Ever met an email client you liked? Most of us have tried several, longing for a detail-oriented client that didn’t seem to exist. Luckily, with the release of Bare Bones Software’s Mailsmith 1.0 and the 1.0.1 update, discriminating Mac users may have met their perfect match.
Mailsmith incorporates the essential capabihties of Bare Bones’ industry-standard text-cruncher BBEdit, which fixes problems with text quickly and efficiently. If you regularly deal with folks who have all sorts of email configurations, you’ll love Bare Bones’ BBEdit capabilities. Your days of cleaning up hard returns in your email are over. It even supports BBEdit plug-ins.
Mailsmith’s search capabilities are great. Its “fuzzy” and grep searches allow you to search for a match with as httle as 20 percent accuracy. Even those of us with bad memories can look for an approximate match and still often hit pay dirt. Even better, Mailsmith stores email in an object-oriented database. Consequently, you can perform detailed searches through Boolean criteria AND, OR, and XOR (exclusive OR) .
Mailsmith even integrates scripting technologies through Open Scripting Architecture, which means that it is compatible with AppleScript and UserLand Software’s Frontier. Scripting fanatics, you know what to do. Moreover, Mailsmith is a problem solver. It takes multithreading — “cooperative tasking” in Bare Bones speak — to a new level with features specific to an email client. You can send, sort, and filter email while you compose or edit another message. Two email accounts can be active at the same time; the mail connection window shows you the status of both accounts simultaneously.
Mailsmith also features filtering capabilities, which file your messages where you want based on multiple criteria. You can autodump ah the get-rich-quick spam that clogs your mailbox, kill time assigning various sounds to your regular email buddies, or design filters to automaticahy unsubscribe you from mailing lists, forward email to another recipient, and print hard copies.
And that’s not all: Mailsmith possesses additional minutiae you’ll appreciate. In its three-paned window (similar to Microsoft’s Outlook Express), you can scroll through your inbox and read email text without opening each item. It’s also easier to handle multiple attachments, whereas in chents such as Emailer you have to start over with each attachment.
We have one gripe: Mailsmith is interface challenged. However, it wouldn’t be Bare Bones if it were pretty. Attractive or not, it’s a keeper.
Ladd, Donna. (September 1998). Mailsmith 1.0.1. MacAddict. (pg. 47).
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Install_Mailsmith_1.0.sit
Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
SheepShaver
