![]() Rearranging Your Life - Switching from Emailer to PowerMail feels like moving house (something I did just two months ago) – many things are the same, but are in different places or work in slightly different ways. If importing fails, there are other solutions, such as exporting your messages into text-only Eudora mailboxes, and then importing them from those mailboxes. I had no difficulty importing 2,000 messages and more than 400 addresses in a few hours, though some users on the PowerMail mailing list have had trouble, possibly because of importing very large numbers of messages. This may take some time and is worth running when you’re away from your Mac if you have a large Emailer database. ![]() The actual migration process is easy: an assistant guides you through the procedure of importing your Emailer mail database and address book directly into PowerMail. Converting from Emailer to PowerMail is a simple process, and I managed to become accustomed to PowerMail quickly. This program, although original in many ways, is intentionally similar to Emailer. Where Jeff settled on Eudora, in part to work more smoothly with the rest of the TidBITS editors, I’ve instead settled on PowerMail 3.0, the third version of a Macintosh-only email program by the Swiss company CTM Development. ![]() I’m seeing signs of fatigue even in Mac OS 9.0.4 – on my machine, Emailer crashes every time I try to rebuild its mail database.įeel the PowerMail - So, I went in search of a new email client. Emailer won’t work forever, and I worry that the upcoming Mac OS X may break it for good. It’s one of the most user-friendly applications I have ever used, but I’ve found myself thinking along the lines that TidBITS managing editor Jeff Carlson expressed in his recent article about switching from Emailer to Eudora. For the more than five years I’ve been using the Internet, Claris Emailer has been my tool of choice.
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