Hey, Mac users!

[George K]

I've been using Apple's Mail.app forever.

What do you use? Why?

Klaus mentioned he likes Thunderbird from Mozilla, but I don't know why.

[Klaus]

If you are happy with Apple Mail there's no reason to consider something else.

If there's something you are unhappy with I can tell you whether that's better in Thunderbird.

A few random properties of Thunderbird that I like which may not be common in all other email clients.

• support for pure text emails
• somewhat decent line breaking
• good PGP integration
• customizable filter (which I use a lot to pre-sort emails)

[George K]

@Klaus said in Hey, Mac users!:

If you are happy with Apple Mail there's no reason to consider something else.

If there's something you are unhappy with I can tell you whether that's better in Thunderbird.

The ability to "send it later?"

[Klaus]

@George-K said in Hey, Mac users!:

The ability to "send it later?"

You mean later when you start your dial-up modem to connect to AOL and go online?

[George K]

@Klaus said in Hey, Mac users!:

@George-K said in Hey, Mac users!:

The ability to "send it later?"

You mean later when you start your dial-up modem to connect to AOL and go online?

I got on the internet (and not AOL, I might add) via dial-up in 1994.

How old were you then, 10?

[Axtremus]

@George-K Gmail recently added a "scheduled send" feature that lets you specify on what date and time to send a particular email.

[George K]

@Axtremus said in Hey, Mac users!:

@George-K Gmail recently added a "scheduled send" feature that lets you specify on what date and time to send a particular email.

Thanks. However, I have to use my .gmail account to take advantage, right?

[Axtremus]

@George-K said in Hey, Mac users!:

Thanks. However, I have to use my .gmail account to take advantage, right?

Yes, but you can set Gmail up to send email that appears to have been sent from you@yourCustomDomain.org , such that the recipient "sees" the email as coming from you@yourCustomDomain.org, and when he hits "reply" he will reply to you@yourCustomDomain.org.

[Rainman]

One of the features I love in Outlook, is the ability to double-click the subject on an incoming mail, and leave myself a note in the subject line. I tried the folders, flags, etc., but it always became unmanageable.

Being able to edit the subject line reinforces the subject in my mind. Not sure if other emails work that way, I recall Eudora did, years ago.
Works really well, at least for me. I like being able to look at the In box and keep track of emails I need to respond to. Sorry about ending with a preposition, not sure what was up.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Rainman said in Hey, Mac users!:

Sorry about ending with a preposition, not sure what was up.

It's not strictly incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition and never has been; give yourself some slack. It's just generally a good idea to try not to, because prepositions are very "weak" words in relation to their role in providing meaning for the sentence. Verbs are the strongest as they're the only words that can imply a timeframe, followed very closely by nouns. Because there's a pause at the end of a sentence, the last word in a sentence has more time to resonate with you, and so it's better to end on a word that contributes more to your meaning.

tl;dr: It's good writing practice to not end a sentence with a preposition, but you're by no means opening up the ninth gate of hell if you do, so fuggedaboudit.

[Rainman]

Thanks, Aqua.
Glad to know that's where things are at. Certainly cheers me up.
And the preposition thing, won't bother me any longer since it's over.
Language restrictions are on the way out. Nothing to be concerned with.

How's that. I'm freed up!