02-23-2019, 12:41 AM
Hi there! I use the built in mail application on my Mojave Mac Mini, but my wife also checks her email on the same machine.
I don't like to have 2 separate email accounts on the built in mail application, since it increases the chance of sending mail from the wrong account and gets confusing. We also don't use separate user accounts on the machine.
So, I have been looking for a "2nd" separate email program to use, that can just be for her email account. I was using "postbox" for this purpose, but besides being kind of ugly to look at, it has been driving us crazy lately with certificate error messages it throws up on certain inbox emails, that require you to force quit the program to stop displaying.
Today I checked out three other email applications, and all of them had fundamental issues not found in OS X default mail application
-Airmail: Won't display more than the last 100 messages or so in the Impact inbox, even when set to download and show all. Support threads show this to be an longstanding and common issue.
-Spark: When using the "classic inbox" (since I don't want to use their smart inbox, can't sort inbox by anything but newest to oldest. No sort by sender name, attachment size, etc.
Also seems to show more of the inbox contents than airmail, but still not showing all of the inbox contents as pone big scrollable list, seems to load more as you scroll down to bottom
-Mailspring: Same two issues as Spark. For sorting the inbox, support forums show this as a requested but unimplemented feature.
So I am little baffled. Our email needs are very simple, just want a an email program that can display the entire inbox in 1 big scrollable list, and allow us to sort that inbox by a few other criteria. Built in mail can do those things, but 3 other email programs can't seem to (Postbox could do all this but the error messages are a showstopper).
One other recommended application I saw was "canary" but it costs $20 and I am hesitant to try it since returns can be hard on the OS X app store if things don't work out.
Thanks!
I don't like to have 2 separate email accounts on the built in mail application, since it increases the chance of sending mail from the wrong account and gets confusing. We also don't use separate user accounts on the machine.
So, I have been looking for a "2nd" separate email program to use, that can just be for her email account. I was using "postbox" for this purpose, but besides being kind of ugly to look at, it has been driving us crazy lately with certificate error messages it throws up on certain inbox emails, that require you to force quit the program to stop displaying.
Today I checked out three other email applications, and all of them had fundamental issues not found in OS X default mail application
-Airmail: Won't display more than the last 100 messages or so in the Impact inbox, even when set to download and show all. Support threads show this to be an longstanding and common issue.
-Spark: When using the "classic inbox" (since I don't want to use their smart inbox, can't sort inbox by anything but newest to oldest. No sort by sender name, attachment size, etc.
Also seems to show more of the inbox contents than airmail, but still not showing all of the inbox contents as pone big scrollable list, seems to load more as you scroll down to bottom
-Mailspring: Same two issues as Spark. For sorting the inbox, support forums show this as a requested but unimplemented feature.
So I am little baffled. Our email needs are very simple, just want a an email program that can display the entire inbox in 1 big scrollable list, and allow us to sort that inbox by a few other criteria. Built in mail can do those things, but 3 other email programs can't seem to (Postbox could do all this but the error messages are a showstopper).
One other recommended application I saw was "canary" but it costs $20 and I am hesitant to try it since returns can be hard on the OS X app store if things don't work out.
Thanks!