Landscape Images of Baja California http://www.alanharper.com Mark Gerber (markger...@charter.net) said on 9/2/09: >On 09/02/2009 at 8:47 AM, the universe arranged itself so, to many >involved, it appeared that Jan M.J. Storms said: > >>Some features that would help PowerMail compete: >> >> 1) notes and tasks >> 2) integration with iCal >> 3) wysiwyg that at least matches Mail's >> 4) integration with Marketcircle's Daylite >> 5) support for Microsoft Exchange >> 6) ... >> >>I realise that making a wish list is easy. Implementing features takes a >>lot of work. But a reinvigorated PowerMail may be what it takes to >>ensure a commercially viable future. > >Yesterday, for the first time in a few years, I started looking a little >more closely at Mail. The impetus for this was Chronos' upgrade >announcement of SOHO Organizer, which I use quite extensively. One of >its new features is the ability to select a contact and show all e-mail >correspondence associated with that contact. Of course, it only works >with Mail. But it's a feature I could really use. > >Until now, I hadn't known of several of Mail's features, such as Notes >and To Dos and integration with iCal. But I can see how those could be >very handy and I look forward to PowerMail gaining some or all of these >features as suggested by Jan. The thing that stopped me from looking at >Mail for the time being, is it's apparent lack of search features which >seems to be limited to a single Find field. I could be wrong about that, >but that alone will keep me with PowerMail for the time being. > >On the other hand, if Mail strengthens that feature and PowerMail >doesn't grow to include some of those options from Mail, I'll be taking >another look. > >Mark >---- >Mark Gerber ><http://www.gerberstudio.com> ><http://www.theispot.com/artist/mgerber> > > >
