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Apple's Mail: a good alternative?

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stephan.works

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Apr 29, 2008
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Hi!

Has anyone tried this alternative to Mail?

www.personamail.info

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I don't really like Mail... Gmail has great features but I really much prefer a native app... and Sparrow is -surprisingly, given the premises- quite painful to use.

Anyone knows where to download this app?

Thanks!
 
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I use Sparrow. Check it out in the app store :D
 
Sparrow is great and I ditched apple mail a while ago as a result. Just wish theyd tweak a few elements, like enabling a two finger tap to delete instead of having to always hit the trash or keyboard delete button.

It's good though. ;)

Stu
 
Personally I don't really like Sparrow. It looks way better than Gmail but, at the end of the day, I'm not happy using it.

Moreover the client I was mentioning (Persona) has some cool visualization to browse attachments and to see conversations.
Check towards the end of the demo-video or see screenshot below.

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That's why I was wondering if it is already available...
 
I would definitely give it a try.
Would be nice if the devs offered a 2 week trial period to test it out.
 
After reading in a couple of blogs it seems that Persona is not yet available... but I am still so curious!!!! ;)
 
Persona seems like yet another program that tries to cram social media like Facebook into it. In fact it seems to take the Facebook concept and apply it to email. I've yet to see social media integration work in a good way in any application.

In most cases you would not have pictures of people, you would probably get tons of visual problems because it won't handle all that quoted crap from Outlook, most likely won't do threaded mail with different languages (for example in Finnish, Outlook uses VS:VS:VS instead of Re:Re:Re to indicate replies and those change the subject) and I wonder how well it will handle previewing for example Word or Powerpoint documents.

Don't take me wrong, it's good that people try new things. I just don't see it working well beyond the "family and friends" type emailing.

PS. Google has a few previews of their upcoming Gmail themes (can be tried by changing theme). I quite like them, they've clean and rather Mac like. I use Fluid to turn Gmail into its own app and find it works very well. Not a fan of Sparrow either, just too many things that don't work like I would like them to.
 
always nice to see different ideas but i use mail.app at work and then gmail at other times and i cant see why and when i would this one.

i must say though that the attachment view is pretty smart. will probably get stolen and used elsewhere
 
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