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Hi All,

Looking for some advice on an email client for mac. I am very used to using outlook, in terms of being able to create a folder structure under my inbox and if needed create a pst (pst only on home based machine, not corporate environment)

So, as far as I can tell the inbuilt mail client cannot do either of these things.

Can anyone suggest any good alternatives that I can look at?

Thanks in advance.
 
You can get Outlook for the Mac but it is nowhere as good as the PC version.
 
I have folders in my inbox? I think? I don't know, I thought that was something the Mac client did.
 
I've used Mail for years. There are problems with it which Apple don't seem to be acknowledging. I gave the highly recommended Airmail program a go and couldn't be happier. Slicker, more intuitive, and much more reliable when it comes to fetching mail at scheduled intervals. :-)
 
I use thunderbird as a mail client. The Apple Mail one is hopeless.
 
andrewc said:
I use the standard Mac Mail App. You can have folders and smart mailboxes.
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So you can! I have just watched a youtube video on this. When you create a new mailbox (folder) and gives you the option of where to store it, for example on this MAC, where exactly does it store them Andrew do you know?
 
Christo said:
I've used Mail for years. There are problems with it which Apple don't seem to be acknowledging. I gave the highly recommended Airmail program a go and couldn't be happier. Slicker, more intuitive, and much more reliable when it comes to fetching mail at scheduled intervals. :)
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What are the issues you are referring to? What are the differences you find between mail and airmail.
 
antc said:
So you can! I have just watched a youtube video on this. When you create a new mailbox (folder) and gives you the option of where to store it, for example on this MAC, where exactly does it store them Andrew do you know?
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The Mailboxes are stored in the Library which is a hidden folder. In finder click GO --> Go To Folders and then type ~/Library/Mail/V2 and there are the folders for the new mailboxes.
 
antc said:
I used thunderbird briefly a number of years ago. Why do you prefer it to mail, what don't you like about mail?
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Everything. Layout is awful. It's unreliable and thunderbird generally just works.

Mail app on ipad/iphone has a major bug. If you move a message to another imap folder it doesn't move it. It only moves it in the Mail view of the folders. When you check with another mail client the message is in the original place not in the folder it should be in. After a refresh or two it will come back in Mail and yet it doesn't realise it's supposed to have moved it.
 
There's quite a selection of alternative clients, as illustrated by review comparisons here and here. I did download Airmail, as Mail in 10.9.1 had a particularly nasty bug wherein some accounts would stop being polled after a few days, but with no sign anything was amiss. That, thankfully, was fixed in 10.9.2, so I've not actually wound up using Airmail - which probably wouldn't have worked for me, as it apparently lacks any means of filtering incoming messages into your preferred destination folders, a facility I use extensively in Mail.

I still sort of miss Eudora, though. ^_^; (The original Qualcomm incarnation, not the Thunderbird reskinning)
 
I MUCH prefer Mac mail over Outlook and definitely over thunderbird, which when I did try it on Mac, still looked like it was from the dark ages and performed about as reliably :( [that was 2 yrs ago, never bothered since] You can still have folders within the inboxes for different accounts on Mac, rules, etc and whilst you might want to tweak the layout to suit [I do], it's always been reliable on the pop or imap settings have opted for on various accounts [not tried others to be fair] and the export/import for backing up mails on one machine before moving them to another worked far better, or rather, more intuitively. However, as always with these things, it is only my opinion and I am a bit odd at the best of times! :confused:

On the subject of mail though, anyone know a reliable way of scheduling the send? What I mean is, lets say I write an email at 10pm, but don't want to actually send it until 9am the following morning, when I also know I won't be sitting at the computer to do that.... Make sense? Like scheduling fb statuses or tweets? I tried a script a couple of years ago but could never make it run properly. Anyone come across anything that can do this and works on a Mac?
 
Yv said:
On the subject of mail though, anyone know a reliable way of scheduling the send? What I mean is, lets say I write an email at 10pm, but don't want to actually send it until 9am the following morning, when I also know I won't be sitting at the computer to do that.... Make sense? Like scheduling fb statuses or tweets? I tried a script a couple of years ago but could never make it run properly. Anyone come across anything that can do this and works on a Mac?
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Yv

Would this do the trick?

http://joannalaforet.wordpress.com/...l-on-mac-the-easier-way-automator-ical-alarm/
 
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