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== Absolute must features == | |||
I've been using Eudora since 1993. After cleanup, I now have "only" 2.5GB of mail. | |||
<b>Why I use Eudora over anything else:</b> | |||
-- fast search, boolean search | |||
-- search result is presented as a mailbox with all mailbox features (drag-drop of messages,...) | |||
it's just as much about the user interface as about the search speed. | |||
-- ability to see a message without actually flagging it as read (the preview pane of a mailbox window) | |||
-- ability to change the subject line (many people use badly phrased subject lines) | |||
-- ability to choose an smtp relay personality | |||
-- multiple windows: separate windows for mailboxes and for messages. I would even like to have separate windows for mail folders (instead of just one window "Mailboxes" with all folders) | |||
-- colouring of messages. Please let me have more colours than 8! | |||
<b>Features I never use:</b> | |||
-- spelling checking<br> | |||
-- mood watch<br> | |||
-- check mail every n minutes<br> | |||
-- IMAP | |||
<b>Features I dislike:</b> | |||
-- attachments are all in one single folder. They should be kept with the message's mailbox. That would allow me to move a mailbox to an archive. | |||
<b>Features I would like to have:</b> | |||
-- distributed mailboxes. In the Finder I classify files by subject using (nested) folders. But I cannot put the e-mails and their attachments also in that structure.<br> | |||
Hence I cannot make a backup of all files of a subject onto, say, a DVD, by burning the corresponding folder: I must separately ensure the mailboxes are backed up too, and also find the attachments! | |||
I can put a mailbox in another folder than the Mail Folder, and then put an alias of the mailbox into the Eudora Mail Folder. But I have to do it manually and it does not work for the attachments (see "dislike" above).<br> | |||
An item "Place mailbox" in the "File" menu could allow me to move a mailbox or mail folder plus all its attachments in the logical place where it belongs.<br> | |||
This is in fact my greatest frustration with all mail systems: they consider mail to be one monolithic data base, not a set of documents. Eudora keeps the mailboxes as separate text files, but it's still all in one big folder. | |||
Robert. | |||