Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/22

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Subject: [Leica] OT mail program help please
From: hartzell at alerce.com (George Hartzell)
Date: Thu Nov 22 10:35:58 2007
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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.

In reply to: Message from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] OT mail program help please)
Message from hartzell at alerce.com (George Hartzell) ([Leica] OT mail program help please)
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