A thought on Mail.app
It would be nice if there would be something like mail profiles separated by tabs in Mail.app. Let me explain what I mean: At home I use Mail.app at home for personal mail and Thunderbird for business mail. At work I use one account with Mail.app and other work accounts with Thunderbird. All accounts are IMAP based. The reason for this setup is, that I like separate accounts in a separate viewing space. That means I don’t want all messages to appear in every viewing space. Some accounts require more attention than others, while others are messages generated from automated systems or shared among multiple users. The problem arises that Thunderbird is not as nicely integrated into Mac OS X (address book, ical, spotlight) as Mail.app. But when I configure Mail.app to handle all accounts it gets very crowded in terms of screen estate and messages. When it is possible to start mail.app and have several mail viewers available for a group of accounts possibly handled by tabs in the viewer window, this would increase productivity. For example:
- tab1 [home]
- personal@mydomain.domain
- myother@my2nddomain.domain
- tab2 [work-personal]
- me@coorporation.domain
- tab3 [work-shared]
- support@coorporation.domain
- tab4 [system-messages]
- monitoring@ourcorp.domain
- cron@ourcorp.domain
When switching tabs, you will get a new viewer (left-pane and right-pane). Of course the icon in the dock, should somehow be configurable to show which messages are unread. I don’t know if someone likes this idea, but I guess it will be useful for many (business) people, but not for average joe with one email account. I for sure hope to see this in the next Mail.app release :-).