02-23-2019, 09:06 AM
Thanks everyone for all the prompt and thorough feedback, very much appreciated.
Looking through all of the suggestions above, none of them seem quite ideal, but I will keep pondering.
Separate user accounts, for me at least, would be trading one annoyance for another. My wife's main machine is her MacBook air, but when she does use the mac mini to check her mail (nice big monitor, comfy chair), I'd like to avoid making her have to log me out and log her in, or have fast user switching chewing up memory, etc.
Postbox is actually the program I've been using for her mail on my machine, but it has a specific behavior with assorted emails that drives us nuts. If you select an email in the inbox that it claims has a certificate issue (which no other mail program ever complains about), it throws up an error message box, and when you click "OK", it just throws the box up again, over and over. The only thing you can do is force quit the program and be careful to not click that email.
Webmail is an interesting suggestion, although the interface for our imap account (ions, formerly 1and1) is not as nice to work with as a real email program (one that does what we want anyway).
This thread reminded me I had a license for Outlook 2011 that I was not using, so I installed that a few minuets ago and gave it a try. Did not go well, very cluttered interface, very sluggish operation even on a nice new 2018 mac mini.
I was really hoping airmail, mailspring, or spark would do the trick but they all had issues as mentioned in the original post.
I have not tried canary yet, if I knew for sure it showed the whole inbox as a scrollable list, and allowed sorting by name/attachment size/oldest/newest, I would be willing to spend the $20 on it. Anyone here use that particular program by any chance?
Looking through all of the suggestions above, none of them seem quite ideal, but I will keep pondering.
Separate user accounts, for me at least, would be trading one annoyance for another. My wife's main machine is her MacBook air, but when she does use the mac mini to check her mail (nice big monitor, comfy chair), I'd like to avoid making her have to log me out and log her in, or have fast user switching chewing up memory, etc.
Postbox is actually the program I've been using for her mail on my machine, but it has a specific behavior with assorted emails that drives us nuts. If you select an email in the inbox that it claims has a certificate issue (which no other mail program ever complains about), it throws up an error message box, and when you click "OK", it just throws the box up again, over and over. The only thing you can do is force quit the program and be careful to not click that email.
Webmail is an interesting suggestion, although the interface for our imap account (ions, formerly 1and1) is not as nice to work with as a real email program (one that does what we want anyway).
This thread reminded me I had a license for Outlook 2011 that I was not using, so I installed that a few minuets ago and gave it a try. Did not go well, very cluttered interface, very sluggish operation even on a nice new 2018 mac mini.
I was really hoping airmail, mailspring, or spark would do the trick but they all had issues as mentioned in the original post.
I have not tried canary yet, if I knew for sure it showed the whole inbox as a scrollable list, and allowed sorting by name/attachment size/oldest/newest, I would be willing to spend the $20 on it. Anyone here use that particular program by any chance?