[pmmail-list] Life there somewhere!

[Richard Beeson]

The most important feature for me is the ability to define outgoing mail filters that work automatically, and the various operational advantages offered by having a 
separate file for each message. I tried Thunderbird for a year, and it's a nightmare in these areas. The only things it's good for are zooming in on images, 
showing messages with inline graphics, and that sort of thing. Last November it took me 3 whole days to archive two quarters' worth of emails, using Tbird's 
mulit-save function (a plugin). That finished me. With PMMail I can separate the wheat from the chaff automatically with the filters, and copy the files over to my 
archival HD using a simple file manager. No manual deletion of one file at a time, no renaming emails, etc. etc. 

What I do now is use PMMail on my first pass. It sorts the mail the way I want. I send my replies in PMMail. Although it is my default mail client, I do not have it 
clear the messages from the server. Once or twice a day, or once every couple of days, I download messages using Thunderbird. That way I can see the 
messages with inline graphics, or those that are so heavily formatted in HTML that they're hard to read in PMMail.

I don't bother anymore trying to archive anything in Thunderbird. Everything there gets deleted. (Most emails with inline graphics are jokes or spam anyway.)

This way I have the best of both worlds.

I tried to get Emil Fickel, who sells several utilities he ported over from OS/2 (EF Commander, EF Find, and so on), to pick up on PMMail. Tried to put him 
together with Robert Bradford, who owns the rights to PMMail and owns BMT Micro. (Think I have his name right.) Bradford was interested, but Emil ultimately 
did not pick up on it. If anyone knows a programmer looking for a product, there might be a way to resuscitate the program. 

Richard

On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:45:27 -0800, Phil Kane wrote:

>On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:14:51 +1300, Simon wrote:

>> ts a shame, because I really liked PMMail's user interface for
>> navigating email, it was just let down by sustained lack of
>> improvement in handling html and attachments, searching, and
>> spelling.

>  One of the most important features that I find in PMMail is the
>  ability too use an external text editor for composing messages.
>  AFAIK no other "popular" Win32 mail client has that.







Richard Beeson
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