Link: Detailed Usability Review of Thunderbird

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I think the less an email application does the better — feature-rich ones only encourage users to move in. I’d rather spend my time somewhere else. from nerdgap.com

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I might be the only person who ever thought to complain that the key shortcut for “Send this message” is different across mail clients – I guess most people only use one. But even before I started this project I was using multiple clients at once, to separate “work” email from “home” email in a [...]

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Link: 52tiger.net on new MobileMe webmail client A nice detailed description of the updates to MobileMe’s webmail client from Dave Caolo at his new blog, [52tiger](http://52tiger.net/). I haven’t used MobileMe mail for several years, mostly because the couple hundred dollars I spent on .Mac without ever really getting much use out of it, before finally [...]

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How well does GMail let me create filters to handle heavy traffic lists? GMail is not perfect, but it’s got the workflow down right. When I want to add a filter, I am probably looking at a message that I want the filter to match. So GMail’s “Filter messages like this” command is a great [...]

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How well does Thunderbird 3 let me create filters to handle heavy traffic lists? There’s not much support for using a message to build a filter from, which I think is the most natural workflow. The menu item “Tools > Message Filters…” opens a dialog box that could use some simplification. For example, the buttons [...]

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One thing that can make a big difference in a client is how well it helps you cope with heavy-traffic lists. Sometimes we need to stay on top of a firehose, and a client that helps filter out the noise and lets you keep track of what’s going on in sometimes very long threads is [...]

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I had an idea the other day that I shared on Twitter: @mikemccracken: It would be cool if there was a way for well-used & loved GUI software to gracefully show its age, like a good leather wallet… I still like this idea, and I loved the example that Bryan Knight replied with – the [...]

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I ran across this video in my bookmarks – this looks like the result of Yahoo acquiring Xoopit. It looks like they’ve got a platform for building “applications” that users can add into their webmail client. (Here’s the developer info ) It’s a little like Facebook’s games and other apps, and I’d be surprised if [...]

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Occasionally, I’m going to take a break from nit-picking existing mail clients to point to some interesting new ideas for email. It’ll be focused on ideas you can use soon, that work with existing email standards – I’m going to hold off on talking about Google Wave until I understand what it’s really for. Today, [...]

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