Five new things your Mac can do with Lion

[Paul F.]

Hey! Don't be diss'in Eudora!
It was a FINE email client in its day... it was a LONG time before anything caught up to it.

Vickrock;
I suggest looking at MailForge.. I don't know what their current state of development is, but their goal for MailForge was to duplicate the interface of Eudora, while improving things "under the hood".


I'm still ever-so-slowly getting users moved from Eudora to Mail.
I've been waiting because our email provider at work has been promising a new and improved Outlook web-mail for 3 years... and I wanted to wait for that to happen and just migrate people to that. But I can't wait any more!

[vicrock]

I have looked at Mail Forge in the past and was unimpressed - ditto Postbox.

I'm not sure why I am so reluctant to change - other than I find Eudora fast and familiar - I have a LOT of archived e-mail and can search through and find most anything VERY easily. It is very stable, doesn't crash and I've just not found anything that does things as cleanly.

I'm certainly open to suggestions!

[silvarios]

deckeda wrote:
That first thing mentioned-the auto correction. Just today I looked for a way to turn it off on my iPad and failed. Been bugging me for quite some time. It had better be defeatable in Lion. I'd much rather see a red underline and go back and fix it than have it correct on the fly and still be wrong in a different way and harder to fix.

Doesn't Snow Leopard already have auto correct? It is not generally enabled by default.

[MacMission]

My wife sticks with Eudora because she can hold the option key down on "send" to schedule email. Until another email program can perform this function as easily she's never updating.

[cowboyxjon]

I'm actually not very excited about some of the iOS features. I don't want my desktop to look like an iOS desktop and I want to keep the regular system menubar. Hopefully there will be an option to disable some of the iOS stuff.

[deckeda]

silvarios wrote:
[quote=deckeda]
That first thing mentioned-the auto correction. Just today I looked for a way to turn it off on my iPad and failed. Been bugging me for quite some time. It had better be defeatable in Lion. I'd much rather see a red underline and go back and fix it than have it correct on the fly and still be wrong in a different way and harder to fix.

Doesn't Snow Leopard already have auto correct? It is not generally enabled by default.
The only thing I've seen is the auto spell check, and can only recall seeing it available on an app-by-app basis via a right-click setting, not a global setting.

[silvarios]

deckeda wrote: The only thing I've seen is the auto spell check, and can only recall seeing it available on an app-by-app basis via a right-click setting, not a global setting.

There is auto correct as well, but it is available on a per text field per app basis. Generally, it is disabled by default, but I believe TextEdit has it enabled by default.