Tiger Continues to Disappoint

Slower: Spotlight makes everything slow. More disk activity for everything. Each incoming mail has to be saved not only in the mbox, but in this new "emlx" format. Plus, huge index files for searching. The result? Slow slow slow. Why index and create emlx files for SPAM, pray tell? Everything was working fine with SpamSieve until Tiger came along. What used to take a few seconds now can take a minute or more. If hours have gone by since the last Get Mail action, and I have a hundred or more emails coming in, Mail.app has to chug its way through each individual email, indexing, duplicating, who knows what else. This is not progress.

Uglier: The interface was better in the previous release. The new buttons are ugly, break some well-established design principles, and sometimes don't work at all (I've twice so far encountered Mail.app with broken buttons, half-drawn, or missing buttons in the tool bar -- very buggy!)

Less Flexible: Used to be if the user wanted the mailbox "drawer" on the right, the user could have it on the right. Not anymore. Now we are all forced to have it on the left. This is not progress.

Bottom line, I've turned off Spotlight altogether on my machine.

If only Qualcomm would decently fund Eudora and make it better than Mail.app, I'd switch back.