![]() Right click email, set list rule, select destination directory, and done. And while Outlook Express on OS9 doesn’t automagically do it for you, it does have the easiest routine of setting up mailing list rules. There is no way to do this easily you’ll have to do it all manually. ![]() ![]() Setting those rules and directories up on new machines or installs is a pain in the ass. To manage them all, I have rules and filters which direct list emails into directories a directory for each list I’m subscribed to. I’m subscribed to all sorts of mailinglists to keep track of the news surrounding major projects, and as such, I get a lot of email every day. I have high standards when it comes to email applications (I wonder how on earth I manage to use Mail.app as my primary email client), as I have an intensive way of controlling email. I tried a few, but the best mail client I could find was Outlook Express:Mac. My second problem was finding a decent email client. It does its job well, albeit first startup is painfully slow. To cut a long story short, I settled on a build of Mozilla 1.3.1 (the newest I could find, dating 21-6-2003). It is a good browser, but something about the way it renders pages doesn’t appeal to me. While much, much better, iCab also did not fit my needs. The interface is a mess, and therefore it’s a pain to use. I did not like IE:Mac at all, since it sucked just as much on OS9 as it does on OSX. First thing I did, therefore, was to see if there was a OS9 build of Firefox– and was unhappy to see there is none (if you know more than I and Google do, please let me know). Since I had zero experience with OS9 other than the Classic environment in OSX, I had to start from square one when it came to available software. Then again, we’re talking unsupported software here, so it ain’t that big of a deal. And since both of these updates do not appear in the Update tool, you have to find and install them manually. You first have to update to 9.1.x, and then to 9.2.x. Installing OS9 was a breeze, although updating OS9 from 9.0 to 9.2.2 (the latest version) was a bit of pain. ![]() Both laughing, I opted for the mouse that works, pulled out my wallet, payed, drove home, and set the machine up. This tone on his end was perfectly worded when he asked, “do you want an Apple mouse, or a mouse that works?”. He happened to be an OSNews reader, so he knew who I was, so he understood why I bought the machine it was just clear from his tone that I should not expect all that much from the experience. The salesman at my local Apple-only retailer was quite cynical about the whole machine and its operating system. Note: Read more on the meta blog about the new Sunday eve column! However, I was in for a rather pleasant surprise. I did not expect I’d use the machine much. I wanted to experience first hand what OS9 was like. It came with a copy of MacOS 9– and that was what I bought it for. It was a 333Mhz G3 iMac with 96MB of RAM. Jobs’ company away from Apple was called “NeXT”, that I liked to joke about and call “LaST” because I did not believe it was going to make it.A few weeks ago, I did something crazy and shelled out 50 Euros for a G3 iMac. NextSTEP, the UNIX-like OS Steve Jobs came up when he exiled himself from Apple and started another company, it has been one of the main ingredients of the Mac’s successive OS versions after OS 9, since he returned to Apple and that these days go by the generic name of macOS, with early versions (when it was called OS X) that were named after big cats, and successive versions in recent years with California-themed names. I had the impression that Corel had gone down in quality and maybe was no longer around, But it seems that I was wrong about at least some of that. It was mentioned in another thread (don’t have a link) earlier in the year and I was surprised to learn of this there. Nathan, You may or may not be aware of this, but WordPerfect, from Corel, is still around:
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