A follow-on: One of the things I’ve disliked about Postbox is that it is one of the email clients that does not integrate with SpamSieve…so I’ve spent the past few years out in the wilderness, as has SpamSieve. My inbox ballooned to over 40,000 unread messages, almost all of them spamvertising. My recourse has been to set up Postbox filters to try to sift out some of the good marketing (and items like TidBITs) from the crap. Not ideal.
So I decided today to give Apple Mail another go. As I sit here I’ve migrated the one big email box (using IMAP, so no big deal), but it feels so limited. I have SpamSieve doing its thing, and it is in the process of winnowing out the junk after a cursory training. But I already know I’m not going to be happy with this…especially since I’ve wanted to integrate my email with the Activity panel on Busy Contacts, and I found out that Apple closed up all pathways to let BusyMac do that with the two most current MacOS releases.
So, the intersection of SpamSieve and Busy Contacts use turns out to be MailMate. Since I’m doing this winnowing using the IMAP interface on my own server, I’ll let the decluttering finish, then download the MM client.
Side gripe: it seems like contact managers and email clients are the most unstable applications to implement, relatively speaking of course. I don’t want to rehash all the excellent information above, but I fervently hope that (1) MailMate survives for a while longer, and (2) that BusyMac will someday release a Busy Contacts v2.