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I personally prefer Postbox: http://www.postbox-inc.com/

But I tried Sparrow when it was in beta a while ago. Perhaps I should give it a shot agian.

Agreed. I saw Sparrow highly touted by friends on Twitter, but I couldn't wrap my head around it. But maybe because it reminded me of Twitter for Mac, which I can't wrap my head around either.

The new Postbox release is pretty solid and does almost everything I want.

It just saddens me that it's basically the future now and we still can't seem to get email clients that don't suck. Some are better than others, sure, but they all seem to suck in some fundamental way. FWIW, in Postbox it seems to be speed.

>they all seem to suck in some fundamental way. FWIW, in Postbox it seems to be speed.

That's because Postbox is based on Thunderbird, which is not a path to creating a fast, lightweight mail app.

I can only think of a handful of desktop mail engines for the Mac (Mail.app, Thunderbird + children, Entourage, Sparrow). If mail clients suck, it's because more people need to write one.

Outlook for Mac 2011 came out. It has some major missing features (won't run rules on the Exchange server, no auto-archive), but the calendar works and it's a serviceable mail reader. Better than Entourage by far, I would say.

I blame Qualcomm.

Eudora was amazing.

So did I. Really liked it until banner ads start to appear in the most visually disruptive place in the entire interface. If those have been stripped from the paid version, I'd go back.

The ads really were in a terrible place for the email experience. I almost stopped using it as well until I found a setting in the preferences that just said "Disable Ads" and that was that.

Because of that, I assume that they've removed the Ads from the paid version.

Correct, ads are not present in the paid version. There is not even a checkbox to turn them on.

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