Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve Barbour writes: > > On Nov 21, 2007, at 1:01 PM, George Hartzell wrote: > > > Steve Barbour writes: > >>>> sorry LUG, I'm posting OT, as follows, but I need some advice > >>>> re... an e-mail program... > >> > >>>> I have been using Mail.app in OSX (now Leopard) for a long > >>>> time....I have many thousands of stored e-mail messages... > >>>> > >>>> I am looking for a new mail program...that will be ideal for me. > >>>> > >>>> To be ideal, it must have the following key features... > >>>> > >>>> 1.mature and robust > >>>> 2.OSX/mail.app compatible > >>>> 3.able to import mail.app messages > >>>> 4.opens and stores mail.app Mbox messages > >>>> 5.that will store mail as searchable messages, not in mbox format > >>>> 6.easily searchable > >>>> 7.allows easy removal of duplicate messages > >>>> 8.compatible with address book > >>>> 9.spamsieve compatible > >>>> > >>>> Does such a program exist? > >>>> > >>>> If so, what program best fills the bill? > > > > Hi Steve, > > > > Could you say a few words why you *don't* like Apples mail.app? It > > seems to fill most of your requirements above (don't know about 7 and > > 9).... > > > > Knowing why mail.app doesn't work for you might help people make > > useful suggestions. > > I want only a lean mail.app on my computer, and keep all the (vast) > mail archives on an external hard drive that is completely/easily > searchable... > > > I haven't figured out how to do this yet George...I also want to > search and remove duplicates from the archives.... Thanks for the additional information. If I understand, you're more or less happy with the user interface and behaviour, and etc.... of Apple's mail application, right? Your big issue seems to be that you have a big horde of mail archives from which you'd like to be able to remove duplicate messages and then search through them conveniently. Does the search capability in apple's mail app, and/or in spotlight meet your needs? How big is the archive? Is it really important that they be kept on a separate hard disk (just a disk space issue, or security, or ???)? Would it be ok if you had one tool that you used to read and send email, and another separate tool that let you browse/search through the archives or do you need to be able (e.g.) to pop up an archived email and respond to it in the same way that you respond to current messages? What's your nerd quotient (on a scale of 1 - 10, my mom's a 2.1, Brian's an 11)? In other words, how comfortable are you using your computer as a tool vs. a polished application? Do you have a good backup practice, so that if you experiment with something that goes blooey (sorry for using technical terms :)) you can recover? g.