![]() ![]() This is very handy for those of us who administer mailing lists. Stationery: The ability to have pre-built mail content, complete with headers, available from the message menu.The ability to search across multiple mailboxes and accounts, based on easy search terms.These were key to successful syncing with my smartphone, be it my old Treo, my current Blackberry, or whatever I use in the future. Lack of support for OS X technologies, notably integration with AddressBook and iCal.Lack of stability and compatibility with MacOS X 10.5 and beyond. ![]() Here’s a short list of the highlights and lowpoints, with full exploration to follow: To date I have made no contact with Goichi Hirakawa, GyazMail’s developer beyond sending him some money via my friend Kee Nethery‘s Kagi for his work. Looking further I could bend about 3% of the rest of it to my will, leaving a small percentage (do the math, there will be a quiz later!) remaining for the developer to fix, should I choose to bug him with requests. When I found GyazMail I was intrigued, as it appeared to do 95% of the things I wanted it to do right out of the gate. Entourage is another one I looked at and dismissed quickly as it reminds me too much of everything else in Microsoft Office: overly mouse driven with buttons galore, screen real estate taken up by unused elements, and an odd focus on integration with other Microsoft products, rather than integrating with ME. So much so that I would rather continue using Eudora. It reminded me of all the things I hated about NeXTMail, it’s predecessor under NeXTStep (which was really MacOS X Version Minus One… or perhaps MacOS X is really NeXTStep 5.5? …but I digress.) Mail.app is loaded with annoyances for me. I know, somebody will chime in and say it is working just fine for them… but it was getting unstable in my case. If you recall, I wanted to leave Eudora behind as it was becoming orphanware, and started showing some odd behaviors under 10.5. I’ve moved most of my relevant mail archives directly into GyazMail anyway, so this need is really only for the truly obscure stuff. ![]() I still fire up Eudora about once every two weeks, usually to search for some obscure older bit of correspondence. So happy I stopped noticing the fact that I was “in transition” away from Eudora, and just got settled into using GyazMail. It has been several months, and to be honest… I’m very happy. ![]()
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