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Re: alternative mail clients for Mac

From Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: alternative mail clients for Mac
Date 2013-09-04 21:42 +0000
Organization Miskatonic U
Message-ID <slrnl2faa2.1td.g.kreme@mbp55.local> (permalink)
References (13 earlier) <020920131745400917%nospam@nospam.invalid> <barmar-CCFD09.10413003092013@news.eternal-september.org> <030920131046024178%nospam@nospam.invalid> <barmar-CBB488.12374903092013@news.eternal-september.org> <4bioyhc0jz.fsf@ethel.the.log>

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In message <4bioyhc0jz.fsf@ethel.the.log> 
  Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

>> In article <030920131046024178%nospam@nospam.invalid>,
>>  nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>> > In article <barmar-CCFD09.10413003092013@news.eternal-september.org>,
>> > Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> > 
>> > > > > I suspect it's a deliberate design choice by Apple not to do filtering 
>> > > > > of messages that aren't in the Inbox.
>> > > > 
>> > > > that doesn't change anything. it still means a key feature of postfix
>> > > > and other similar software are voided.
>> > > 
>> > > You keep saying that, as if Apple were somehow UNDOING what postfix 
>> > > does. Postfix puts the mail in a folder, Apple doesn't void it.
>> > 
>> > it makes the feature useless. i call that voided.
>> > 
>> > > What I think you mean are that Mail rules are not as useful when 
>> > > combined with Postfix filtering.
>> > 
>> > that's what i said.
>> > 
>> > > You could just do all your filtering in Mail.
>> > 
>> > i could, but that means throwing out what's already been done. it also
>> > requires apple mail to always be running.
>> 
>> Why? As soon as you start it up, it will download the new mail and sort 
>> them into their folders.

> Consider the following situation:

> I read email two places (my desktop with mail filters set up to do
> what I want) and my iPhone.

> If my computer is off, then I'm seeing new mail come in on my iPhone
> which does not get filtered by the filtering rules on my desktop.

> And in fact, I'm likely to read it on my iphone while reading other
> mail, so it is no longer new mail when my computer comes back on, thus
> the filtering doesn't even get applied then.

> I actually (like many people) have a more complicated situation.  I
> read email in four places:  my work computer, my home computer, my
> iPhone and my iPad.    What I do is just leave my work computer on all
> the time, because the filtering I do is important for me.

And what *I* do is filter on the server, so it doesn't matter what
computer I am using and my filters do not depend on a single machine
being connected to the Internet.

My iPad, iPhone, MacBook, iMac, Mini, and any random computer I decide
to use webmail from all see the exact same mailstore, filtered.

-- 
Here are people who know that there is no steel, only the idea of steel.
Footnote: But they still use forks, or, at least, the idea of forks.
There may, as the philosopher says, be no spoon, although this begs the
question of why there is the idea of soup.

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alternative mail clients for Mac bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2013-08-23 16:42 -0700
  Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-08-23 16:51 -0700
    Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-08-24 15:13 +0000
  Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2013-08-23 16:53 -0700
    Re: alternative mail clients for Mac billy@MIX.COM - 2013-08-24 15:25 +0000
      Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-08-25 02:32 +0000
        Re: alternative mail clients for Mac billy@MIX.COM - 2013-09-01 01:12 +0000
          Re: alternative mail clients for Mac billy@MIX.COM - 2013-09-07 23:15 +0000
      Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2013-08-24 23:12 -0700
  Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-08-23 18:32 -0700
  Re: alternative mail clients for Mac howdy@doody.com - 2013-08-24 07:01 -0500
    Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-02 12:41 -0400
  Re: alternative mail clients for Mac William Munny <will@bigwhisky.net> - 2013-08-24 17:24 -0400
  Re: alternative mail clients for Mac jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-09-01 14:28 +1200
    Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-08-31 23:03 -0400
      Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2013-08-31 20:29 -0700
      Re: alternative mail clients for Mac jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-09-01 15:33 +1200
        Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-01 00:23 -0400
          Re: alternative mail clients for Mac JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-09-01 00:38 -0400
            Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-01 00:54 -0400
          Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-08-31 21:55 -0700
            Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-09-02 01:15 +0000
              Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-01 22:46 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-09-01 22:22 -0700
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-02 08:22 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-09-02 08:56 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-02 10:02 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-09-02 14:28 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-09-02 17:02 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-02 17:45 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-09-03 10:41 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-03 10:46 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-09-03 12:37 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2013-09-03 09:49 -0700
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-09-03 10:04 -0700
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Tom Stiller <tom_stiller@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-03 13:47 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-09-03 15:28 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2013-09-03 12:33 -0700
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-09-03 17:48 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2013-09-03 14:52 -0700
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-04 04:28 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-09-03 15:25 -0700
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-03 20:49 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-09-03 17:59 -0700
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-09-03 19:17 -0700
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac billy@MIX.COM - 2013-09-04 02:50 +0000
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2013-09-04 03:20 +0000
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-09-03 20:57 -0700
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac billy@MIX.COM - 2013-09-04 15:38 +0000
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-09-04 00:02 -0700
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-04 04:28 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-04 17:00 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-09-04 21:48 +0000
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-04 04:28 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-09-04 09:39 -0700
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-09-04 22:00 +0000
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-05 07:08 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-05 07:08 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-09-04 21:42 +0000
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2013-09-04 16:14 -0700
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-03 13:18 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-09-03 15:31 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-04 04:28 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-09-05 01:42 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-05 07:08 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-09-06 21:10 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-09-02 22:45 +0000
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-09-02 09:18 -0700
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-02 17:33 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-02 18:39 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-02 20:12 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-02 20:24 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac mcarels@xs4all.nl (Maarten Carels) - 2013-09-03 10:12 +0200
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-03 16:40 -0400
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-09-03 15:21 -0700
                Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-03 20:42 -0400
              Re: alternative mail clients for Mac billy@MIX.COM - 2013-09-02 04:39 +0000
      Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-02 12:45 -0400
  Re: alternative mail clients for Mac "Red Ryder" <r.Ryder@aol.com> - 2013-09-14 10:55 -0400
    Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-09-14 10:12 -0700
      Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-14 13:45 -0400
        Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-09-14 12:56 -0700
          Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-09-14 17:21 -0400
            Re: alternative mail clients for Mac "Red Ryder" <rRyder@brightnet.net> - 2013-09-14 19:08 -0400
      Re: alternative mail clients for Mac "Red Ryder" <rRyder@aol.com> - 2013-09-14 16:17 -0400
        Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-09-14 13:45 -0700
          Re: alternative mail clients for Mac "Red Ryder" <rRyder@brightnet.net> - 2013-09-14 19:07 -0400
          Re: alternative mail clients for Mac Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-09-15 02:26 +0000

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