Re: Re: Searching multiple mailboxes?

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Tim K. (Gmane) wrote:
> Try Thunderbird or IMAPSize (great tool for other IMAP purposes too).

I see that IMAPSize is a Windows app.  I'm on Mac OS X.

Hypocritical off-topic rambling:
I've tried out Thunderbird before, I can't stand the interface.
(My employer's own Mail, before Tiger, is the best GUI mail client I've
ever used.. I had issues with it, but I still used it side by side alongside
pine all the time.  I don't like the way the UI has gone forward, IMHO 
towards being just like any other GUI mail program in many respects..
GNUMail has largely the old UI but is not usable to me for some other reasons,
possibly partially due to weirdnesses of my mail server.)   I liked Eudora
when I used POP a very very very long time ago, but for some reason 
it doesn't do IMAP "right" (or at least I don't like the way it does it).
I like most other programs' "delete messages then manually expunge" idea.

I realize this sounds totally trivial, but sometimes one "little" thing 
is what pushes one away from any program.  I want a GUI mail program that 
(optionally) showed me the mailbox list on the *right* side of the window.
Mail.app used to do that when it used drawers.

Actually, I've said it before, but a very very slightly GUI-fied pine would
actually come close to my perfect email program. In terms of GUI-fied, I
personally would mean optionally show inline images, and optionally VIEW [but
not create] HTML messages... and possibly optionally get out of the 
INDEX/MESSAGE VIEW metaphor so you could have both at one time.  Actually,
besides inline image viewing (and pine's view externally from message
attachments capability is a pretty decent workaround), about the only thing
I miss from a GUI mail program is being able to have multiple messages
open at the same time.   Yeah, I could have multiple pine sessions running
in different Terminal windows, but it's not quite the same thing.

> pine's search leaves a lot to be desired in my opinion, that's why I always
> run both pine and Thunderbird at the same time, each is good at different
> things (but probably use pine 90% of the time).

Yeah, that's the great thing about IMAP, multiple mail programs at once
without hosing your mailbox.
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