Battle testing over – Mailsmith put on the scrap heap
I tried it, but it failed. I’ve gone back to the trusty Microsoft Entourage, but I’ve learnt a little more about AppleScript in the process and hopefully I’ll be able to use that to script Entourage.
So what’s wrong with MailSmith? Well, here’s my big list of gripes:
* It’s too damn slow. – Entourage is no speed daemon, but it gets things done accpetably. MailSmith would regularly lock up for 10-15 seconds doing very basic things like moving messages between folders.
* No HTML mail – this is a fact of life now, I’m sorry – live with it guys. The whole ‘we don’t need HTML mail’ is a nice attitude, but CVS Spam is one piece of HTML mail I need to get (and opening a browser to read each CVS commit is a pain in the ass)
* Weird key bindings – I ended up rebinding a lot of keys by mysefl, but how can you not have a key bound for ‘Forward Mail’ by default?
* The obvious options are hidden – somehow I don’t think the MailSmith people process a lot of mail, because for me most of the operations I do regularly are hidden.
Oh well – it was worth a try. Back to Entourage until I find something better.
(PS for those who suggested Mozilla Mail or Thunderbird – I feel seriously sorry for you, those are two of the worst mail clients I’ve ever used 
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