Definitely need a new mail app

[redbird]

I started my computer up this morning, and the Mac built-in email client told me that my mailbox index had been damaged, please close and restart to rebuild it. It's now estimating another 58 minutes for this process.

The thing is, this is the second time it's done this, and the first was only a couple of months ago. I just hope it rebuilds a little more smoothly this time.

A few weeks ago, in a more general discussion, someone recommended the MailMate app. Has anyone here used that? Or have other suggestions for a mail app for MacOSX?

I want to be able to download messages from my ISP and gmail, while leaving copies on the servers for a little while (so I can keep an eye on things if I'm traveling—the message I downloaded on Tuesday in Seattle might be something I want to see from someone else's machine on Friday) and sort things into different mailboxes and folders, both automatically by matching attributes and by hand. And probably several other things.

Basically, I want Eudora back.

ETA: It seems to have rebuilt smoothly this time, but even smooth recovery takes 90 minutes.

Comments

[bibliofile]

We're all reasonably tech competent people who have been working with computers for decades, and yet we all want Eudora back. Why is it that this one set of functions that worked so well hasn't been improved upon? I don't know anyone who misses more than a single feature from say WordPerfect for DOS or early MS Word. Why can't we have nice mail-managing things? I ask you.

Signed, will be looking for a new solution once I acquire a new computer.