GyazMail for Mac User Reviews
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"SUBARASHII"
Version: GyazMail 0.9.9.9.3
Summary
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As a Eudora using American who lives in Japan (there are a lot of us, you'd be surprised!) I didn't want to stay 2 years behind for Eudora's Japanese version to catch up. So I have been receiving mail in Eudora and sending it with mail. Now I've kicked Mail out of my life, and use this great tool. The creator, who is Japanese, has done a huge service to Eudora-using Americans who live in Japan, and to everyone else! I do hope the set keyboard shortcut function will work soon (and that it will use the command key as an option), since this is a requirement for me (got to set my apps up the way I need them to work). -
"One star for for mixing up shareware/freeware?"
Version: GyazMail 0.9.9.9.3
Summary
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Come on. It's been made very clear what the probable price of this app will be. I have a 7-year old who insists on correcting everything I say, but then maybe your're only 6? This is a great piece of work. The author is extremely responsive, and GyazMail is a wonderful alternative to Mail.app. I too am hoping for some Mail.app like junk filtering, but the speed difference between the two apps means I won't be returning to Mail on that account. Five stars. -
"Getting better all the time..."
Version: GyazMail 0.9.9.9.2
Summary
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I have used this since November 2002 and just love it. I do not miss HTML, cause it just requires a mouse click to open it in a browser...big deal.
I do wish I could view attachments only as an icon. It previews the first page of .pdf, .gif. jpg files which can be a pain if you are attaching many files.
A filter by "content" would also be nice.
Would like the "word/line wrap" setting to work in the email editor. Currently it only formats the sent e-mail, I believe. -
"Great email client. But..."
Version: GyazMail 0.9.9.9.2
Summary
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I love it. It replaced Eudora since quite a while. Importing all my messages (over 10 000) was painless. Filtering is great. Customisation of the connections of your email accounts is fantastic, whatever port you'll use, whatever particular setting you'll need, Gyazmail will handle it like a charm. Message threading is fantastically helpfull to keep track of the relations between messages. Color customisation is great to help you have the environnement you prefer. Documentation is very detailed and illustrated. Last but not least, it's (still) free and updated VERY FREQUENTLY.
But :
- It does not recognize HTML message and thus open them in the browser, VERY ODD...
- Searching a message when you have like me over 10000 of them is painfully long... Between 30 seconds and a minute. Way too long.
- Searching again.. No grep capabilities like in BBedit, that would make it a killer app.
- Instead of having one Trash for all accounts, you have one Trash per email account. It's like having on you OS one Trash per application. You just don't understand why... Simplicity my friend...
- Filtering could be better if you could filter by content : say you'd like to get rid of the spam of one company and filter their messages using their signature (considering they change the sender address everytime)... Well, you can't, you have to manually trash each and every spam you receive.
- Address Book sucks, why depend on it ? (but it's great if you like it)
- Lacks an automated update checking system. Considering the frequency of the updates, that would allow everyone to work with the latest version.
Whatever I could say, it's still the best free offer you can get (with GNUMail.app -> http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14141), it's stable, handles multiple connexion, is reasonabily fast and can be compared to Eudora with no shame.
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"Very Hopeful"
Version: GyazMail 0.9.9.9.2
Summary
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I've been following this client for quite some time. There are a lot of positives and a couple of negatives.
Positives:
THREADING! - this is becoming more and more important. Being able to visually see who is replying to whom (hope the grammar is correct here) is extremely nice if you subscribe to a lot of mail lists.
Integration with system services - nicely integrates with OSX. More 'add-ons' with mail.app (PGP etc). I've seen that there are plans for gpg integration so that is good.
Interface is nice and clean. Some niggles which I'll cover under negatives.
Stability seems good
Keyboard customization. Very nice
Negatives:
File system - seems to store messages as individual files a la claris e-mailer. Not sure what the system impacts are with extremely large numbers of e-mail but I've noticed much more HD thrashing that with apps like eudora or mail.app that store messages in unix mail box files. The file names are cryptic as well so it makes it hard to do a 'raw search' for a particular message'.
Interface. The folder list seems kind of odd to navigate. I know everyone has their preferences. Looks like it is structured to support IMAP with remote and local folder structures.
I'm a keyboard hound. In other words I prefer to navigate using the keyboard. Gyazmail supports this very nicely but there is a significant lag when I use the arrow keys to move from one folder to another, especially with large stores of mail.
Overall, I would recommend it highly to those who don't have large stores of mail. For power users, Eudora (actually) seems better suited (I'm talking BIG stores of mail) -
"Good stuff, but I am a cheapskate"
Version: GyazMail 0.9.9.7
Summary
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Gyaz is a very nice program - a little nicer than Mail.app. It would have to be much nicer for me to pay though. My favorite feature I wish Mail.app had: One key interactions ("R" instead of "Command-R" for reply)
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