J.H. Chabran

There are mutt guys, there are Outlook guys and finally Gmail guys. That’s all the major mails clients I can think as cult subject. But today I discovered something else, not really new : Mail.app, at least to you. I was so glued to GMail that I never thought of firing it up, even just to take a look at its features, to feel how Apple applied it’s designs principles to email workflow.

This all came up while loosing my time with all those GMail captchas which are everywhere in the password recovery process. I thought about using something else instead of raging about GMail cumbersomeness. I fired up Mail.app, configured my account with IMAP and started using it.

First action : activate threads to tame all those emails correctly !
Then, I created some Smart Mailboxes, took a look to hotkeys and started to answer to those shiny emails.

It pretty looks like GMail, except it lacks a way to distinguish visually in which mailboxes threads are, like labels color used to. But it’s blazing fast, less clunky and look nicer. Mutt is clearly the fastest, but out of my needs. Spending months configuring it is something I gave up with years ago, mostly when I decided to spend my time using software, not just studying it in every angle possible.

But it’s still day one, let’s see if it’s just a “I’m hunger of new stuff” or if I’m leaving Google’s church for real.