Courier -> PocoMail

Rose City Software says my favourite e-mail client Courier (ex Calypso) is no longer available. Instead, they say the majority of its features have been implemented in PocoMail. Poco is a commercial product and it’s all good with me as long as I won’t have to deal with Courier’s two major issues anymore: unreadable UTF (and often Windows-1251) encoded cyrillic messages and Vista problems causing crashed 1.5 GB box to repair for half an hour rendering the computer totally inoperable.

But it seems Rose City and Poco Systems forgot to agree on implementing a core feature. You just can’t import your Courier boxes in Poco. I would have laughed if it wasn’t ridiculous.

Anyway, I’ve downloaded the trial version and will give it a spin. Post will be updated on-the-fly.

Update 1: When cyrillic e-mail is sent by UTF incapable client (such as Courier), there are encoding problems in notification pane and tabs, while it displays correctly in view pane. When sent by Poco, the same email would display correctly in notification pane and tabs, but incorrectly in view pane.

Update 2: There are also problems with rich-text interpretation. About 80% of HTML emails I receive are shown simply as plain text, including HTML syntax. That makes it impossible to read the content. And so far, I haven’t found a way to switch to a plain text display or something that will strip HTML code. The only solution is to view it in browser, which is not an option for a busy daily routine.

Update 3: Not even going to mention the ludicrous way of creating HTML signatures and their even more imbecille usage afterwards. This… this deserves a fucking innovation prize!

Conclusion: It is an improvement over Courier, yes, but not what one would expect for their money.