This week, I picked a day when I could afford to take some time away from writing. I upgraded FileMaker Pro Advanced to version 17, as I use that for my accounts, and made sure that all other essential tools, like MarsEdit, were ready for Mojave before even thinking about upgrading my iMac. My hand was forced, and I finally settled on Postbox, which is proving a worthy successor. When Mojave was released, it was clear that Mailsmith was broken, possibly beyond repair. A former product of Bare Bones Software, developers of the wonderful BBEdit, Mailsmith is free but “no longer under active development”.Ĭhoosing an email client is never easy Entourage and Mailsmith had proved excellent over the years, and I really didn’t want to have to migrate my thousands of existing messages yet again. I came to Mailsmith when Microsoft killed Entourage, about eight years ago. I also spotted a problem with one of my most important apps, Mailsmith, the email client. The chances were that something fairly global could go wrong.
With Mojave and my iMac, the situation was different: I knew that the installer was going to do deeply internal things to the iMac’s Fusion Drive, changes which only a year ago Apple decided weren’t ready for the public. Yes, I have current Time Machine backups, but normally that is my only concession to safety. I admit that, when it comes to upgrading my Macs, I seldom follow my own advice.
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