And it’s among the few non-Microsoft mail programs that support Exchange email.įrom its poise and polish, you’d never know that Postbox was built on Thunderbird’s framework.
That said, Mail remains a dependable, pleasant workhorse of a client.
And the VIP feature can do little that Smart Mailboxes and mailbox rules couldn’t do already. You can add people to or remove them from your roster of special senders only within individual messages, not from a message list itself. The Lion upgrade sharpened Mail’s ability to find messages across multiple mailboxes, but Mountain Lion enhances its ability to find words and phrases within individual messages. Mail 6 sports a small handful of new features, and much of what it does offer owes more to features introduced in Mountain Lion OS X than to anything specific to Mail itself.īesides improving Safari’s ability to email webpages in various forms, and integrating Mountain Lion’s systemwide notification features, Mail 6 strengthens its predecessor’s already amped-up search powers.
