It’s that loading Classic takes so long, else I’d probably move away from Mail.app to the old Outlook Express. I’m quite confident when I say that for me, Outlook Express:Mac 5.0 is the easiest mail client I have ever used, on any platform. Only the needed features are presented in the main window, and the toolbar is very thin, it gets out of the way and you’re never bothered by it. Other than offering a greatly simplified method of managing large quantities of emails, the interface itself of Outlook Express is very functional. And to make matters worse, you cannot create a new directory in this dialog (you will need to go to the main window for that). In Mail.app, you have to open the preferences panel, select the rules tab, click add rule, enter the information needed (and if you happened to have a message highlighted that does not come from the list in question, you’ll have to copy/paste the info, as Mail.app only guesses the information from the highlighted email), and select directory. That dialog obviously also allows you to create a new directory if you haven’t done so already.Ĭompare this to the archaic way of doing this in Mail.app. Right click email, set list rule, select destination directory, and done. And while Outlook Express on OS9 doesn’t automagically do it for you, it does have the easiest routine of setting up mailing list rules. There is no way to do this easily you’ll have to do it all manually. Setting those rules and directories up on new machines or installs is a pain in the ass. To manage them all, I have rules and filters which direct list emails into directories a directory for each list I’m subscribed to. I’m subscribed to all sorts of mailinglists to keep track of the news surrounding major projects, and as such, I get a lot of email every day. I have high standards when it comes to email applications (I wonder how on earth I manage to use Mail.app as my primary email client), as I have an intensive way of controlling email. I tried a few, but the best mail client I could find was Outlook Express:Mac. My second problem was finding a decent email client. It does its job well, albeit first startup is painfully slow. To cut a long story short, I settled on a build of Mozilla 1.3.1 (the newest I could find, dating 21-6-2003). It is a good browser, but something about the way it renders pages doesn’t appeal to me. While much, much better, iCab also did not fit my needs. The interface is a mess, and therefore it’s a pain to use. I did not like IE:Mac at all, since it sucked just as much on OS9 as it does on OSX. First thing I did, therefore, was to see if there was a OS9 build of Firefox– and was unhappy to see there is none (if you know more than I and Google do, please let me know). Since I had zero experience with OS9 other than the Classic environment in OSX, I had to start from square one when it came to available software. Then again, we’re talking unsupported software here, so it ain’t that big of a deal. And since both of these updates do not appear in the Update tool, you have to find and install them manually. You first have to update to 9.1.x, and then to 9.2.x. Installing OS9 was a breeze, although updating OS9 from 9.0 to 9.2.2 (the latest version) was a bit of pain. Both laughing, I opted for the mouse that works, pulled out my wallet, payed, drove home, and set the machine up. This tone on his end was perfectly worded when he asked, “do you want an Apple mouse, or a mouse that works?”. He happened to be an OSNews reader, so he knew who I was, so he understood why I bought the machine it was just clear from his tone that I should not expect all that much from the experience. The salesman at my local Apple-only retailer was quite cynical about the whole machine and its operating system. Note: Read more on the meta blog about the new Sunday eve column! However, I was in for a rather pleasant surprise. I did not expect I’d use the machine much. I wanted to experience first hand what OS9 was like. It came with a copy of MacOS 9– and that was what I bought it for. It was a 333Mhz G3 iMac with 96MB of RAM. A few weeks ago, I did something crazy and shelled out 50 Euros for a G3 iMac.
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