08.31.2010
One itch I find myself needing to scratch every once in a while is the search for a new email client.
Recently I have been spending a lot of time in Postbox Express, and overall I have enjoyed my experience.
The one thing I loved about Mail.app was the searching, instant, real time results. Yesterday I was searching for an email in Postbox, and nothing was coming up in my results. I was able to locate it manually, but why didn’t Postbox find it?
My curiosity peaked, I wanted to see if see if Gmail could find it:
Negative. Back to Mail.app:
There it is! Not only did mail find it, but it was already down to 3 emails by the time I typed “para”, so what gives with the other 2 clients? I noticed that if I typed the full URL of the website, it worked fine in both Postbox and Gmail, but why should I have to do that?
I really can’t speak to the specifics of what is involved with a partial word search, but I know that I consider it expected behavior, so back to Mail.app I go.
I left Mail.app initially to avoid this:
and a few other annoyances related to attachment handling. What brings me back now is the requirement that I be able to quickly find an email I might need information from.
