GyazMail - 1.5.9

I've just updated to the most recent version (1.5.8), and find that it continues to be a solid, reliable mail app. I've used GyazMail for about six months now, and continue to be quite pleased with it. It is much faster than Mail.app, and has a cleaner look to it. And it just doesn't crash.

While there isn't a forum or discussion list devoted to GyazMail (or at least none that I know of), you can submit bug reports and suggestions. Much to my surprise, the first time I did so the developer himself responded. It's nice to know there is someone out there who cares and listens - and helps even when it's "operator error".

I would strongly recommend anyone looking for a good, solid app consider Gyazmail. (And no, I don;t work for the company - I just like the product, and you can't beat the price.)

I've used PM for many, many years. It is a very good program, on average, which is why I chose it over all the others (Mail, Thunderbird, Eudora (now gone), Mailsmith, gnuMail, et al.). However, the program has an almost total lack of support, either in the form a web page on the ctm development site or in the form of responses from the developers. I finally gave up and sought a replacement.

My solution: GyazMail.

I have downloaded a tried essentially all the reputable email programs produced over the last decade. After updating my knowledge of these programs I finally chose to download GyazMail (GM) yesterday. I spent a number of hours exporting UNIX mboxes from PM to GM (which worked flawlessly), and now I have a clone of my PM system, but in GM.

GM worked the first time, with no problems, and has a very shallow learning curve. The most tedious and time-consuming procedure was the copying and importation of all my mboxes, because they could not be copied in a nested manner and therefore had to be copied/imported singly and then reconstructed. This was simple (I wrote a macro in QuicKeys to do so).

I have been happy (so far) with GM and happily paid the $18 to buy the program. The GUI is quite nice, is adjustable to a user's likes (and dislikes), and the set up was painless.

Email choices are idiotypic, but as a long-time experimenter in these types of programs and others, I recommend the PM to GM switch. It is unlikely you will be disappointed.

I've long been a user of Mailsmith despite its high registration fee because it had a number of features that, at the time several year ago, no one else had that I considered deal-breakers. Since Mailsmith has long gone without an update and is starting to feel a little long in the tooth, I've decided to start looking elsewhere.

Overall GyazMail is a very capable, easy to use email client. You can view attached images inside the messages pane; you can easily setup multiple email accounts (and, as a huge plus, simply set up your outgoing email server once, then simply re-select it for other accounts as you set them up!); you can select custom colors for up to 3 levels of quoted text to help sort out "who said what"; you can optionally suppress "remote" images (a nice security/privacy feature). GyazMail also has a "Remote" feature that lets you download only the message headers. From there, you decide which email messages to finish downloading, or to delete.

Other desirable features of GyazMail include the ability to suppress HTML formatting (a must due to the poor tastes some have in using it, as well as the misuse of it by scam artists). I also like the ability to specify which account I'm sending an email from, or replying from, which I sometimes I find this more desirable than using the "reply-to" field. In most cases, when you reply to an email, you don't have the option to change the "From" field from the email account/address that received the original.

Among a couple things that are missing from this email client that would be very welcome here would be the ability to re-wrap quoted text. All too often, when forwarding emails that have multiple levels of quotes, the text becomes nearly unreadable. One reason I stick with Mailsmith is for its ability to accurately rewrap quoted text so it becomes readable.

One other thing I don't like about GyazMail is that, when composing an email, the outgoing address fields (CC, BC, To) have all the recipients on one line. When sending to multiple recipients, it can be very difficult to be sure you have everyone, or don't have duplicates. There really needs to be a way to toggle the display so that you can see a full list if you wish.

While GyazMail is missing a few features that some "power users" will want, for those who can live without those but still want something more capable than Apple's Mail, this is certainly one of the better alternatives out there.

This really is a very nice email Client. After a long journey through Apples Mail and Thunderbird I decided over a year ago to stick with GyazMail and never had a Problem.
It`s fast, clean, simple and has everthing you need (except overbloated presets for ugly HTML emails).

Apple Mail crashes too much and has security Issues every now and then and Thunderbird seems to be a little much too "90ties" for me :-) .

Good Job!

Ever try to make text in an email Bold or colored? You can't do it! It does not support rich text format! I have requested this feature for months. I continue to be told it has low priority.

Also, if you want to select all the messages within a folder, to move them or delete them, you can't just press command-A unless you first select one of the messages in the folder. If you don't Gyzamail selects all the folders and accounts on the left.

My ratings are comparisons to Apple's free Mail application.