exegete77 wrote:Finally this past week I have broken the habit. Now InfoClick Is my first choice for searching... Duh
. It only took two months of “Oh, wait, I could have used InfoClick.” But I am free! I have made the transition to InfoClick (completely!!)
How I envy you. I wish I could use InfoClick, but when I moved to OS-X, for coding reasons with Chinese, Mail didn't cut the mustard and I found GyazMail, which I've used ever since. Like you, GyazMail is a habit for me ... I'm comfortable with the way it does things, and there are some things that it does that Mail can't. So, with each new version of Mail released by Apple, I've tried it out, but it's only taken a couple of weeks before I've moved back to GyazMail. There are two things about GyazMail that really do it for me:
1) The "Rules" and "Filters" system and the fact that you can go directly to the mail-box on the server. I guess with the Rules, it's just that I feel more at home with the interface; the Filters work on the server, allowing you to set up filters so that, for instance, you can define categories of spam mail that will be deleted on the server without ever being downloaded.
2) GyazMail allows me to access my Gmail account as POP-3 rather than IMAP. This is important to me. I only have a Gmail account for historical reasons going back about 10 years, when that was the only way I could send emails from here in China to mailboxes abroad, without them being returned by the recipient server simply because of originating from spam and virus-ridden system here. I don't really use it now, but for many years my students used that address as then, when they sent me work, there would always be a copy on the Gmail server. So, if I use Mail, and I include the Gmail account — which some people still send mails to — it will only connect as IMAP, so it then spends long hours downloading and cluttering up my hard drive with several thousand mails that I don't need to access; or else, I don't set up Mail to log into Gmail and can't get at any that arrive there without using a browser. With GyazMail, any new mail arriving in the Gmail account is simply downloaded like those on my other POP-3 accounts, and I only have to deal with them.
So, no Mail.app for me, no InfoClick ... until Martin and Co. add GyazMail to the email applications it can index ... please, please, please!
Mark
, I finally have realized why. My habit has always been to search using the Mail search feature. It had become so ingrained as a habit that when I got InfoClick, I unconsciously used Mail to search because of the habit. Later I would think: why didn’t I use InfoClick? I would go back and try it again, and found it easier. But the habit was hard to break.
