Balzac - 1.0b29

No IMAP, not worth a look. Sorry.

I was excited to give this app a shot, but I cannot use POP for the accounts that I check. I will continue to follow this application's development though, given that I too found its feature set very compelling...

I keep waiting for the perfect email client, and I have tried ALL of them. An hour with Balzac shows it to be easy to use and powerful under the hood as well, which is how a Mac app ought to be. Nice slick design (though the icon looks like a pizza with water spilled on it). Maybe THIS will be the one...

I have not encountered any crashing or the bugs listed below yet.

Wonder if the balzacmbox file format is the same as a regular mbox?

Balzac has a lovely interface and a filter driven approach to mail. I could really warm to this. But right now I can't get it to work.

For example ... mail that arrives 'today' should be caught by the filter and found in the 'today' view. And this is true for SOME mail. But other mail escapes the filter and appears only in the 'People' view... or somewhere else. So far, I can't figure out why this is happening. (The only way I found one piece of important mail was by looking in my other client.) I'm suppopsing that the view/filter is doing its job, but that it is imposing an 'order' that really isn't helpful.

I've also found that once I have double-clicked on a message to view its full contents, there is no easy way to return to the list view of all messages. I must click on 'replace view' in the search section and go through another dialog box that seems to be warning me NOT to do this unless I am absloutely sure. It's pretty counter-intuitive and clumsy.

On the plus side, the alternate displays of 'default,' 'detailed,' and 'untrusted' mail are all pretty handy. I really liked this approach to message display. Changing from one format to another is quite easy.

I had no trouble configuring my Yahoo account as someone else noted earlier.

All in all, I'd probably give it a try if it felt more 'reliable.'

Looks absolutely marvellous, but, unfortunately, doesn't work. I mean, at all. Mail doesn't send, and it doesn't pick up mail from the pop server (and yes, I have configured it all correctly). Occasionally, clicking on the menu items does nothing. The interface is lovely, but it really needs to work!