Adieu Apple Mail

Like just about everyone, I have to deal with two types of e-mail: personal and work-related. In terms of choosing clients, the latter doesn't really give me any options, because our company policy clearly states that we have to use Outlook on our workstations, and if not, we can access its webmail version (which unless you're sporting IE is practically as useful as SquirrelMail).

Now since I use a Mac for just about everything else, I've been conveniently attempting to go with Apple Mail. But that doesn't seem to work anymore (maybe Snow Leopard will look into it some more). The alternatives? Entourage or Thunderbird. Guess what - no, thank you!

The solution: plain old Gmail. The classic browser-based version. After reading last week about the proper implementation of Google Gears solving the 'offline access to e-mail' issue, I was convinced I could give it a shot. So I did. And it works. After spending an hour or so to put everything in order, assign the proper labels and set up my other mailboxes, I was set. And I finally get to (really) use the Ninja theme. BONUS: Google's neat little menu bar Notifier.