June 18, 2002
MailSmithery
What am I getting myself into? I wasn’t looking to change over to a new email client. Really, I wasn’t. But the consumer in me was enticed enough by the offer of the O’Reilly AppleScript in a Nutshell book being bundled with the current version of Mailsmith to actually crack open the wallet and place an order.
Since Photoshop 7.0 shipped, my only excuse for not migrating to OS X as my primary operating system was my current (read: extremely comfortable) email client. I’m proud to maintain that I still use Claris Emailer, in all of its vintage, unsupported, end-of-lifed, application glory. I’ve played with the demo of MailSmith on and off for the past couple of weeks and have been duly impressed. MailSmith doesn’t do everything Emailer does or in the same way. However, it does do enough of the things that I primarily use Emailer for — and does them very well. That’s really the point, isn’t it? Now I have no excuse to use, no crutch to lean on, no reason whatsoever not to make the switch. I guess the only thing standing in my way is the ominous task of importing 70,000 or so mailbox items from my Emailer database into MailSmith. If anyone currently using MailSmith has any tips (or gotchas to watch out for) to share, prior to me diving headfirst into the pool, please let me know.
Ah, can’t you just smell the adventure?
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