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From: Chris Ridd on 10 Mar 2010 15:16 On 2010-03-10 18:50:12 +0000, Martin-S said: > I can't get excited about any of the current alternatives, so I'm > watching the progress of Mailforge > <http://www.infinitydatasystems.com/mailforge/> with great interest. > It's certainly not there yet, but the fact that the devs are die-hard > Eudora users gives me hope. Apart from the price (I'm not sure a mail app is worth money) what's wrong with Mailforge? -- Chris
From: Martin-S on 10 Mar 2010 15:41 In article <7vqd02FrndU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > Apart from the price (I'm not sure a mail app is worth money) what's > wrong with Mailforge? I never tested it for very long, but last time I checked, it still didn't offer a fully customisable, *vertical* toolbar - old habits die hard. I'm also not sure, whether they are going to implement the fine-grained control currently available through the current x-eudora settings. But then, I'm not in a hurry. -- Martin
From: Steve Hodgson on 10 Mar 2010 16:16 On 2010-03-10 18:40:52 +0000, Tim Hodgson said: > The thing that's surprising me in my IMAP investigations is how uncommon > it seems to be for people to do server-side filtering - I mean filtering > of wanted mail into subfolders, rather than just spam filtering. I'd > assumed that would be a major and widely-used advantage of IMAP, more or > less eliminating lengthy fiddling about with every email client you try. I think it's probably just that there's not an easy way to do it? I use SieveScripts with fastmail.fm to perform server side filtering on some messages. The big advantage is that these messages (Amazon, mailing lists, specific senders etc) don't appear on my phone when I check for mail there but they are available in sub-folders if required and appear in Apple Mail. The SieveScripts are text-based which is great because they're easy to extend but perhaps a little intimidating and not particularly well documented. -- Cheers, Steve The reply-to email address is a spam trap. Email steve 'at' shodgson 'dot' org 'dot' uk
From: Chris Ridd on 11 Mar 2010 02:09 On 2010-03-10 21:42:51 +0000, Tim Hodgson said: > Steve Hodgson <hamrun(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> The SieveScripts are text-based which is great because they're easy to >> extend but perhaps a little intimidating and not particularly well >> documented. > > That does seem to be a common theme with all this stuff! It wouldn't be able to edit arbitrary sieve scripts, but I don't see why something like the rule editor currently in Mail.app couldn't be used to write sieve rules. -- Chris
From: David Sankey on 11 Mar 2010 05:47
In article <cgzjmthpzs-B646DF.18501210032010(a)news.simnet.is>, Martin-S <cgzjmthpzs(a)lzrpqi.net> wrote: > In article <1jf5a60.pbvo725ns1tdN%black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com>, > black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com (Jon B) wrote: > > > Regretfully I'm mainly using Entourage as the best of a bad bunch for > > work. We ditched PM a few years ago due to lacklustre IMAP support. > > I still use the last version of Eudora for all my IMAP accounts and it > works swimmingly well. I'm on 10.4, but apparently it continues to work > in 10.6 just fine. > > I can't get excited about any of the current alternatives, so I'm > watching the progress of Mailforge > <http://www.infinitydatasystems.com/mailforge/> with great interest. > It's certainly not there yet, but the fact that the devs are die-hard > Eudora users gives me hope. I too have still found nothing to replace Eudora. Mail is sort of OK, but AddressBook is a bit of a dog for coping with multiple sets of independently managed contacts. Entourage I use for Calendar, but even there if it involves anything more than just me I use Outlook on Terminal Server. Kind regards, Dave |