I have come to the revelation that email is perhaps the most important application I currently use. I have spent the last 24 hours converting from the now defunct Claris Emailer 2.0 to Bare Bones MailSmith . MailSmith is strong like BBEdit, but it still took two updates to its 1.0 version before I was ready to make the plunge.
Anyway, I am back on my feet now, and probably better off.