And in Thunderbird and Mail, if you find yourself doing the same search frequently, you can save the search parameters and create what Mail calls a smart mailbox, something that isn’t possible in GyazMail. It’s easy to find messages in GyazMail, but it’s just as easy, if not easier, in Thunderbird and Mail. The GyazMail approach works okay, but it is idiosyncratic and has no special advantages. Mail and other programs also distinguish between incoming and sent messages for different accounts, but less obtrusively and less confusingly. Instead, a local account is an organizational pseudo-account, a kind of super-folder into which you can filter or move messages that arrive at your real mail accounts. It corresponds to nothing outside the program, doesn’t reference any external servers, and does not require any configuration. A local account isn’t really an account at all. GyazMail supports POP accounts and IMAP accounts, but it stands alone in having something it calls local accounts. The program also offers a boon to power users who prefer the keyboard to the mouse: You can create your own keyboard shortcuts for performing most actions.Īh, but good looks aren’t everything. GyazMail has excellent tools for finding and especially for filtering messages. GyazMail supports Growl, a technology for providing notifications when mail arrives, even if you are in another program. Unlike Thunderbird, GyazMail reads e-mail addresses from and saves new addresses to the Mac OS X Address Book, which is good news and indicative of the program’s Mac OS X character. Thunderbird 2 ( ) and online options such as ![]() In the meantime, Mail has gotten much better, and so have other free alternatives, such as Unfortunately, though, not much else about GyazMail has changed either. Now at version 1.5.7, GyazMail’s price hasn’t changed in three years (it’s still $18), which is very good indeed. ![]() GyazMail 1.2 ( ) for Macworld in 2005, I compared it favorably to Apple’s
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