Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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.... Steve > > > g.