Zoe

Am I wrong, or does this app retrieve email only from the Inbox of the Apple Mail app? I have rules set up to organize incoming mail into folders, and Zoe doesn't seem to retrieve those emails. This makes Zoe pretty much useless for those who already organize their emails in Mail. Is there a way around this, to enable Zoe to retrieve emails in folders? JP

Interesting that Google is trying to implement what Zoe does as a new email service, called Gmail, with lots of controversy about the privacy issues of having ones email on a commercial server, with the understanding that the service will be analyzing our email for commercial purposes. That discussion reminded me of Zoe and brought me back for another look. If one is tempted by Gmail, perhaps Zoe is a better way to have local control and privacy, and virtually unlimited space. And, it sounds easy to use Zoe to serve one's email online so you can get at it from wherever, assuming a static IP address. Perhaps the real innovation we need is static IP address service with our ISP accounts, at a reasonable price. Why should IP addresses be scarce? Same reason we had Y2K, not enough digits allocated?

The idea is great. The result is poor. The explanations are not easy to understand. I try Zoe. It is the last time. I am not able to use a great idea with this poor tool. Sorry

Zoe is mostly pointless- while you get an interesting way to look at your email(for example- by domain), and some ok full-text searching, you don't get much over a good email client with folders and good searching. Considering most people filter their email into different folders to keep it all apart anyway, what's the point? While I concede I might be wrong about Zoe's uselessness, the developers do a rather poor job of explaining a)specifically what Zoe does("makes your email easy to deal with" is NOT specific) and b)why I should install it- but the website does little more than give PR-speak talking about wonderful Zoe is and how much it will revolutionize how I use my email. Not HOW it will do so. Second, and this is just a personal pet peeve- I hate java. It's a horribly bloated, buggy, and slow language- case and point, it took forever for Zoe to 'index' about 100MB of mail, on a 1ghz powerbook. I also hate applications that use web UI's. Web UIs are for embedded devices, remote control, multiuser, etc... The web UI is needlessly clunky, and dangerous-hostile email is an excellent example(say, spam with tracker images).