On 2015-02-18 02:24, Fredrik Jonsson wrote:
I used to have a lot of rules that moved both received and sent mails
to folders per person/company/project etc. Always fretting where to
stora mail, "Is this more project or company or ".
With MailMate I dump everything I have processed in to "Archive" and
let all sent mails stay in "Sent". Quick and easy.
True, and MailMate's smart folder feature is
indeed a thing of beauty. However, after twenty
years of using and dealing with email, of having
loved Eudora until it expired, of having been
forced to use Outlook under various flavors of
Windows, of having used Apple Mail until its
integration with Gmail broke horribly, and
finally having moved my mail from Gmail to a
personal host with MailMate as my primary (but
not unique) mail access program, I'm not willing
to file my mail in such a way that *only*
MailMate will be able to intelligently retrieve
it for me. My mail client must be smart enough
to file my mail where I can find it without the
use of my preferred mail client. And so I depend
on rules.
Absolutely!
The way e-mail is going nowadays, it needs to be
able to be accessed on whatever device you are
currently using. If I use features only Mailmate
supports, it will require me to only access my
e-mail from the computer with Mailmate. While
this will suit a lot of people, the vast majority
are wanting the flexibility of accessing their
mail from computer, phone, tablet, web browser,
kiosk, etc.
For example, if I am visiting a client, and need
to check an e-mail to solve a problem, I do not
want to have to go home to be able to find the
message, then go back to the client to fix the
problem. I want to be able to find it on my phone
immediately.
I know IMAP is not exactly the best protocol for
e-mail, but it is all we have that allows this
flexibility. Solutions that stick to IMAP are
going to be most useful. (Unless Benny is
planning to make IOS and Android versions of
Mailmate....)
David
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