Mailsmith for Mac
Robust email client from the makers of BBEdit, now free.
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Mailsmith overview
Mailsmith is a Internet email client for Mac OS X which offers unparalleled filtering, searching, editing and scripting capabilities. In addition to the strides made in these areas, Mailsmith breaks new ground in making powerful email-handling capabilities accessible to users of all levels.
Features
- Compatibility: Standards-based
- Multi-threaded processing
- Distributed Filters
- Approximate ("fuzzy") searching
- Advanced Querying for Mail: including options for using 'grep' pattern matching
- Powerful OSA scripting:
- Advanced text composition
- Integrated Spelling Checker
- Develop your own Mailsmith Plug-ins
- Integration with Internet Config System
What’s new in version 2.4.3
Version 2.4.3:
View older Mailsmith versions Note: Now requires OS X 10.9.5 or later.
Fixes:
- A latent bug in which some internal application data was stomped during application startup.
- A bug in which parsing of RFC822 commented-format email addresses (e.g. user@example.com (User Name)) didn't work correctly.
- Nonfunctional printing.
- Broken font panel behavior when running on macOS 10.12.
Mailsmith for Mac
Free
In English
Version 2.4.3
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Sep 20 2015
Version: 2.4
Have been using 2.4 for a while now, both in pre-release (which I never had a bug to report), and this release build. And it remains awesome. For those who need it spelled out, it's BBEdit, minus the coding features, for free. So if you used BBEdit for word processing (like myself), it's a pretty wonderful thing. As a cherry on top, it's also probably the best POP app for OSX. It has a ridiculously robust feature set for both text editing, and e-mailing.
As stated in my review below, if all of that means nothing to you, then Apple's Mail app is probably just fine for your purposes. For the rest of us, Mailsmith is the biggest bargin the Mac has to offer.
Sep 18 2015
Version: 2.4
MacUpdate needs to remove the tagline, "Robust email client from the makers of BBEdit." Barebones, the makers of BBEdit, transferred ownership of Mailsmith to Stickshift Software in 2009!! To continue to "tout" this app as a Barebones product is ridiculous and misleading.
Jul 2 2015
Version: 2.3.1
Tried it, didn't like it. The user interface looks like it was designed to around the time Mac OS X 10.2 or 10. 3. It looks like Mailsmith only supports the antiquated POP protocol as I cannot find any support for IMAP or Exchange protocols in Mailsmith's accounts section. The product hasn't been updated since 2011 so I can only assume that the developer is no longer supporting the product and that partly the reason why it is free now. A reviewer below (kingjj) said that this product was to the most expensive Mac mail client around before the license was changed to free. If I had of paid for this product I would be slightly cheesed off with the last of basic level of support for standard email protocols.
Jun 24 2015
Version: 2.3.1
Confusing and un-user friendly as a whole. Even the latest pre-release version crashes every minute or so. Trashed and doubt if I'll give it another try.
