I use the default mail.app. If the Lion version is still as simple, easy to use and to my liking as the Snow Leopard one is, I guess I will be sticking to it. Otherwise I'll switch to something like Thunderbird or try out that Sparrow thing everyone seems to love.
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do you guys actually use the built in mail client?
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I don't use the OS X Mail client because it dosen't show all my Yahoo mail folders. Weird thing is the iOS mail clients do. 
Yahoo lets iOS devices connect via IMAP, which allows access to folders.I don't use the OS X Mail client because it dosen't show all my Yahoo mail folders. Weird thing is the iOS mail clients do.
Last I checked, they will only let desktops connect via POP, which doesn't give access to folders.
That's a big reason why some folks love gmail. Google lets everything connect via IMAP (and have access to folders).
You must only have one email account that you regularly check.
Try having five or six. The web browser doesn't scale, IMO.
I don't on Snow Leopard, Sparrow is pretty great for me. I'll be curious to see how different the Mail app in Lion is.
I use the built-in mail client, because I have several mail accounts from various services. Mail.app has some nice mail-routing rules that I use extensively to sort messages.
Yes, the tabs, quick reply, and some of the sorting features in Postbox are very nice. The app icon is well designed, as well
I guess I'd rather not pay $20 when the native app (Mail 5) works great.
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I use Mail built into OS X with my Gmail account and a couple of other POP accounts.
It does what I need and am happy with it. I'm not one who uses a bunch of advanced features.
I use Outlook 2007 at the office and still I use it at it's most basic functionality.
I am looking forward to the overhaul in Lion to see if I find any gems I might decide to use, but more for the nicer look.
I use Mail built into OS X with my Gmail account and a couple of other POP accounts.
It does what I need and am happy with it. I'm not one who uses a bunch of advanced features.
I use Outlook 2007 at the office and still I use it at it's most basic functionality.
I am looking forward to the overhaul in Lion to see if I find any gems I might decide to use, but more for the nicer look.
I've used the inbuilt client - Mail since moving to Mac just over two years ago. I was going to install Thunderbird since that is what I used at home on the PC but I thought I'd give the default apps a go rather than dismissing them out of hand.
Yes there are a few niggles but you'd get that in moving from any program you've got used to.
Looking at the new interface (I've not loaded any beta version of Lion so this may be wrong) and assuming it's going to be pretty similar to the version on the iPad then I'd like to see an option of marking emails as spam without them being rendered, Cmd+click or right-click. I've not seen anything about this and if you can't do something similar then it's a big step backwards IMO. I don't get huge amounts of spam but it would be nice to treat it with the disdain it deserves.
Yes there are a few niggles but you'd get that in moving from any program you've got used to.
Looking at the new interface (I've not loaded any beta version of Lion so this may be wrong) and assuming it's going to be pretty similar to the version on the iPad then I'd like to see an option of marking emails as spam without them being rendered, Cmd+click or right-click. I've not seen anything about this and if you can't do something similar then it's a big step backwards IMO. I don't get huge amounts of spam but it would be nice to treat it with the disdain it deserves.
I was a hardcore "mail client app" guy (first using Eudora in the 90's, then moving to Thunderbird) for years - I liked having the ability to go back and read mails without a net connection.
That all changed when Katrina hit, and the easiest way for me to have access and keep in touch with others was via webmail, since I didn't always know if I'd be on my computer or on someone else's, or a public machine.
I never planned on staying with webmail (prior to Katrina, I hated the idea of using it at all), but here I am almost 6 years later, still using gmail
I may try to reinstall Thunderbird and see if I can import the massive amounts of email from the server, if that's plausible to do...
That all changed when Katrina hit, and the easiest way for me to have access and keep in touch with others was via webmail, since I didn't always know if I'd be on my computer or on someone else's, or a public machine.
I never planned on staying with webmail (prior to Katrina, I hated the idea of using it at all), but here I am almost 6 years later, still using gmail
I may try to reinstall Thunderbird and see if I can import the massive amounts of email from the server, if that's plausible to do...
As mentioned earlier there is the activity window as well. I never quite understood why the pane and the window should not be exactly the same, but the pane shows far less detail and misses out most of the loading progress information. I do really like the pane vs the window though, in the same way I'm really looking forward to Lion Safari's downloads interface, cutting down on ugly little windows is all good!
Anyway ... I use Mail on SL and on iOS. It has been really nice since they added Exchange support, and offers full offsite and offline browsing of the whole database where Outlook on Windows always seems to fail. Mail.app is developing its fair share of bloat though.
Been using the in built mail client for about the last 4 years, but recently been trying out Thunderbird as an alternative
I dont like the way mail includes todo's and notes, they seem out of place to me in a mail client, ToDo's should stay in iCal and Notes should be separate app
Unsure what to do when Lion comes out, dont like the idea of an iOS style mail interface
I dont like the way mail includes todo's and notes, they seem out of place to me in a mail client, ToDo's should stay in iCal and Notes should be separate app
Unsure what to do when Lion comes out, dont like the idea of an iOS style mail interface