I am so delighted with Mail and and especially happy to be free of
Eudora. I hate the spellcheck program in Eudora and that aspect alone
makes Mail ten times better for me.
In over a year, I have never seen those error messages that seem to
negate everything positive in Mail for you. When I had @ Home/Excite,
90 % of my mail was spam in spite of my filtering attempts with Eudora
and later with Mail.
Although I hate AT&T generally, my @ attbi.com connection is absolutely
100 % free of spam so any alleged Mail deficiency as a spam filter is of
no consequence for me. I try to force my self to use Entourage for one
exclusive part of my responsibility (membership chairman for 650 member
club) but it much easier for me to do it all in Mail.
Mail.app is perfect for me with no problems. I use keystroke navigation
and have no notion about you mean with "slow window switching,"
"message-fade effects," and "constant spinning" for indexing.
I just now tried about a dozen window switches and another set of
indexing and there was no spinning beach ball; everything popped as I
clicked.
Obviously your mileage may vary.
Ron
Thanks for the comments, Ron!