I think that email clients are important, and worth a little criticism. We all use email, and lots of us complain about it – especially professionals. It’s such a critical tool for our jobs, and it’s frustrating when it doesn’t work as well as we’d like, or when it distracts too much when we have [...]

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A recent Wall Street Journal article noted (pay link) the rise of alternatives to email. The article itself is balanced and mentions that new ways of communicating are likely to just add to how much time we spend with this stuff, not replace email and cure its problems. Whether that’s good or bad depends on [...]

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From Merlin Mann’s flickr stream, I noticed the book “Time Management for System Administrators” hiding under there, and went over to the O’Reilly site to take a look – there’s a full google preview of the book, and it has a chapter with some good advice about handling email. I’ll highlight the one piece of [...]

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From @spamsieve, I heard that BareBones’ Mailsmith has a new home: mailsmith.org. It’s freeware and will be under development. It’s great to see new life for one of the few alternative desktop mail clients for OS X, and while there’s no info on their plans for it yet, there’s some great discussion of possible features [...]

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