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Mailsmith - 2.1.5

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All Time:	(3.4)
Version 2.1.5:	(2.3)
Selected Version:	2.1.5
Release Date:	2005-03-09
License:	Shareware
Downloads (version 2.1.5):	43
Downloads (all versions):	2,043
Price:	$79.00

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Product Description:

Mailsmith is an Internet email client for the Macintosh which offers unparalleled filtering, searching, editing and scripting capabilities. Mailsmith breaks new ground in making powerful email-handling capabilities accessible to users of all levels.

What's new in this version:

There is a new switch in the "Advanced" tab for email accounts: "Allow Clear Text SMTP Authentication". This option controls whether Mailsmith is allowed to employ SMTP authentication methods that involve sending your password to the server unencrypted (as "clear text"). If it's turned on (which is the default for accounts created with previous versions of Mailsmith), then Mailsmith will continue to operate as before. If it's turned off (the default for newly created accounts), then Mailsmith will not attempt to use the "LOGIN" or "PLAIN" SMTP authentication methods, even if the server supports them, because doing so would allow the transmission of your SMTP password over an unsecured channel. Note that if "Require SSL for SMTP" is turned on, the connection to the server is by definition secure, so it's safe to use the clear-text SMTP authentication methods. Thus, if you turn on "Require SSL for SMTP", then "Allow Clear Text SMTP Authentication" is turned on as well.
Some SMTP servers advertise that they support CRAM-MD5 authentication, but then return an error (and an incorrect one at that) when Mailsmith attempts to authenticate using CRAM-MD5. To work around this, Mailsmith will ignore a CRAM-MD5 authentication failure if "Allow Clear Text SMTP Authentication" is turned on and the server advertises that it supports PLAIN or LOGIN authentication.
Mailsmith no longer explicitly flushes databases when notifying of newly arrived mail. (If "Leave Mail on Server" is turned off, messages are explicitly written to disk anyway.) This eliminates the burst of disk activity which occurred right before new-mail notification.
Fixed case in which some drawing code was inappropriately called from a background thread, which typically caused a crash.
Fixed a bug in which an individual mail database file larger than 1GB was subject to data corruption.
After successfully negotiating a secure connection using STARTTLS, Mailsmith will repeat the server handshake. This corrects a problem when working with servers that enforce the handshake-after-STARTTLS requirement, such as the MailHop relay service.
Mailsmith now correctly decodes AppleDouble enclosures sent by Apple Mail in which the resource fork and metadata are encoded as quoted-printable. (Why they did that is beyond me, since Base64 is perfectly serviceable, but there you have it.)

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2.2 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 2.1.5:
Overall Rating:	(2.3)	Features:	(3.4)	Support:	(2.8)
Ease of Use:	(2.0)	Quality / Stability:	(3.0)	Price:	(2.0)

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Too little, too late - Version: 2.2.2, 9/23/2009 10:35AM PST

Obee Juan

When I first switched to OS X several years ago, I quickly latched on to Mailsmith (despite its rather exorbitant price tag) because it simply had no comparable peer on the Mac. It was easily the most powerful email client available and remained so for some time. Unfortunately, it had gone years without updates, and lack of support for Intel Macs and IMAP service eventually rendered it a has-been. That meant for folks like me who now have iPhones and are using MobileMe or other IMAP services, Mailsmith is dead to us. I've since moved on to Postbox and while I had remained hopeful that Mailsmith would win me back, this release and its continuing lack of IMAP support has dashed those hopes.

Mailsmith 2.2.1 (292) USELESS new Addressing interface - Version: 2.2.1, 8/22/2009 07:58PM PST

Jean-Luc

New Addressing is POORLY implemented
Faulty Auto-completion
No Pop up selection of address list, it just default to the first address it founds !
No FIND button in the address window
WRONGLY implemented Address Picker
Impossible to drag and drop addresses
Impossible to multi address without creating group Which is not convenient !
Impossible to Command or Shift Click Selection (like in Apple Address Book)
DEVELLOPER is saying
There currently aren't any plans to change the way addressing is done !
WHICH IS SAD as this has been our preferred email software for years !
BUT IT IS NOW UNWORKABLE because of the addressing issue in our configuration at least, I guess it is ok for someone sending a few email to a few names, we have 450 emails addresses and with 20 groups and need often not to use the group to send to multi recipients !
It has become impossible to do with this new version, I had to go back to V 2.1.5 which does work perfectly.

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Mailsmith 2.2.1 (292) USELESS new Addressing interface

Mailsmith Is Now FREEWARE - Version: 2.2, 8/18/2009 11:36AM PST

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valx

They need to update the price info on the VersionTracker listing. As of Mailsmith 2.2, it's free.