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Posted by Terry
Apr 18, 2008 at 06:24 PM
I have been using Becky for some years, tried Chaos Intellect and went back to Becky. It is incredibly flexible and powerful though the documentation is somewhat light.
It has a very powerful query function which can be saved and subsequently accessed as a pseudo folder, so your emails can be stored in one folder but also appear in others (useful when you want to file things not only by company but also by project and maybe by responsibility as well).
The basics are very well covered and mailbox support is particularly comprehensive. For example it includes ‘profile’ support so that any mailbox can be accessed easily through different ISPs depending whether you are at home in the office travelling or whatever. Mail files can be located anywhere on the system and are stored in text format, another plus.
It has a menu option to set itself up on a ‘thumb’ drive with (say) the last year’s emails so you can use it from a computer cafe and re-sync later, but rearrangements and deletions confuse it, so I use this facility just to receive and send, then re-sync when back at base. Interestingly, Intellect has a full sync facility with thumb drives and it works well with emails (though it does not copy set up files from other applications, so for example personalised task priorities are not copied across - maddening).
Becky has lots of un-obvious helpful features, for instance if you click the ‘From:’ bit (literally the word ‘from’) of an email header it will show you the ‘from’, ‘reply to’ and ‘return path’ headers and clicking on one of these gives options to ‘compose to’, ‘reply to’ or ‘add to address book’. This makes it particularly easy to use with the emailias service (which gives spam protection at low cost by giving you a different address to give to each correspondent, so you can quickly junk one if it becomes spammed). I recommend emailias very highly, particularly since the owner is very responsive to questions and requests. Intellect does not support emailias use.
At the last count Becky was US$40 including lifetime updates.
Web sites are:
http://www.rimarts.co.jp (Becky)
http://www.emailias.com (emailias)
Terry