[Sigia-l] Mac mail packages

[Listera]

A.F. Cossham:

This:

> No, I don't want to have to think about the product...

and this:

> ...but to be able to put them together how I want them to go together.

don't go together.

The only way to make sure a product "suits" you exactly is to design/develop
it yourself. If you are unable or unwilling to do that (which would likely
describe the predicament 99% of users out there find themselves in) then
you're going to have to live with some constraints.

Generally speaking, Mac OS X and its ecosystem rely on designers to make
meaningful decisions on product design for the benefit of users. You know,
designers, those morons who "put snazzy bells and whistles on it and lots of
pretty colours, and options that interfere with other options." There are
other OSes, for example, where the ability to "customise EVERYthing" is in
fact one of the primary platform goals. So you might be on the wrong
platform.

Design, after all, is not the art and science of inclusion (easy) but of
considered exclusion (extremely hard). Achieving a balance that *every* user
would find optimum ("customise EVERYTHING and am not forced to do
it the way someone else has decided is best") is neither possible nor
desirable. Designers are not grocers, they are cooks.

Incidentally, the only concrete requirement you mentioned (multiple accounts
with multiple email addresses) is a feature of Entourage, which is a great
email (/PIM) package.

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Ziya

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.