In addition, having created a Gmail account in Mail, all my emails on the server (thousands of them) were transferred to my Inbox. I want my Inbox to comprise current emails only. Do I need to change my settings in Gmail to transfer only those emails starting from a current date?

Would appreciate your help in making my transition as smooth as possible.

For several months, during one software release, Microsoft Word stopped working and trashed so many of my documents I had to swap to Neo Office temporarily.

I was part of Microsoft’s Market Research program back in 1985, as a member of the IT community and there I advised them to give priority to reliability rather than clever features. They obviously thought they knew better.

I would say that the time has arrived where Mac software is chosen over Microsoft purely as long term strategy for efficiency.

1) I use two SMTP servers, one at home, one at work. Thus I receive mails sent to both addresses. When I do an automatic reply, mail picks as SMTP server the one corresponding to the address where I received the mail. If I reply from work to a mail sent to my home address, Mail picks the wrong SMTP, and the mail sits in the outbox until i find out. Sometimes urgent mails sit in the outbox for days. Couldn’t you guys change the script in a way that Mail toggles among all available SMTP servers in my settings, until it finds the one that is currently active? If there is a way to set Mail to do so in the current version, then it is certainly not straightforward.
2) When i find out that mail si attempting to send a mail from the damn wrong SMTP server and try to change it to the right one, Mail keeps trying the wrong one for MINUTES and fails to make the change. I literally have to QUIT the application and re-start it in order to make it do the right thing. Extremely irritating.
3) Very simply, could you make the outbox icon flash in the main window if there are unsent mails in it?

I setup Mail on my parents iMac, and they really like it. It was easy to setup.

My goal is to manage multiple accounts. We have a number of accounts that need to be brought into a single application (personal e-mail address for friends and family, marketing e-mail address for businesses – can be changed in the event of spam). Both products solve this.

I like the comparison that “phassat” provided. Overall, for home use, I will go with the “native” Mail in OS X and continue to use Outlook (Windows) for work.

That said … I think I’m going back to Mail. I really miss the attachment preview and it does seem to be much quicker.

Why not?

Any way to add these?

Thanks.

Philip