Ben,
your thoughtful note gave me a slight deja vu feeling, thinking of my
experience with Claris Emailer, which I've used years ago til it got
abandoned. Luckily there was PowerMail filling the gap, and with its
outstanding import/export-filters superior to its competitors of its
time. So my inbox mails reach back to 1996.
I chose PM because I didn't feel locked in a monolithic database
structure like that Outlook monster. And I like my attachments in a
separate folder (don't know if Apple Mail supports this). Evaluating
alternatives like gyazmail or Mailsmith regulary results in thinking
"why change my workflow? Didn't PM serve me well all those years?".
So I keep standing by my Mail client I like most. Every day it crashes
once (since version 4 til 6), but never lost data. It sure looks
dated, but never bloated. Except for MacSoup, it is the mac app I've
used the longest period.
I would like to see a basic "folder lock" feature, just to prevent
accidentally looks by guests clicking around. And, of course,
rewriting it running as a 64 bit cocoa app for activity monitor's
sake ;)
So I hope PM keeps playing in the premium client's league and stays
compatible even with Apple's upcoming 10.7 OS...
Cheers
Jörg
Am 02.09.2009 um 19:37 schrieb "Ben Kennedy" <b...@zygoat.ca>:
PowerMail is the classic example of a great product that's no longer
commercially viable enough to dump lots of speculative development
investment into -- in part due to having had its potential marked
decimated, for several years, by a product given away for free with
the
OS that's "good enough for most people".
