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Moore’s Omnibus Guide To Mac Email Clients - 2005 Edition [UPDATED]

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Mac POP 3 email clients from E to Z



It's been nearly a year since my last Mac POP 3 email client roundup article was posted, and it continues to be one of my most often referenced aechives in response to reader queries.

As with previous guides, I've included only applications that can serve as full, standard POP 3 email client applications that can send, receive, and archive email, while other email utilities. that may do more limited things like checking to see if there is mail on your server were left out. I make no undertaking that this guide is 100 percent comprehensive, but I have tried to find every currently available Mac email application that meets the criteria outlined above. Apologies in advance for any inadvertant exclusions.

The email clients appear here in alphabetical order. Which Mac OS platforms they support are noted. I have used some of the applications listed, but not all of them by a long shot, so these profiles should not be construed as reviews. Links to full reviews of the applications (in some cases older versions than the current offerings) that I have tested will be provided.

With so many choices available, you should be able to find an email client that will set your needs and tastes too a "T".

Mac email clients in alphabetical order:



Eudora 6.2.1
Eudora Light 3.1.3
GNUMail 1.1 Cocoa Email Client For GNUstep and Mac OS X
GyazMail 1.2.4 Cocoa Email Client
Magellan Pro 1.5.2 Email Management Tool
Mac OS X Mail
Mailsmith 2.1
Mozilla 1.7.3
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0
Mulberry 3.1.6
Musashi 3.4.1
Netscape 7.2
Nisus Email 1.6.1
Opera 8.0 Preview 1
Outlook Express 5.0.2 and Entourage for Mac
POPmail 2.2
POPmail/Lab 1.2
PowerMail 5.1
QuickMail Pro 3.5.1
Zoe 0.6.2 Unique Email Client That Works Through A Web Browser


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Eudora 6.2.1
(OS X - Version 6.1 still available for Classic users)

Eudora is in my opinion the all-round cream of the crop in full-featured, heavy-duty, free, e-mail clients. Indeed, were I obliged to use just one email application, it would have to be Eudora, which has every feature you're likely to need in an email client, and a lot more besides. Other clients may do particular tasks better than Eudora -- for example, Nisus Email's wonderful one-click messaging and OS X Mail's spam filtering -- but few, if any other clients handle all aspects of email management as comprehensively well as Eudora does, and version 6.0 further enhances its already formidible desirability and capability.

I like the way that Eudora archives saved messages in categorized, draggable, and easy to identify mailbox files that can be opened and searched with a word-processor or text editor. I have dragged Eudora mailboxes around among various versions of Eudora from the old Eudora Light 1.5 that I used with System 6, to the most recent release of Eudora 5.2. That kind of flexibility is tough to beat.

ScamWatch: This new feature combats "phishing" schemes that use disguised URL's to gather personal information. Eudora now detects if the URL in the link differs suspiciously from the host name and warns you to exercise caution before making the connection.

OpenSSL: The state-of-the art standard in email security and encryption.

Improved IMAP

Emoticons: 24 new originally designed emoticons (not in Light mode).

SpamWatch: (Paid mode only) Ă¯Â¿Â½ a powerful tool in Eudora 6 to help you stop Spam

WebWords combines email and web searching.

Content Concentrator Ă¯Â¿Â½ a new tool in Eudora 6 to help makes messages more readable.

Contextual Filing advanced matching: Select a word within a message, and with one click, file it in a folder or mailbox of the same name, or containing that word. A word or words selected within a message can be filed with a single click in a folder or mailbox that contains the same words.

Mac OS X importer and address book sync: Simple import for Apple Mail into Eudora. Eudora now takes advantage of the Apple address book to provide the best of all email and address functionality.

Mailbox Drawer: (Mac OS X only) Convenient access to all mailboxes from any mailbox window.

New Toolbar Icons: In Eudora 6, upgrade to the new icon look. Or, if preferred, the option to maintain the classic look is also provided.

Fast, Powerful Search

Enhanced Filters

Virus Protection: Eudora doesn't allow anything to run from your mail unless you want it to, which stops viruses and trojan horses cold. Eudora also warns users about opening potentially dangerous content.

Drag and Drop Attachments: Drag attachments from an email on your desktop or from your desktop into an email.

Formatting and Styles: You can generate styled text (font, color, size, style, margins, etc.) from the Text menu. You can also paste in styled text. Styles are maintained when included in replies and forwarded messages.

In-line spell checking: Eudora highlights the misspelled words in your message. You can review, override and add words to your dictionary.

Color Labeling

Customize your Toolbar

Mail Sort: Sort the contents of a mailbox by clicking on a column header. You can choose to sort by Sender, Date, Subject, Label color, etc.

Import: Easy import from other common email clients.

Kerberos V Authentication: One-time security login for site licensees.

Eudora Sharing Protocol (ESP): Automatically sync and share files with family, friends and co-workers. No need for a separate server or resending large attachments.

Powerful Address Book: Automatic email address listings. Enter custom fields and multiple nicknames. Drag and drop nicknames to the toolbar for quick new message creation. Integrated VCard support.

MoodWatch: Lets you know about the flame content in incoming and outgoing emails.

Email Usage Stats: offers private, personal and interesting insight to a user's day-to-day email activity and patterns.

Multi-tasking: Compose, receive and send mail simultaneously. By checking and sending mail as a background operation, Eudora lets you work in other applications while your email is transferring.

Automatic Name and Address Completion: Eudora automatically completes the recipient name you are typing using information from your Address Book.

Task Progress Window

Personalities: You can create various names from which you send and receive email with the Personalities settings.

Animated GIF Images: (Mac only) Turn on this feature in the Fonts & Display Setting to view animated GIF images.

IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol allows you to access email stored on a remote server. Using IMAP you can switch from computer to computer and still see the same Eudora interface from multiple locations.

LDAP Directory Services: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) allows you to look up contacts using LDAP servers such as WhoWhere.

SSL: Secure Socket Layer support

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.0 or higher
• Eudora 6.1 is still available for download and sale for Mac Classic users.

After downloading and running the Eudora installer, you can choose the Eudora that's best for you:

Paid mode [$39.95/$49.95]:
• Award winning, feature-rich version (includes SpamWatch)
• Access to person-to-person technical support
• 12 months of upgrades included

Sponsored mode:
• The same software features as Paid mode (except for SpamWatch)
• Ad window and up to 3 sponsored toolbar links
• No person-to-person technical support

Light mode:
• Fewer features, but it is still free
• No ad window
• No person-to-person technical support

All three modes are accessible within the application once you've installed and launched it.

For more information, visit:
http://www.eudora.com/download/

For my full review of Eudora (5.0) visit:
http://www.applelinks.com/mooresviews/eudora5.shtml

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Eudora Light 3.1.3
(Classic PPC; Classic 68k)

Eudora Light it is fast, stable, has an unobtrusive interface, and very few aggravating aspects. Its biggest shortcomings until recently have been its mediocre search engine and filter support, and its non-support of multiple email accounts. However, an increasingly serious deficiency of Eudora Light now that many ISPs and email services (such as Apple's mac.com for instance) are implementing SMTP authentication as an anti-spam measure, and Eudora Light doesn't support authentication. This also means that Eudora fans with 68k Macs are increasingly out of luck.

Those points notwithstanding, for slick, basic email handling, this program still works fine under Mac OS 9.1, although of course there will be no OS X version Eudora 6.x has a free "lite" version).

As noted above, Eudora Light 3.1.3, is no longer supported by Qualcomm, but still available on the Eudora ftp site if you go looking for it. To save you the trouble, here is the URL:
ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/eudoralight/mac/english/
or
ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/eudoralight/mac/english/3.1.3/eudoralight313.hqx

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GNUMail 1.1 Cocoa Email Client For GNUstep and Mac OS X
(OS X)

GUNMail is billed as a "complete and fast email app," and it lives up to that description. It is a fully featured mail application running that supports Linux (or FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc) as well as OS X, using the GNUstep development framework or Apple Cocoa, which is based on the OpenStep specification developed by OS X's progenitor, NeXT, Inc.. GNUMail.app is licensed under the GPL, and the full source code for the application are available.

The current version of GNUMail.app is 1.1.0. This release is quite stable and rich in functionalities and will work well for a day-to-day use.

Version 1.1.0 has the following supported features:
Multiple POP3 (with APOP support) accounts with local cache support (for leaving messages on server);
Multiple delivery agents (SMTP or local mailer);
Mail spool file support for receiving;
Good IMAP support with local caching;
Full RFC822 and RFC2822 support;
Read, compose, bounce, reply and forward mails;
Mailbox management (create, delete, locking and transfer messages) using the Berkeley mbox format;
Personal preferences management;
MIME support (decode and encode);
A full MIME types manager;
Quoted Printable and BASE64 support;
Address Book with groups support;
Find Panel with regular expressions support;
Automatic or manual fetching of your mails (user's choice);
Powerful filters that supports regular expressions;
GPG (PGP) support through a bundle;
Messages threading;

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

GNUMail.app is freeware

For more information, visit here.
http://www.collaboration-world.com/cgi-bin/collaboration-world/project/index.cgi?pid=2/

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GyazMail 1.2.4 Cocoa Email Client
[OS X 10.1 up]

GyazMail is an all-new email client for Mac OS X, developed from the ground up to offer you a full-featured but easy-to-use package based on the Cocoa framework.

GyazMail's Major Features
• Multiple accounts
• Storing individual messages as single files (RFC 822 format)
• Multiple character set support, including UTF-8 (Unicode)
• Main window with 2 or 3 panes
• Complete customization of display fonts & window colors
• Message threading
• HTML message display
• Junk (Spam) Mail Filter (SpamSieve) support
• Ability to search messages across multiple folders and with multiple criteria
• Rules and Filters for incoming messages
• Templates and Editable reply header for outgoing messages
• Sends messages individually or in batches
• POP3 (APOP), SMTP (POP before SMTP, SMTP AUTH) support
• SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) support
• RFC 2822 (822) support
• MIME support
• Remote message function
• Fully customizable keyboard shortcuts
• Synchronization with Apple's Address Book (Mac OS X 10.2 or later)
• Mail address auto-completion
• Numerous Dock-related features
• Message import (Unix Mailbox, Apple Mail)
• Message export (Unix Mailbox)
• Regular Expressions support (Oniguruma)

New in this version:

New Features
• Added "Validate SSL certificate" option (to the Outgoing Mail Server dialog and the Receiving tab of Account preferences).
Use of this option requires the root certificate that will be used to validate the server certificate be installed in the OS X keychain (major ISP's certificates are pre-installed). Requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
• Added support for Growl (Account and Rule preferences).
• Added ability to customize colors of remote messages (Message List tab of Fonts & Colors preferences).
• Added option to sort messages by the latest date (number) in the thread (Display preferences).
• Added options to close windows, open next message, etc. after moving or deleting a message (Display preferences).
• Added option to convert non-breaking spaces (U+00A0) to spaces (U+0020; General tab of Compose preferences).
Turning this option on will convert all non-breaking spaces (which are frequently used in HTML mail) into spaces when saved. Multibyte-character mail, such as Japanese, sent with non-breaking spaces ends up coded as Unicode (UTF-8).
• Added "Recipient's name" display options (by name, nickname, address, etc.; Address tab of Compose preferences).
• Added ability to select messages X days before or after a selected date (Rules).
• Added "Delete message immediately" to "Other Keys" that can be customized (Key Assignments preferences).
• Added "Warn before deleting message permanently" and "Warn when moving messages to the Trash" options (Misc. Preferences).
• Added "Don't check messages automatically when not connected to a network" and "Don't check messages automatically when on battery power" options (Misc. preferences).
• Added "Mark All Messages As Read" option (Folder menu).
• AppleScript Support (2)
Added commands related to the message editor to GyazMail's AppleScript support.

Improvements
• Improved processing of incoming messages.
• Improved file handling.
• Added display of incoming message size to Progress window.
• Added deletion of orphaned SMTP server information when deleting mail accounts.
• Changed maximum number of characters per line to 990 from 998 when word wrap is turned off.
• No longer alphabetizes address candidates from Address Book when "Show candidates alphabetically" in the Address tab of Compose preferences is unchecked.
• "Previous" and "Next" message buttons in the main window and message viewer now move to the previous (or next) message in the current sort order (Key Assignments for these same functions also changed in the same way).
• Templates now are saved properly when stored in a folder within the Drafts folder.
• Improved mail address analysis routines.
• Improved URL analysis routines.
• Improved Multipart message analysis routines.
• Improved the method of generating Message-IDs.
• Upgraded regular expression library to Oniguruma ver. 3.5.2.
• Changed layout of Account, Rules and Folder dialogs.
• Added "Previewer" toolbar item to main window.
• Reversed the on/off icons in the message editor for "Read Receipt" and "Word Wrap" functions.
• Traditional Chinese localization added! Thanks to Jack M.H.Lin. grin
• Other minor improvements.

Several Bugs Fixed

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

GyazMail is $18.00 shareware

For more information, visit:
http://www.gyazsquare.com/gyazmail/index.php

For a mini-review of GyazMail (version 0.8.1) see OS X Odyssey 162:
http://www.applelinks.com/news/odyssey/

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Magellan Pro 1.5.2 Email Management Tool
[OS 8.6 up/OS X 10.1.5 up]

Magellan Pro is designed as an email management tool for people who handles lots of email every day.

Magellan Pro automates mail processing.
• According to the contents of received mail, reply mail is automatic-created, and transmits.
• Spam mails are a garbage can automatically.
• Only important mails are forward to a cellular phone. Of cause specification of length is possible.

Main features of Magellan Pro
• Read messages in "View." View is an epoch-making management way of e-mail messages, it is easier and better than folder.
• Folder is also supported.
• Spam filter by accurate content analysis works without any other plug-ins.
• history and bookmark feature like as browser
Speedy and easy to access to the specified mail.
• Automated responder: Magellan Pro automated reply according to the contents of received mail.
• Automated mail forward works on multiple accounts.
• Sherlock Index search is available as well as normal search. (OS9 only)
• Multilingual email is available. Any languages can correctly be send and received.
• Fastest performance of all e-mail clients. Try and compare to others.
• Email application has to be stable enough to keep working all day. Compare the stability.
• Even if your received email has garbage characters, you can change to correct character encoding.

System requirements:
Hardware and MacOS PowerMacintosh with 6MB of memory, 10MB or over space of hard drive (HFS+ is recommended.)
MacOS 8.6 or newer, TextEncoding Converter 1.31 or newer, Internet control panel is available.Internet config 1.4 or newer.)

For OS X version
Mac OSX 10.15 or later
For multilingual email To use multilingual email, Language Kit of Apple Computer or localized system is required. Recommended Format of hard drive is HFS+.
Index search by Sherlock MacOS 9.0 or newer is required.

Magellan Pro is $25.00 shareware

For more information, visit:
http://www.makienterprise.com/magellanpro/magellanpro.html

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Mac OS X Mail
(OS X)

One of revolutionary features in MAC OS X is a powerful email client built right into Apple's new operating system.

OS X Panther's Mail app. comes with sophisticated built-in junk mail (spam) filtering that uses adaptive latent semantic analysis to identify and nail junk mail messages and simple controls you need to train it to agree with your view of what’s junk and what’s not — like the Junk button in the Toolbar that lets you so label any messages you choose, and the Not Junk override that appears on any message either you or the built-in filter labeled. When you’re satisfied that you and the filter are on the same page, checking the Automatic option sends everything the filter identifies straight to a junk mail folder which you can set to empty automatically either daily, weekly, monthly or whenever you quit Mail.

There’s also the ability to easily spot all the messages in a reply thread, plus more powerful and flexible rule making for automatically handling mail you receive regularly.

If you get a lot of email on a common topic or thread, you know how frustrating it can be to keep it all straight — especially when someone decides to change the email’s subject line. But Panther Mail takes all the work out of managing email threads.

Mail can track multiple threads with the same subject line. Let’s say you have a lively discussion going “Regarding the Jones account” with numerous emails flying back and forth, some discussing “pricing issues” while others discuss “logistics” and still others address “resource concerns.” Mail can keep the thread on “pricing” separate from the threads on “logistics” and “resources,” assigning the various emails to the appropriate thread and making it easy for you to follow (and respond to if necessary) the three separate threads or discussions. And if someone changes the subject line, Mail is smart enough to keep it grouped with the previous conversation.

The Thread Summary page provides information about the emails it contains: which you’ve read, who sent them, when they were sent and which came with attachments. This makes it easy to file or delete an entire conversation. Incoming mails pop the thread to the top of your mailbox, giving you context for the new messages. Instant organization.

Mail now automatically shortens email addresses listed in your Address Book. So you’ll see simply “Jane Doe” in the “From” or “To” field, instead of “Jane Doe <janedoe@prettylongaddress.com>.” Chalk one up for legibility. Meanwhile, unfamiliar names — those not in your Address Book — still appear in full (name and email address). Not to worry, a drop down menu associated with each address lets you easily add those unfamiliar names to your Address Book.

Mail now uses the same HTML rendering engine used by Safari. As a result, HTML email loads more quickly, displays more accurately and offers better handling of cascading style sheets, animated GIFs and forms — even URLs embedded within forms.

Mac OS X Mail supports drag and drop attachments from the Finder and the automatic display of photos in the messages themselves. Chat with MailNow that system integration has been extended to include QuickTime, so you can watch QuickTime movies right in the message instead of in a disconnected window belonging to a different app. And Mail’s integration with Address Book and iChat lets you see from within Mail who you could reach via iChat.

Mail has borrowed and enhanced Eudora 5's on the fly spell checking. When you type in a word Mail doesn’t recognize, the program underlines the questionable word. Simply control-click on it, and a popup menu appears offering you correct spellings to choose from. That's very cool.

Mail now packs an improved filtering engine, offers better accuracy, includes more filtering options and provides more powerful protection against spammers.

If, for example, your ISP uses Spam Assassin, Brightmail or another spam-analysis tool, Mail can now leverage that analysis. You’ll find an option for doing so in the new Junk Mail preferences panel. To further ensure your privacy, you can also direct Mail NOT to download images included in junk messages, thus circumventing a common trick used by spammers.

Becoming attached to Mail
• Attachments and summary information about them now can appear in the email header (as well as inline). A convenient Save All button lets you download all attachments in one fell swoop.
• Headers appear in an elegant style distinct from that used in the body of your email. What’s more, the headers are fully customizable.
• Can’t remember how you responded to Randy’s outrageous request? Simply click the “replied” status icon to display your reply.
• If you have a preference for how you’d like your signature to appear — above or below quoted text — Mail now can make it so.
• Finally, a new status notification icon lets you know you’re offline, which you can click to go online.

For more information, visit:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail/

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Mailsmith 2.1
[OSX 10.2 or later required; Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later recommended]

Mailsmith is an extra-strength email client designed for Macintosh users. Thanks to its flexibility, customers can customize Mailsmith's powerful editing, filtering, and searching capabilities to suit their particular needs.

Mailsmith 2.0 has added seamless integration with SpamSieve, integrated support for Mac OS X technologies including the Apple Address Book, integrated support for PGP 8.0, and over 150 distinct improvements.

Mailsmith incorporates the text editing power and functionality of our flagship product, BBEdit. Like BBEdit, Mailsmith's text editing architecture is scriptable and extensible. In short, if you like writing text in BBEdit, you'll love writing email in Mailsmith. Mailsmith's composition features include:

• Glossary -- insert frequently used text snippets with a single mouse click or keystroke.
• Quoted Text Rewrapper -- Cleans up poorly formatted messages.
• Configurable Keyboard Shortcuts -- Mailsmith allows you to change (or remove) the keyboard shortcuts for any menu command, AppleScript, Glossary item, or Plug-In.
• Multiple Clipboards

Mailsmith makes email filtering both easy and powerful. There is no limit on the number of criteria to match against or actions to take. Criteria can match against any header, the contents of the message body, as well as many other message properties. You can put together powerful, multi-criteria filters with just a few mouse clicks. Plus, filters can take advantage of Mailsmith's powerful grep pattern matching engine, which provides a Perl-compatible regular expression syntax.

Filter actions can do a lot more than simply moving messages from one mailbox to another. They can apply message labels, play sounds, and much more. Filters can even run AppleScripts.

Not only is Mailsmith a scriptable mail client -- giving you scripting access to checking mail, sending messages, and moving messages between mailboxes -- but it's also a fully scriptable text editor. Most AppleScripts written for BBEdit work in Mailsmith.

Plus, because Mailsmith is recordable, you don't have to know how to program in AppleScript to create scripts of your own. To start recording a new script, just choose Start Recording from Mailsmith's Script menu.

One technique for fighting back against spammers is to report their activity to the administrators of their ISPs and network providers. Mailsmith makes this easy, by offering direct integration with SpamCop, a free online service that sends reports to spammers' administrators for you.

Mailsmith feature highlights

• Powerful filtering system to organize and process email
• Stationery and Glossary support
• Pervasive AppleScript support
• Integrated support for SpamSieve
• BBEdit-powered text editing and transformation
• Integrated support for PGP 8.0
• Text-only email
• Integrated support for the Apple Address Book

Fir a complete features list go here:
http://www.barebones.com/products/mailsmith/features.shtml

Mac OS X:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or later required; Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later strongly recommended.
• Fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.3 and later; Mac OS X 10.3.2 or later strongly recommended.

Price: Ă¯Â¿Â½ $99.00
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http://www.barebones.com/products/mailsmith/index.shtml

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Mozilla 1.7.3
(OS X)

Mozilla is an open-source Web Browser that includes a very capable email client module. Mozilla provides underpinnings of the Netscape 6 and 7 series of browsers. It includes all of the main features of Netscape 6-7.x, including the Mail client.

At one time it was thought that version 1.4 would be the last Mozilla suite browser ever, and FireBird, which became Firefox along with its companion Thunderbird email client application (see below), are slated to eventually replace the suite application. Mozilla 1.7 is a nice piece of work if you like the suite concept, and a Mozilla 1.8 alpha is available for download as well.

Be forewarned, Mozilla is pretty big and RAM-hungry, but it's a fast, powerful browser as well as an email client.

Mozilla Mail has basic junk mail classification capabilities. This means you can train your client to distinguish between good mail and junk mail. See the release notes for more info.

New in Mozilla 1.7.3 Mail:

Many improvements to Palm Sync.
IMAP IDLE support has been added.
Support for "MSN Authentication" and Secure Password Authentication using SSPI NTLM auth for SMTP and POP3.
A new preference to "always use the default character encoding for replies" rather than using the encoding of the message being replied to.
Improvements to performance of downloading, viewing, and saving mail messages.
Support for multiple identities on the same mail account. See the Multiple Identity Support documentation for more details.
Support for relative paths for mail folders in prefs.js. This makes it easier to copy profiles around without having to fix up prefs.js afterwards.
You can now edit address lists containing "Last, First" style names.
When composing mail, you can now use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through the To/Cc/Bcc list.
On Mac OS X, attachment file names are no longer displayed in decomposed Unicode but are converted to composed Unicode.
All Mozilla LDAP queries now default to using LDAPv3 (previously, they used LDAPv2). Mozilla should gracefully fall back to v2 if v3 isn't found.

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.0 or higher

Mozilla is freeware

For more information, visit:
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/

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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0
[OS X]

Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. The intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firebird (or another stand alone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with the browser. In addition, by focusing solely on stand alone mail, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the mail client by removing components and chrome we don't need. On top of that, the UI becomes much cleaner as a stand alone application as opposed to being part of the Mozilla suite.

Thunderbird provides effective tools for detecting junk mail. Our tools analyze your e-mail and identify those that are most likely to be junk. You can automatically have your junk mail deleted or you can put it in a folder you specify, just in case you like reading junk mail.

View your e-mail the way you want it. Access your e-mail with Thunderbird's new three-column view. Customize your toolbar, change its look with themes, and use Mail Views to quickly sort through your e-mail.

Thunderbird provides enterprise and government grade security features such as S/MIME, digital signing, message encryption, support for certificates and security devices.

Thunderbird gives you IMAP/POP support, a built-in RSS reader, support for HTML mail, powerful quick search, saved search folders, advanced message filtering, message grouping, labels, return receipts, smart address book LDAP address completion, import tools, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts.

Thunderbird lets you add additional features as you need them through extensions. Extensions are a powerful tool to help you build a mail client that meets your specific needs.

In addition to the feature set found in Mozilla Mail, Thunderbird has several new features and improvements to make your mail and new experience better. Highlights include:

&#149; The ability to customize your toolbars the way you want them. Choose View / Toolbars / Customize inside any window.
&#149; UI extensions can be added to Mozilla Thunderbird to customize your experiene with specific features and enchancements that you need. Support for extensions. Extensions allow you to add features particular to your needs such as offline mail support. A full list of available extensions can be found here.
&#149; A new look and feel. Thunderbird also supports a large number of downloadable themes which alter the appearance of the client.
&#149; An addressing sidebar for mail compose which makes it easy and convient to add address book contacts to emails.
&#149; Online help includes a FAQ, tips and tricks and other useful information.
&#149; Simplified preferences UI and menus.
&#149; Footprint and performance improvements.

New in this version:
&#149; Adaptive Junk Mail Controls
&#149; RSS Integration
&#149; Saved Search Folders
Saved Search Folders display messages based on previously set search criteria. For example, instead of filtering messages into a new folder, you can create a Saved Search Folder that lists all the messages received from a certain person over the past 30 days, even if those messages are stored in different folders and subfolders.
&#149; Global Inbox Support
POP3 users can now combine all of their POP3 accounts into a single global inbox under local folders.
&#149; Message Grouping
You can now group messages in a folder by attributes such as date, sender, priority or a custom label. For instance, a folder grouped by date will group messages from today, yesterday, last week, etc. into self-contained groups in the message list pane. (View &gt; Sort By &gt; Grouped By Sort)
&#149; Privacy Protection
In order to help protect your privacy, Thunderbird now automatically blocks remote image requests in emails from senders you don't know.
&#149; Comprehensive Mail Migration from other Mail Clients
Switching to Thunderbird has never been easier since Thunderbird can now migrate all of your email data including settings, mail folders and address book data from common mail applications such as the Mozilla 1.x Suite, Outlook Express, Outlook and Eudora.

System requirements:
&#149; Mac OS X 10.0 or higher

Mozilla Thunderbird is freeware

For more information, visit:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

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Mulberry 3.1.6
(OS X; Classic PPC)

Mulberry is a high-performance, scalable internet mail client. It uses the IMAP (IMAP4rev1, IMAP4, and IMAP2bis) protocol for accessing mail messages on a server, the standard SMTP protocol for sending messages, and does lots and lots of things with MIME parts for mixed text and "attachments" of many different types of files and data. The Mulberry v3.0 release is now available. This brand new release features a redesigned UI that provides an optional 3-pane layout as well as preview panes for other windows. Version 3.0 introduces support for a new optional 3-pane window mode, as well as many other features, enhancements and fixes.

Mulberry v3.x features include:
• New look user interface with standard toolbar look-and-feel.
• New optional 3-pane window layout in addition to the traditonal (v2) separate windows mode. Can toggle between modes on the fly.
• Tabbed mailbox pane in 3-pane mode allows quick switching between multiple open mailboxes.
• All actions for trigger preview and full view of mailboxes, messages, address books etc fully configurable.
• Separate mailbox and address book windows now have optional preview pane.
• New-look address book window with configurable columns and click-on-column sorting.
• New text macros facility to quickly insert commonly used text in drafts.
• Now supports processing and requesting or read-receipts.
• Many, many fixes and lesser enhancements.
• A comprehensive list of all changes can be found in the release notes for this version.

New in version 3.1
S/MIME cryptography support.
Support for PGP v8.
SSL client-side authentication.
LDAPv3 with SSL support.
Eight user defined message labels with text style and colouring.
Mailbox tabs have new mail indicator.
New verify/decrypt status displayed in message pane.
New quick keyboard shortcuts for common email operations.

System requirements:
System 8.6 or later required - supports OS X natively

Mulberry is $35.95 shareware

For more information, visit:
http://www.cyrusoft.com/mulberry/

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Musashi 3.4.1
(OS X; Classic PPC; Classoc 68k)

Musashi supports basic email client functions as well as many more useful and unique features including message searching and message filtering, and is one of the few currently deveoped email clients that still supports 68k Macs.

Since Musashi is multi-user compatible, multiple users can share one Musashi application. This is very powerful in small-medium office (including SOHO) where three or four persons share on Macintosh. Of course the data of each user is protected by password.

Musashi is multi-account compatible. This is very useful for the person who use multiple ISP or has multiple email addresses. There is no annoyance operation to switch account settings.

You can customize the graphical user interface of Musashi with module.

Musashi is very useful and powerful. But it is very small application, and another of a select few that runs on older Macintoshes (e.g. 68K Macintosh like LC series) smoothly.

Other Features:
• Drag & drop operation
• Background send and receive and searching and filtering are also supported
• filtering
• Runs with 2 MB RAM partition
• Musashi is powerful. But it is very small application. So it runs on old type Macintosh (e.g. 68K Macintosh like LC series) smoothly.

System requirements:
• System 7 - OS X
Musashi is $33 shareware.

For more information, visit:
http://www.sonosoft.com/musashi.html
or
http://www.sonosoft.com/download.html#mu

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Netscape 7.2
[OS X 10.1 up]

Netscape 7.2 is the full zoot, "commercial," AOL-ized version of Mozilla, and includes a Web browser (Navigator); HTML authoring environment (Composer); a POP 3 email client (Mail) as well as a newsreader and instant messenger.

In configuration it is thus similar to older versions of Netscape, but it is an entirely new application from the ground up, based on the open source Mozilla browser.

Netscape Mail is a powerful and complete tool you can rely on to manage email the way you want.

Faster than previous versions
Has new, enhanced security features
Improved popup window controls
Quick Search
Mail Alerts
Mail Labels
Easy Filter Setup
Get Map from Address Book
Easy Importing from Other Mail Programs
Support for AOL Mail or Free Netscape Mail

Enhanced Mail Performance makes Netscape 7.2 Netscape's fastest e-mail product ever.
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Quick Search lets you find an e-mail address or message within your e-mail inbox lightning-fast. Type only a few letters in the Quick Search field, and matching results come up based on the subject line or sender-instantly.

Like Quick Search in Mail, Quick Search in Address Book locates a name instantly without needless scrolling.
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Mail Alerts give discreet notification of new e-mail messages in your computer's system tray-even if you don't have Netscape open on your desktop.

Mail Labels let you organize your inbox or folders with color and categories that you set, such as "ASAP", "To Do", "Personal", or a project name. You can then sort by Label to help you prioritize or find a message.

Easy Mail Filter Set-up offers an easy and personalized way to organize incoming e-mail or quickly send spam messages to the trash.
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Get Map from within an address card serves up immediate results from MapQuest so getting directions is fast and convenient from your Address Book.
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Importing Mail from other programs is easy. Netscape 7.0 offers all-in-one import of e-mail messages, account settings and address books from other mail programs such as Eudora, Outlook and Outlook Express.
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Support for AOL Mail or Free Netscape Mail within Netscape 7.2 Mail includes a simple to use Wizard that let's you configure AOL Mail (if you are a member) or a free Netscape.com mail account. AOL members can also take advantage of important AOL mail features such as the ability to unsend messages, check message status, and mark mail as unread.
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Does Netscape 7.2 work as an email client? Well, if you like all your eggs in one basket, so to speak, this (or Netscape Communicator 4.8) is your application.

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1.x
Mac OS X 10.2.x and later

Minimum Hardware
PowerPC 400 MHz
G3, G4, 256 MB RAM
60 MB of free hard disk space

Netscape 7.2 is freeware.

To download Netscape 7.2 either boot up your Netscape installer, or download the installer at:
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp

If you would rather use one of the most fully developed, albeit a bit dated, pieces of Internet software, try Netscape Communicator 4.8, which is still available, and includes the same suite of applications as Netscape 7.2.

The much older and pokier Communicator 4.08 is also still available to support 680x0 Macs.

ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.77/mac/

To download Netscape 7.2, visit:
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp

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Nisus Email 1.6.1
(OS X; Classic PPC)

One of the Mac email clients that I use every day is Nisus Email, which, in the Nisus tradition, offers features distinctly different from any other e-mail program.

Among these, the most unique are Nisus Email's ability to integrate its functions with virtually any text-crunching program, and to send chunks of dragged and dropped text or attached files with just a couple of mouse clicks.

Working from a word-processor or text editor, you have access to much wider variety of text formatting and proofing functions than even in powerful e-mail client Eudora 5.0.1.

Nisus Email is one of the easiest Mac email clients to send quick messages with. After all, how hard is it to drag and drop text from any word processor or text editor to Nisus Email's contact icon and swoosh! Away it goes!

Integration with a word processor makes sending email from your favorite word processor ("Nisus Writer is my favorite..." repeat that over and over) as easy as saving a file. Instead of using your email client to compose messages, use your word processor.

Nisus Email also has several ways in which you can send emails from within other applications. In fact, any application that supports either Drag and Drop or file saving can be used to email a file or message. All this is done quickly and without leaving the application you are currently working in.

Nisus Email 1.6.1 is a free update for those who have already purchased Nisus Email. New since 1.5.1:
• OSX version now available.
• Better automatic conversion of HTML to plain text.
• SMTP authorization supported, for example: your mac.com email account. (SMTP AUTH extension using the "login" and "plain" SASL mechanisms).
• Incoming emails with foreign character set encodings are automatically displayed in the proper font if possible.

Nisus Email's most noticeable difference is a tiny global window that always stays visible no matter what application you are in. This window is the main interface with Nisus Email. This means that where ever you are, Nisus Email is ready to go.

When you click the global window it will expand to fill your screen. This window displays all of your email contacts. From here you can quickly email anyone via the Quick Message Window: Just click on a contact icon, type your message, and hit send. It's that easy.

Another way Nisus Email makes sending emails easy is DragSend. When you are in any application, such as a word processor or web browser, you can select some text and drag and drop it onto the Nisus Email icon. At that point the Instant Window expands and you can see all of your email contacts. Now you can choose to either send the text immediately or edit it to your liking. When you move the mouse over the top part of a contact icon you will see an indicator that the text is to be sent directly to the contact, with no delay. If you move the mouse over the bottom of a contact you will similarly see an indicator that you will be prompted to edit the text in the Quick Message Window before it is sent. Just move the mouse over one of these options and click to activate your choice.

If you want to send a file (or a folder, or even multiple files) using DragSend, just drag and drop the file(s) onto the Nisus Email icon and click the contact you would like to send the files to. Just as with DragSending text, you can choose to either send or edit the message before it is sent. If you choose to send the file(s) immediately they are sent with a standard message (which you can customize to each icon). This standard message can even include a list of the attached file names.

Nisus Email is setup to constantly check a folder named "Dispatch." As soon as a file is placed within the Dispatch folder Nisus Email will expand the Instant Window and ask you to whom you would like to send the file to. You then click the recipient's icon, and the file is sent.
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Minimum System Requirements

Classic Mac OS
• MacOS 8.5 and up
• PPC 601 or greater
• 12MB RAM
• 10MB free disk space
OSX
• OSX 10.1 and up
• 10MB free disk space

Nisus Email sells for $29.95.

For more information, visit:
http://www.nisus.com/Products/NisusEmail/

For my full review of Nisus Email (version 1.09), visit:
http://www.applelinks.com/mooresviews/nisusemail.shtml

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Opera 8.0 Preview 1
(OS X 10.1 up)

Opera is now an Internet application suite rather than just a Web browser -- the diametrically opposite direction from Mozilla's course with FireFox. Along with browsing, Opera users get a built-in e-mail client, Opera Mail, and a new IRC-compatible chat feature.

Opera Mail offers intelligent emailing with support for instant content search, a contact database, a newsgroup reader, automatic filtering, and now features spellchecker and RSS newsfeeds. Spam filtering is taken a step further in this release by allowing users to teach filters to recognize a class of messages. Classified emails are then automatically directed to a designated work, personal, or special interest folder to tailor email management.

Mac-specific changes in Opera 8
• Huge performance improvements.
• Improved stability.
• Added ability to check spelling in textareas and Opera Mail. As it's based on the system spelling checker, no additional programs are needed.
• Fixed daylight savings time offset problems in Opera Mail.
• Fixed problem where typed URL opened in a background page.
• Added ability to drag files into Opera Mail composition window attachment list.
• Better support for dragging images in OS 10.2 and later.
• Made tooltips slightly transparent.
• Activated auto-proxy detection.
• Improved dynamic UI changes (i.e. menu bar changes).
• Printing page ranges should work now.
• Correctly set default values for the print settings.
• Fixed problem where some menu items stopped working after a period of time.
• Mouse gestures will work again for users without two-button mice.•

Mac System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

Opera for Mac can be used for for free in an ad-sponsored mode, or without the ads through a paid registration. Personally, I find the ads, which appear in a slim banner at the top of the browser window, unobtrusive.

For more information, visit:
http://snapshot.opera.com/mac/m80p1.html

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Outlook Express 5.0.2 and Entourage for Mac
(OS X; Classic PPC)

What can I say about Microsoft's ponderous free combined email (POP3/SMTP/IMAP) / Usenet news client?

It is an understatement to say that I'm not a Microsoft software fan, and I don't use OE. However, OE's a feature-laden beastie, for Microsoft masochists.

Features in OE 5.x include:

Address AutoComplete allows you to type an address in a message, upon which Outlook Express will show names and addresses of contacts in your Address Book that match, whether you type a first name, last name, nickname, or e-mail address.

Smart Attachments encodes attachments using AppleDouble format, which can be read by both Macintosh and Windows operating systems alike. Other encoding formats are also available.

The Improved Preview Pane lets you easily read e-mail and perform common e-mail tasks without opening a separate message window. For example, you can use buttons in the Preview pane to increase the size of text and rewrap text so that it's easier to read a message.

The Info Bar, located at the top of messages you receive, contains information about the message. For example, if you replied to a message, the Info Bar includes the date you replied and provides a link so that you can view your reply. If you performed more than one action on a message, a link appears so that you can view the history of the message.

You can use the Advanced Find dialog box to search for messages by a wide variety of criteria, and by more than one criterion at a time.

In addition to storing email addresses and phone and fax numbers, the Outlook Express 5 Address Book has custom fields you can use to add any information you want, such as birthdays or names of spouses.

Outlook Express 5 can automatically identify potential junk messages. In the Junk Mail Filter dialog box, you can specify how you want to distinguish messages identified as potential junk mail. For example, you can make the messages a different color than your other messages, mark them as read, or run an AppleScript to handle them.

In Outlook Express 5, you can automate certain tasks by creating a schedule that specifies what you want Outlook Express to do and when you want it done. Outlook Express then performs the tasks at the time you specified.

Outlook Express 5's Mailing List Manager helps you manage the messages you receive from the mailing lists you subscribe to. The Mailing List Manager can automatically sort and file these messages, so that you can keep them separate from your personal and business messages.

Outlook Express 5 also supports users who share a computer by storing separate account information and Preference settings for each user. Outlook Express also supports the new multiuser functionality available in Macintosh OS version 9.0 and later.

Additional Features In Outlook Express 5.1
- Drag & drop installation with self-healing lets you quickly install and start Microsoft Outlook Express 5.
- If Microsoft Office is installed on your computer, you can easily check spelling in your messages. You can choose to check spelling as you type messages or all at once when you send them. You can also switch spelling dictionaries without quitting and re-starting Outlook Express.
- The Mail Merge feature in Microsoft Word lets you easily address letters and envelopes to your Outlook Express contacts.
- Improvements to Unicode, character set encodings, and newsgroup encodings makes it easy to send attachments and receive messages composed in other languages.
- Individual signature for each email account.

Minimum System Requirements for Microsoft Outlook Express 5.x
- Macintosh with a PowerPC processor
- Macintosh OS version 8.1 or later
- Open Transport 1.1.1 or higher

OE 5.x stores all messages in one huge database file -- definitely not my cup of tea. There's no way I'm going to entrust my e-mail files to Microsoft software!.

Entourage For Mac

Entourage for Mac is an offshoot of Outlook Express 5.x, retaining the interface, email, and newsgroups capabilities from Outlook Express and adding a personal information manager to keep track of tasks, notes, appointments, contacts, and more.

In other words, even more bloat in an already loaded to the gunwales application.

As I said, if you like that sort of stuff....

Entourage System requirements:
• PowerPC 120MHz or faster
• Mac OS 8.1 or higher. Mac OS 8.5 or higher recommended
• 32 MB of RAM with at least 1 MB of Virtual Memory for Mac OS 8.6 and earlier, 48 MB of RAM with at least 1 MB of Virtual Memory for Mac OS 9.0 and later.

Entourage X sells for $99.

For more information, visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/
or
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/oe/

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POPmail 2.2
(Classic PPC)

A simple email client from the University of Minnesota. POPmail supports POP2, POP3 and IMAP servers.

For more information, visit:
http://www1.umn.edu/adcs/help/email/MacPopmail.html

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POPmail/Lab 1.2
(Classic PPC)

The Lab version of POPmail is a simple POP3 e-mail client optimized for use in computer labs and on kiosks. Here the idea is that roaming users (people on a shared machine in a lab or at a kiosk) should be able to read and compose mail without necessarily removing mail from the POP server and permanently storing it on the computer they are using. Since you can read mail without moving it off the mail server, you do not need to carry a floppy disk to keep a copy of your e-mail. Any mail you have not deleted remains on the mail server. Because POPmail/Lab was designed for computer labs and kiosks, the user interface was kept as simple as possible so that there is minimal training required.

For more information, visit:
http://www1.umn.edu/adcs/help/email/MacPopmail.html

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PowerMail 5.1
(OS X 10.2.8 up)

Built on top of the PowerMail Engine, a robust cross-platform foundation encapsulating 9 years of messaging and directory experience, PowerMail is continuously enhanced with the following objectives:

• Establish a lean, mean and efficient alternative e-mail client for people who care about e-mail
• Acknowledge the importance of our user's data accesibility by offering reliable storage, high-speed indexing and the ability to export to a variety of standard formats
• Design and implement a clean, robust Macintosh user-interface with best-of-class Mac OS X support
• Contribute to the on-going diversity of mail clients on the Mac
• Evolve our code base on a regular basis to meet customer needs
• Excel in supporting multi-lingual, world-wide mail using Unicode standards
• Support advanced Mac OS 9 technologies as well native multi-tasking and memory protection on Mac OS X
• Provide a smooth migration experience to users of Microsoft Entourage, Outlook Express, Claris Emailer and Netscape Communicator 4.x

New in this version:

Safari HTML-rendering integration
• Includes support displaying HTML messages with the latest standards-technology
• HTML messages diplay much faster and withm more reliability

Better at fighting spam:
• Built-in filters enhancement for dealing with spam
• Tight integration with SpamSieve for best efficiency

Improved performance and functionality:
• Now ships as Mac OS X-only Mach-0 binary (requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later)
• Much faster when fetching, filtering and storing messages
• Many more filter actions (including by content)
• Delete messages after "n" days in the Mail trash
• Ability to process incorrectly-decoded messages again
• Long file names and alias support for attachments
• Ability to export attachments along with messages

User interface enhancements:
• Fully customizable toolbars in mail browser, recent mail and message windows, as well as address book and setting dialogs, with extra addable toolbar buttons
• New multiple "Undo" feature on moving messages, change status, mark read/unread, mark as spam/mark as good
• Ability to use System sounds and custom sounds
• New filter interface eases editing of complex rules
• Configurable Address history and Recent mail view
• Supports .sitx decompression if Stuffit Engine is present
• Live resizing of windows
• Better organization of the Scripts menu
• and much more - altogether 35 features and 22 improvements and fixes!

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later

PowerMail sells for $49.00

For more information, visit:
http://www.ctmdev.com/download.html

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QuickMail Pro 3.5.1
(OS X/ OS 9.1 up)

QuickMail, formerly developed by CE Software, has been sold to Outspring Software, a new startup company in California started by Jeff Baudin of Micromat Incorporated, makers of the TechTool line of disk and system utilities ( http://www.micromat.com ). "I've been wanting do something in the email client/server market for sometime", said Baudin. "Since I want Micromat to remain focused on what it does best, which is disk utilities, starting a new company seemed like the most logical step. When it came time to find an existing product to acquire, QuickMail was at the top of my list. QuickMail and CE Software have a long, rich history in this market and their technology and expertise will certainly help put us in the forefront of this particular sector." Baudin will remain President and CEO of Micromat as he takes the reigns of Outspring.

QuickMail includes features like SMTP Authorization support and Mail Manager rules for filtering e-mail and reducing spam. QuickMail also includes support for multiple accounts in one window and a powerful address book that doubles as a contact manager.

New in 3.5.1
• "Report Junk" feature which helps power Spamcaster(TM)
Note: In order to save bandwidth, the client will just delete
reported emails with over 1 MB of attachments.
• Easy online registration.
• New preference to delete attachments folder on quit (to save disk space).
• Improved startup time.
• Improved networker stability when receiving HTML mails.
• Able to enter SMTP-AUTH password with non-alphanumeric characters
• Able to enter "special characters" on Panther (OS X 10.3).
• For SMTP-AUTH, now able to use a different Account and Password
(instead of just the POP Account and Password).
• Improved interoperability with non-QuickMail SMTP servers (like QMail).
• Improved interoperability with anti-virus products (like Norton AntiVirus)
that delete mail messages out from underneath QuickMail.
• Templates listed in the message compose window will show the subjects
instead of "xxx".
• QuickMail Networker will no longer pop up alerts when QuickMail
is not running.
• added key shortcuts for "Mark Deleted" and "Unmark Deleted".
• Finger notification now works on Mac OS X.
• Improved accuracy of quick search of message subjects.
• Improved accuracy of message subject sorting.
• Improved handling of http: and https: urls that contain "@".
• Improved stability.
• Improved addressbook performance, memory footprint and stability.
• Warn and prevent against account names longer than 31 characters.
• If a user's "QuickMail Pro Data" directory gets deleted,
we'll recreate it on startup.
• QuickMail Office users no longer have to activate.
• A non-admin user can now use QuickMail even if it was installed and
registered by an admin user.
• Fixed crashers when the user is missing form files

QuickMail Pro 3.x for Macintosh sells for $34.95.

System Requirements

v3.1 for Mac OS 9.1-10.x
• 32MB of RAM
• 40MB free hard disk space
• TCP/IP network or Dialup PPP

To download QuickMail Pro, visit:
http://www.outspring.com/products/qmp_mac.html

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Zoe 0.6.2 Unique Email Client That Works Through A Web Browser

ZOE is a web based e-mail client with a built in SMTP and POP3 server and Google-like search functionality that lives on your desktop. ZOE is written in java and uses Lucene technology to provided instant searching and threading of your e-mails.

After downloading and decompressing, you can install ZOE's directory wherever you like. To start the program, you are instructed to double click the ZOE.jar file in the application folder which should open your web browser. In order for this to work, either Mozilla or Internet Explorer has to be designated your default Web browser (this is done in Safari's Preferences in OS 10.3).

Alternatively, you can enter http://127.0.0.1:10080/ in a supported browser's URL field.

You may optionally install ZOEService.service under your Home ~/Library/Services directory. This will integrate ZOE with Mac OS X System Services the next time you log in. For the service to work properly, the application itself needs to be running. Also on Mac OS X you can optionally install ZOEMail.mailbundle under your Home ~/Library/Mail/Bundles directory, which will integrate ZOE with Apple's Mail.app next time you restart Mail.app. For the bundle to work properly, the application needs to be running and you may need to enable bundles loading in Mail.app. You ou may further optionally install ZOEPreference.prefPane under your home ~/Library/PreferencePanes directory. This will integrate ZOE with Mac OS X system preferences.

New in this version:
• Tags. Use any email headers to "tag" your messages.
• Built-in HTTPS support.
• Built-in POP3 server STARTTLS support.
• Built-in SMTP server STARTTLS support.

System requirements:
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, or
• Mozilla 1.2 or higher
• Java 1.4 or higher

ZOE is freeware

For more information, visit:
http://ZOE.nu/
or
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=54877
or
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.zoe.general




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Also see Moore's Omnibus Guide To Free POP3 Email Services - 2005 Edition.

Charles W. Moore

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Opera 8 Preview is not available for download for the Mac from their website.

The link to your guide to free email clients doesn’t work.

What would be more interesting would be a review of all email clients that work under OS X (native) and which support HTML mail. That is what interests me and probably most others.

Hi Ben;

I just tried the Opera download link, and the DL initiated fine.

???

Also, the link to the free POP 3 email services article seems to be working too.

The review you suggest would indeed be interesting, but a tremendous undertaking to test all those email clients.

Charles

I was able to download Opera from *your* link. It is not available from *typing in opera.com*, under downloads (although their is the 8 preview linked in for most other OSes). The link at the *bottom of your article* to the email services still doesn’t link to the right page. The link to email services on the *front page* of Applelinks is linked in fine.

Hi Ben;

Ah; right you are. I think I have the links fixed now.

Charles

Opera - the browser - (preview 8 version) does not honor different link hovers as defined in my stylesheets and rendered correctly in Camino .8 nightly and Safari 1.0

See http://benjamin-newton.info/galleries

The top row of links should turn pink when your mouse rolls over them, while the bottom row of links (scroll down) is suppossed to turn blue when highlighted. 

My site looks fine now under Opera 8 - I made a mistake - I didn’t specify the same highlight color for visited link hovers.

Wow!  I am surprised at this article. I’ve always had tremendous respect for Charles but besides a few real review like sections it’s a cut and paste job. Top it off with a scathing commentary on Entourage which I think is terribly unfair and inappropriate. In fact Charles even goes so far as to forget to even list them in at the start of the article.  I have used a few of these apps in my search for the “perfect” email client but have yet to be totally happy as I was in the old Claris Emailer days.  I’ve settled on Entourage because of what Charles sees as bloatware I see as great.  I take classes though online distance learning and the ability in Entourage 2004 (which Charles does not even mention) allows me to relate class projects to emails, class newsgroup postings, projects, documents and papers, To Do, etc.  I can click once and see everything to do with that class.  Sure Entourage isn’t perfect but it’s a better choice for me than the others right now irrespective of Charles’ opinion. Just REALLY disappointed but then it is his site!  wink

Charles, above you wrote “The review you suggest would indeed be interesting, but a tremendous undertaking to test all those email clients.” The danger is when you do a little of both.  Some clients you reviewed and others you just cut and copied their datasheets. While in the case of Entourage you just said it was essentially junk. Maybe it would be better if you really did do just a datasheet dump of all clients available and a follow-up opinion piece of each as you are able.  Just an idea!

Hi Jeffsters;

In the preamble to the article I explicitly stated:

“I have used some of the applications listed, but not all of them by a long shot, so these profiles should not be construed as reviews. Links to full reviews of the applications (in some cases older versions than the current offerings) that I have tested will be provided.”

The intent of the piece is to inform readers of what is available in Mac email clients and provide a medium for them to compare features in one convenient guide.

I have included a few editorial comments where I have a frame of reference, depending on my personal experience or lack of with the respective applications, but the bulk of the content is from the developers’ documentation, which I’m sure is obvious. I’ve included links to actual product reviews of mine where such exist.

The omission of the anchor link to the Microsoft applications was, upon imvestigation, a failure of the AppleScript I use to automate html markup, and completely unintentional. It has now been corrected.

I was also upfront about my disaffection for Microsoft applications, noting in the second sentence of the segment. that “it is an understatement to say that I’m not a Microsoft software fan.” Indeed, I’ve made no secret over the years that I make an effort not to use M$ software on principle if there is any viable alternative, and no M$ apps. are running on my Mac 99%+ of the time.

I did not say that Entourage is “essentially junk.” I said it is bloatware (as is all Microsoft software), a hardly scathing commentary, and a “ loaded to the gunwales application,” which some might infer as a compliment.

If you are happy with the features and performance of Entourage, I’m happy for you, but I wouldn’t personally entrust my email archives to a Microsoft app.

Charles

I personally liked the format for the listing/review whatever you want to call it and find it plenty thorough. I think you could limit it down to the leading free ones with full HTML support. When I used the word review it was not a criticism of your format but I was not thinking my words out carefully enough. It is often hard to find all features (even the major ones) for applications from the developer site because they usually only tell what is new in the current release - this is very useful information no matter how you got it. I also have no love lost for M$ either - I don’t feel I can trust their stuff either. My listing of applications I link to only includes one M$ app (Windows Media Player) and that is just to show it is available and that it is sometimes necessary as they usually only provide 2 types of media player options and sometimes Quicktime is not listed and Real is one of the few companies who makes worse software than M$.

Hi Ben;

Glad you found it useful. The idea for this guide/roundup, which I update every 10/12 months, came from readers asking me what was available in email client alternatives to whatever they were using.

In nearly a decade of using Eudora as my primary email client, tens — perhaps hundreds of thousands of messages — it has never lost any data on me. I’ve heard countless anecdotes of MS Outlook Express archives getting corrupted and the data lost.

I still use MS Word 5.1 occasionally to access the thousand or so old files I have archived in that format (although if I don’t need the formatting I usually just open them with Tex Edit Plus). Internet Explorer installs with OS X, so I have it but maybe start it up two or three times a year. I have a MSN account, but access it with AMSN (non-Microsoft).

I’m not totally against bloatware. Mozilla is bloatware, but it works well. Most Adobe apps. are bloatware, but the latest Reader builds are pretty nice, and I love Photoshop Elements 3.

Charles

I found another use for Opera 8 for web developers besides checking for standards based rendering of web pages and seeing how the site looks without stylesheets. You can make the size of the web page smaller - which is a faster way to make screenshots of deisgns for portfolios
http://benjamin-newton.info/galleries/styles
I also found the links provided with Opera to be a comedic relief.

Charles,

Funny!  I actually do use Entourage as my email archive!  I have every email received or sent going back to my old 1988 Quickmail!  Tens of thousands of them in a 6GB database.  wink As with ANY application backups are VERY important. I’m by no means a Microsoft apologist just someone who has a different opinion, perhaps based upon different experiences, and I hope you welcome the discussion for your readers. Oh BTW, another nice feature of Entourage, for me, is it’s self contained. All I need to do is copy the Microsoft User Folder from my documents folder to another and I’m back in business!  In fact, unlike Apple Mail or the Apple Address Book, it’s cool with the location being elsewhere and an alias in it’s place.  This allows me to move from Mac to Mac or use a school lab or public Mac with my user folder on my iPod.  All I do is plug in my iPod, make an alias of my user folder, copy it to the current user folder and I’m back in business!  When I’m done I just trash the alias and unplug my iPod.  As with anything there are pluses and minuses.  Hey....why don’t you ask your readers to help you each year with this list and pick their favorite to review!  In that way you get to hear all the cool often unknown things that only a power user would know. Heck! I might find something to make me switch!  wink Take care!

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