Down with Mail.app!

So I gave up on Mail.app. I know a couple of people who couldn’t wrap their head around why I would settle for Mail.app in the first place. In retrospect, I wonder the same thing. I guess Mail.app was less cumbersome, slow, and irritating when I started to use it. Maybe I thought it would be less burdensome to my old desktop which was already laboring under the weight of Jaguar which was really slow and cumbersome by itself compared to 10.1 and Panther. Maybe the competition was a bit sad then. Entourage is bloated and I use it for school and school alone. Eudora never felt quite right on the Mac to me. I guess a bunch of things back then pushed me to Mail.app, and I guess it was OK for a while.

Mail.app has horrible IMAP support and I guess that’s what is driving me away. All of the waiting and the errors for problems that don’t exist get tired after a while. I’ve moved to Thunderbird and I’m very happy. I started playing around with it on my iBook and it’s very quick to load, receive, and send messages. That’s what I needed and that’s what I got. I’m going to miss the Address Book integration but I won’t die without it. Address Book is more important to cell/palm usage than to e-mail. I’ll survive.

What client do you use? Feel free to share your experiences.

Tags: Apple, Apple, email, gmail, Mail.app, OS X, Thunderbird

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