1254 Balzac is a new email application for OS X 10.4 and above, which aims to provide a simple view on your mail whilst allowing fast, sophisticated searches of past correspondence. It has been written to utilise all the advanced services available in OS X, from the address book to the built in spell-checker.

To see the messages in a mail view, you click on that view, just as you would a folder in another mail program - the messages matched by the view will then be displayed in the main browser window. Views which are inside other views (ie child views) search only the messages from the view above, so as you move down a hierarchy of views you will see fewer and fewer messages. You can see child views by clicking the arrow beside a view which has children. You can drag views around to reorder them, and double click them to change the title, just as you would expect.

To search the messages within a view, you can type a few words into the 'Search View' box at the top of the Browser window, and hit return to begin the search. Searches use Apple's Search Kit and are very quick, so you won't have to wait for results. You can also search on various parts of the messages - for example their date, or the from and to fields, or the flavour of the message. To do this you prefix your search terms with from:, to: etc. More sophisticated searches are also possible. Changing the search criteria for a view is a simple as clicking the 'Replace View' button.

Balzac features:
• Dynamic views on your mail (ie 'Smart Folders')
• User defined categories - messages can be in several categories at once
• An inbox which shows you messages from the last few days
• Fast searches on header fields or text content of all messages
• Customize the way you view your mail with HTML templates for list views and message views
• Send custom HTML email using templates
• Supports Growl notifications
Features include :
• Dynamic views on your mail (ie 'Smart Folders')
• A history menu much like a web-browser
• User defined categories - messages can be in several categories at once
• An inbox which shows you messages from the last few days
• Fast searches on header fields or text content of all messages
• Customize the way you view your mail with HTML templates for list views and message views
• Send custom HTML email using templates
• Security features for viewing HTML email
• Supports Growl notifications

New in version 1.0b28:
• Fixed bug introduced in b27 meaning messages could not be sent with ÔPlain TextÕ style
• Fixed bug meaning Trashed messages were showing up in other views
• Spam and Trash views can now have useful sub-views

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

System support:
PPC/Intel

$39.00 Shareware

For more information, visit:
http://www.mecanisme.net/software/balzac/

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