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The Bottom Line
MailSwitch is a nice and useful utility if you want multiple people to use Mac OS X Mail, but don't want to go through the log-out/log-in procedure every time.
Pros
- MailSwitch is easy to use
- Switch OS X Mail users without switching OS users
- MailSwitch lets you merge users and split mailboxes
Cons
- MailSwitch is "not the right thing"
- No password protection
- MailSwitch does not work across OS accounts
Description
- MailSwitch implements multiple Mac OS X Mail users.
- Works independently from the OS user account system.
- More than one person can use their own copy of Mail while the same user is logged on.
- MailSwitch can split mailboxes and move messages to a different user.
- In addition to mailboxes, MailSwitch supports OS X Address Book data.
- Users can also be merged with MailSwitch.
- MailSwitch supports Mac OS X.
Guide Review - MailSwitch 2.0.1
As a powerful UNIX operating system, Mac OS X supports multiple users, and so does its built-in Mail application. But to go from one user's Mail to another one's Mail, you have to log out and log in, possibly just to check for no new messages. The previous user has to log on again and restart all applications (including Mail)...
With MailSwitch, this detour to the log in screen is not necessary. MailSwitch implements a multi-user system for Mail independent from the system's users. It's easy to set up and use, but a password protection feature would be nice.
If OS X implemented multiple users logged on at the same time, MailSwitch should lose its job. But even then, splitting and merging mailboxes may be useful.
