Sunday, November 10, 2002

OS X Mail: Getting Happier All the Time. I switched one of my main email accounts over to the Mail app in OS X about a week ago now. I'm pretty happy with the result. I had heard the app was sluggish. It's clearly a bit slower than Eudora, but the time I "lose" waiting for mail to process is more than made up for by the time I'm saving not having to deal with spam. The spam filter in this program is really quite awesome. I am at a point after just a week -- and having just added a second main email account a couple of days ago -- where I see one or two spams a day. Contrast that with a couple dozen prior to the switch. Very cool. This morning, Mail did something else cool for me. My primary SMTP server was down or unreachable for some reason. I tried to send an email. After trying for a bit, I got a dialog that said, "That mail server isn't responding. Want to try one of your others?" It gave me a choice of using my .mac SMTP server. I said, "sure." Mail zipped right out. Cool. Eudora doesn't have that feature. 9:24:52 AM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

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