Rich Siegel, CEO of Bare Bones, confirmed earlier this evening on the Mailsmith-Talk email list that Mailsmith will not be seeing IMAP support. In an attempt to lay to rest much oft-repeated rumors about the company's email client, Siegel said:

Since we released 2.1.5, an enormous amount of work has gone into Mailsmith. Much of that work is underneath the hood, toward supporting new features and improving performance & stability. The version of Mailsmith in which I am typing this message implements a great deal of what has in the past been discussed on this list.

Most of the rework that we've completed was started with IMAP support in mind. After several false starts on the whiteboard, however, we put down the pens and carefully backed away. Despite our best desires and intentions and efforts, Mailsmith is not going to support IMAP. (The FAQ has been updated accordingly.) So if you're one of those holdouts waiting for the next rev of Mailsmith to support IMAP, so you can switch over, you can stop waiting. I have never had much need for IMAP, so this is no big loss for me. Mailsmith remains my email client of choice, and despite temptation to switch to Apple Mail, especially with the new Leopard version on the horizon, I look forward to Mailsmith's next release with enthusiasm.

Recall the various pokes of fun Jobs and company took at Microsoft last month during Apple's World Wide Developers Conference? They're fresh in my mind, because yesterday I listened to Jobs' keynote; it was included in Engadget's podcast line-up, I'm a few episodes behind, and I figured, even though I knew all of the contained info from reading reports on the web, what the hell. A thought which hit me out of the blue a few moments ago, while I was cleaning dishes, of all things, is this: More than once, Jobs and company would say something to the effect of "We have other really cool new features coming in Leopard, but we don't want to share them here because Microsoft may try to copy them in to Vista." (Vista is, in case you've been in a cave with Osama, the next, long-delayed version of Windows. Leopard is the next version of Mac OS X.) Problem: Who is the largest developer for the Mac OS outside of Apple? Problem #2: Do you think Microsoft, being the largest developer outside of Apple, didn't send programmers to WWWDC? Problem #3: Did not all developers attending WWDC receive the Leopard Developer Preview? So I guess the jokes are just for those still trapped inside the RDF.

The whole downside to Apple switching to Intel-based processors is that my brand-new-this-past-February 20-inch Core Duo iMac now becomes outdated much faster than it previously would have.