![]() Yesterday I spent an hour trying to figure out why it was no longer auto-filling an email group that she's the chief communicator for, and only succeeded in getting it to sometimes work, which is really worse than either always working or always not working. I absolutely hate it - unbelievably busy and unclear UI-wise, with anemic built-in support (and Googling for solutions means you wind up with answers that may apply to one of 15 years worth of releases, but not to your version). ![]() I've had to set up Outlook 365 for my mom, because she's retired university staff and they recently switched to Office 365, warning that continuing to use Thunderbird could result in catastrophic loss of email. But I'd be losing out on a lot of the OS integration PowerMail provides. I've been eyeing alternatives for a while, and if I had to jump ship today I'd probably go with Postbox. As far as I can tell it's just a one-man operation, and its clientele is the people who've been using it since the dawn of time it's not attracting any new customers. It still works as well as it ever has (email itself has remained unchanged for decades except for the adoption of IMAP) - lightning-fast in-app searching, great Spotlight support, syncs with Contacts, and has Applescript extensibility - but I worry that eventually it'll break under a future OS update. ![]() I've been using PowerMail, an ancient client, for years and years. Aside from that, I prefer a desktop UI, rather than a web app trying to pretend to be a desktop app, along with all the OS hooks that brings (Spotlight searching being prime). I need to have access to it whether or not I have access to the internet, and by having it stored locally (both on my laptop and desktop machines) I can keep multiple backups (Time Machine & clones). Click to expand.My email database is essential business information that goes back to 1997.
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