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I've been using Postbox[1]. It's the power of Thunderbird with the clean GUI look of a native Mac app. It has emails in a conversation-y view and includes gmail

I've been using Postbox[1]. It's the power of Thunderbird with the clean GUI look of a native Mac app. It has emails in a conversation-y view and includes gmail.com shortcuts. It also has powerful smart folders. Plus, I can use Markdown-Here[2] to compose my emails in Markdown. [1]:http://postbox-inc.com http://postbox-inc.com [2]:http://markdown-here.com http://markdown-here.com

Groxx 13y ago
I think I've been happiest with Postbox, but holy cow, that periodic re-indexing is painful. Hooking up ~500k emails means it grinds away for minutes on a HD, something like once or twice every hour. That aside, it handled those 500k emails way better than e.g. Mail.app (whose performance routinely falls off a cliff somewhere back between 200k and 300k), synced quickly, etc and all without the normal annoyances that keep me away from Thunderbird. A very solid, cheap option. That said, the re-indexing eventually got annoying enough that I disabled a bunch of IMAP folders in Gmail and switched back to Mail.app. I'd love to find a real alternative, but everything else I've touched has been awful in absolutely-critical ways (usually one or more of: can't handle a couple hundred thousand emails at all, can't display HTML emails, can't stand the UI, or useless/nonexistent filtering tools).
- chao- 13y ago
  What "normal annoyances" keep you away from Thunderbird?
  - Groxx 13y ago
    The UI has always rubbed me the wrong way, which I haven't really quantified. Not "wtf, no gradients? fail", but just a preponderance of small things like weird defaults, chunks of menus / screens that are inconsistent with the rest of the application (so you end up checking 10 places for a simple thing), and minor inconsistencies with other applications that I keep re-discovering after using it for a few months that I have to go back and fix.
than 13y ago
I'll second Postbox. Search is fast, and it handles multiple accounts easily. Stable and clean.

Groxx 13y ago

I think I've been happiest with Postbox, but holy cow, that periodic re-indexing is painful. Hooking up ~500k emails means it grinds away for minutes on a HD, something like once or twice every hour. That aside, it handled those 500k emails way better than e.g. Mail.app (whose performance routinely falls off a cliff somewhere back between 200k and 300k), synced quickly, etc and all without the normal annoyances that keep me away from Thunderbird. A very solid, cheap option. That said, the re-indexing eventually got annoying enough that I disabled a bunch of IMAP folders in Gmail and switched back to Mail.app. I'd love to find a real alternative, but everything else I've touched has been awful in absolutely-critical ways (usually one or more of: can't handle a couple hundred thousand emails at all, can't display HTML emails, can't stand the UI, or useless/nonexistent filtering tools).

chao- 13y ago
What "normal annoyances" keep you away from Thunderbird?
- Groxx 13y ago
  The UI has always rubbed me the wrong way, which I haven't really quantified. Not "wtf, no gradients? fail", but just a preponderance of small things like weird defaults, chunks of menus / screens that are inconsistent with the rest of the application (so you end up checking 10 places for a simple thing), and minor inconsistencies with other applications that I keep re-discovering after using it for a few months that I have to go back and fix.

than 13y ago

I'll second Postbox. Search is fast, and it handles multiple accounts easily. Stable and clean.