Intuit, Quicken’s maker, seemed incapable of managing all the versions of Quicken it was working on, and years passed with nothing but bug and compatibility fixes. Each release generally, but not always, improved on the previous one. I used multiple iterations of Quicken from the early 2000s through the 2007-dated release, updating as often as new releases came out.
I’m not alone in keeping the coals of Quicken 2007 for Mac alive many of us huddle around its warmth. I’ll be ready to jump ship if the time comes, or if I wind up having to switch to an IMAP-only mail host. (Mail software eventually got smarter about options for auto-loading images and previewing attachments, too.)Īpple Mail has finally matured to a point in my installations where it doesn’t crash, corrupt mailboxes, or lose messages, and I use it for secondary accounts. HTML messages can also be a vector on some platforms for malware-by avoiding rendering and using a relatively obscure client, I felt I avoided being a target. I avoided HTML email for the longest time, because of a combination of poorly-formatted messages and tracking codes (single-pixel GIFs and other images) used to determine whether a message had been opened or not. (Messages can be searched via Spotlight, but not previewed.) Its built-in search engine, while powerful, uses its own, slow index format instead of leaning on Spotlight. It only handles POP for retrieving messages, not IMAP. It’s text only-it doesn’t display rich text or the HTML formatting of a message. Click the Safari icon, and the HTML attachment opens in a browser. Mailsmith had a lot in common with Eudora, but was even simpler.
I wanted to escape Eudora, which I’d used for many years and which was still under active development, but had become creaky and out of date. Rich Siegel, head of Bare Bones software, heard of my frustration related to email clients and introduced me to Mailsmith made by his firm. A number of years ago, I was on a large ship full of Mac enthusiasts as part of the first Mac Mania cruise.