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User Name Guido
Member Since 2001-08-27
Total number of Feedback Posts: 25
Total number of comments: 3
Last 10 Feedback Posts by Guido [ Search for All ]
Gorilla Universal Sql Client 0.2.5 (Mac OS X)
It's not worth to be a 0.0.1alpha release ... absolutely useless at the moment. There a much better free alternatives all around. [alert admin]
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Saturday, March 26 2005 @ 07:56 AM PST
PowerMail 5.1b1 (Mac OS X)
It lacks even the simplest usability features 
From version 3 on PowerMail lacks even the simplest usability features, like remembering the last selected message of a mailbox. There are other glitches and it is unstable. For me it's unusable as a mailer. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, September 29 2004 @ 10:33 PM PDT
Mailsmith 2.1.1 (Mac OS X)
I wrote a very positive review for Mailsmith and featurewise this review is absolutely correct.
I have now about 30.000 Mails in around 50 Mailboxes and Mailsmith is so f****** slow, that I don't want to use it anymore. I hate to say that, but it sucks on performance in every aspect.
Fetching mail is about 3 to 4 times slower than with Mail.app, switching between mailboxes and even filtering spam is also a very big issue.
I would love to use Mailsmith in future but I can't recommend the current version because of it sluggish behaviour in nearly every part of the program (fetching, filtering with a bit larger mailboxes (more than 1000 messages), switching between mailboxes and so on.
When you compare search performance to Mail.app or - even better - PowerMail you get tears in your eyes. Even fast search in one mailbox is horrible slow, no "queries" are available (like in Entourage or Mail.app) ...
Last, but not least: the mail database is about 30% larger than the same (!!) mails in Mail.app. BareBones says, this is because of many indexes they have. But if they have indexing, why is Mailsmith so sluggish? It's obvious that BareBones has currently a really bad database implementation and - if you see the price - this is an insolence.
So, Mailsmith slows me absolutely down with it's overall performance. It boosts my productivity a bit with very intelligent and unique features, but overall it slows me down by a view minutes per day. If you add this up it will come to three or four hours a month. And this way to much to tolerate.
No, I'm switching back to Mail.app, not sure whether I will stay there but's it is good enough and every good mail application can import the data.
Perhaps I come back to Mailsmith when the have version with a database that deserves the name. Again: nearly all my pain with Mailsmith comes from horrible database efficiency. [alert admin]
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Saturday, July 03 2004 @ 06:54 PM PDT
PowerMail 5.0 (Mac OS X)
I tried PowerMail several times over the last years, starting with v3, later v4 and now v5. The new search engine is really amazing for a Mailsmith user. PowerMail has a small memory footprint (about 1/3 of Mailsmith and 1/2 of Entourage with the same message database), but was unstable while importing my mails (via mbox files).
It lacks slso some essential user interface features like remembering the last selected message or the scrollbar position of message lists. This is really annoying.
I definitely stay with Mailsmith as it is much more reliable, the customer support is outstanding where support for PowerMail doesn't exist. The company's policy with updates is also very ... eh ... okay. I'm quiet.
Last thing: a real test is with this version not possible. I have about 40.000 Messages and want to try a mail client with every day use. Not with only a maximum of 200 messages or not sending/receiving mail. [alert admin]
Monday, May 24 2004 @ 01:11 PM PDT
FrontBase 4.1.4 (Mac OS X)
database around on Mac OS X! Definitely. Fast, small memory footprint even on large databases, handles hundreds of millions of rows without problems, fast and reliable. But that's not the best! The best is the outstanding support! Answers within minutes! Try to get this with Oracle or others ... [alert admin]
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Thursday, May 06 2004 @ 11:14 AM PDT
Menu Calendar 1.6.0 (Mac OS X)
There must be something wrong for you. Menu Calendar takes 3MB "rsize" on my system. No problem so far! [alert admin]
Thursday, April 01 2004 @ 04:02 AM PST
Mailsmith 2.1.1 (Mac OS X)
Product. The features are sophisticated and the support is absolutely outstanding! I like the grep search patterns, the reg ex search and replace, the scriptability and the great support for SpamSieve.
I don't need IMAP so nearly every feature I need is included. [alert admin]
Monday, March 01 2004 @ 12:19 PM PST
OmniWeb 5.0 beta 1 (Mac OS X)
They made it again - OW5 is a beta, it is unstable, but it is the best browser around. Better then Firebird, Safari and Camino. I loved v. 4.5 and I will love 5.0 final! [alert admin]
Tuesday, February 03 2004 @ 05:48 AM PST
OmniWeb 4.5 beta 1 (Mac OS X)
I have used OmniWeb since years and switched to Safari at the beginning of the year. But the Sneaky Peak releases where great and this one is as good as it can be with the Safari engine! Perfect [alert admin]
Thursday, June 05 2003 @ 11:07 PM PDT
OmniWeb 4.2 (Mac OS X)
is not as fast as Safari, has several bugs and a lot of features that are working in 4.2 are not working (banner blocking, popup blocking and so on) but the interface is Aqua, has more options, is more powerful and I love the shortcuts! [alert admin]
Thursday, April 10 2003 @ 07:47 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Guido [ Search for All ]
Great for JAVA. Not so great for PHP
Why do rate a Java IDE and Plugin-Management system for the lack of a PHP plugin? Seems a little odd ...
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Monday, April 04 2005 @ 02:28 AM PDT
The timeout for hide works fine here.
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Thursday, March 04 2004 @ 11:20 PM PST
Can't figure out how to import mail from Apple Mail
Just open the mbox-Package from Mail.app. In the folder is a file called "mbox", rename it to "xxx.mbox" (xxx is what you like) and drag it to a folder in the Entourage folder pane.
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Tuesday, August 05 2003 @ 12:52 PM PDT
