I don’t think they’re wrong to do it-I think it’s part of the basic functionality you expect when you buy a computer. For most people it’s easily good enough, if not great.Īnd Apple should include a Mail app.
#Getting to mailsmith free
The thing is, there is little economic incentive to create an email app when one comes free with the system-and that free one is good. It may be that the only hope is that the Mail folks will add these features. I’m not drawing anything or applying gradients or moving shapes around-I should be able to set the mouse aside. I haven’t tried TypeIt4Me or TextExpander yet, though I probably will, to get 5 (editor-with-macros).īut that still leaves me clicking like crazy.Įmail is, or ought to be, a keyboard thing-it’s about reading and writing. (If the plugins work for you, then you’re lucky and I’m envious.) But there are plugins that are supposed to give me 1 and 2. I chalk this up to the fragility of the undocumented and unsupported Mail plugin system-I don’t fault the plugin developers. They don’t-I get hangs and run into deal-stopper bugs. I could also deal with Mail better if the various plugins worked reliably. I could get past some of this if there were still a scripts menu in Mail and I could assign keyboard shortcuts to scripts.
Mailsmith is awesome in many ways, but it doesn’t do IMAP-and I’m using IMAP because of my iPhone. (Though I could be wrong.)Īnd GyazMail, Eudora, and pine don’t do all of these. Also, from a quick look, it appears that 1, 2, and 5 are not done in Thunderbird either. Thunderbird, of course, is so not-Mac-like that I can’t deal. I count it as doing 5-editor with macros-because you can use a real text editor with it.) (I could overlook the Terminal-ness of it if searching multiple mailboxes was easy.
Mutt does 1, 2, 4, and 5-but not 3 and 6. Editor with macros (think BBEdit’s clippings, TextMate’s snippets, vim’s abbreviations).
#Getting to mailsmith plus
No clicking-or tabbing plus arrow arrow arrow arrow arrow arrow arrow arrow arrow-to go to a mailbox.ĥ.
There are a few things I want in an email app that I can’t get in one package:ġ. I’ve managed to start using just one email client-Apple’s Mail app-and I like a lot of things about it.īut it drives me crazy, too, with all the clicking I have to do.
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