3519 It's been a year and a half since my last Mac POP 3 email client roundup article was posted, and it continues to be one of my most often referenced archives 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.

Mac POP 3 email clients from E to Z

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.

Missing this year is Mulberry, the IMAP/POP3 email client from CyrusSoft, which terminated development last year.

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

Eudora 6.2.3
(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: Improved functionality to synchronize and access email from multiple computers and locations.

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

SpamWatch: (Paid mode only) SpamWatch is a powerful tool in Eudora 6 to help you stop Spam (Paid mode users only).

WebWords: WebWords combines email and web searching.

Content Concentrator: Content Concentrator is 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.

Improved Outlook importer: (Windows) Easily imports mail, addresses and attachments from Outlook to Eudora, making switching to Eudora easier than ever.

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.

IMAP mailbox sync: Eudora allows users to specify which IMAP mailboxes should be synced on mail checks. A menu item provides a toggle so that users can "Sync on Mail Check" or not.

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: Search through thousands of messages in seconds, using multiple search criteria.

Enhanced Filters: Thousands of combinations available for sorting and organizing your mail box contents.

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: Assign colors to sort your mail either manually or automatically using filters.

Customize your Toolbar: Arrange the toolbar layout, add or remove function keys.

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: Monitor task activity progress when sending or checking mail.

Personalities: You can create various names from which you send and receive email with the Personalities settings. As an example, you might use one personality (email address name) for friends and family and another personality for business correspondence.

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.

User choice: Choose Paid, Sponsored or Light mode version of Eudora.

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

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.

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

GNUMail 1.2.0pre1 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 1.2

Version 1.2 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;

New in version 1.2
* Integration with the new Pantomime code ;
* Thread Arcs for email thread visualization ;
* GNUMail now also uses NSToolbar under GNUstep ;
* New Console window (and will be updated again soon) which now allow operations to be interrupted at any time ;
* Improved the PGP, Emoticon and Face bundles ;
* Lots of other features, bug fixes, major refactorings, speed and usability improvements.

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/

GyazMail 1.3.8 Cocoa Email Client
[OS X 10.1 up]

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)
• AppleScript support (iCal e-mail Notifications, iPhoto Mailer Patcher)

New in this release (v1.3.8)

Improvements

• GyazMail is now a Universal Binary application.
• Upgraded regular expression library to Oniguruma ver. 4.0.2.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed bug which could cause a crash when deleting accounts.
• Fixed bug which could prevent proper searching with some regular expressions.
• Fixed some Spanish localizations.
• Other minor bugs squashed.

New in v1.3.7

Improvements

• Changed handling to ignore the x-unix-mode parameter in the Content-Type header and the uuencode permission parameter to plug a security hole.
• Upgraded regular expression library to Oniguruma ver. 4.0.1.

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed rare bug which, if message transmission was cancelled, could cause crashes when quitting GyazMail, or unintended deletion of messages.
• Fixed bug which could cause a crash when forwarding mail if "Show remote images in HTML messages" (Display preferences) is selected.
• Fixed some Italian localizations.
• Other minor bugs squashed.

System requirements:
GyazMail requires Mac OS X 10.1 or later (10.3.9 or later recommended).
Address Book synchronization features require OS X 10.2 or later.

System Support
PPC

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/

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 9.0 or newer is required, 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 $35.00 shareware

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

Mac OS X Tiger Mail 2
(OS X)

One of the cool features in MAC OS X is a powerful email client built right into the operating system, now featuring Spotlight search technology. Find email instantly and accurately, organize messages using Smart Folders and share, save or view emailed images easily.

Search across even the largest mailbox with pinpoint accuracy. Mail displays the most relevant emails at the top of the search results and lets you change your search on the fly. Search selected mailboxes or across all mailboxes. Search across the entire message or content or just the from, to or subject fields.

Welcome to the world of Smart Mailboxes. These Spotlight-driven mailboxes automatically fill themselves with email based on simple criteria set by you. Need to find every email you sent to your Aunt Helen in the last two weeks? Set up a Smart Mailbox and your entire correspondence appears inside and stays updated as you and Helen continue your email discussion.

Smart Mailboxes stay up-to-date automatically as you send and receive mail. Use the default Smart Mailboxes provided by Mail (Unread, Flagged, Today, Last 7 Days) or create your own using single or multiple rules. With Smart Mailboxes, your email can be in many places at once, even if you can't.

With one click, Mail resizes your outgoing photos to small, medium, large or actual size and tells you how big an email will be based on the photo size you select. No more returned messages, lots more happy recipients. Mail even creates Image size windowslideshows of photos in an email, complete with effects. Choose photos from a virtual index sheet, resize photos to fit your display, then enjoy the show. Fully photo-friendly, Mail makes it a snap to share, manage and view your pictures.

With Mail Parental Controls, protecting your children from unwelcome email is quick and easy. Create an email safe list for your kids' Mail accounts and ensure they only exchange email with people they know. Emails from people not on your safe list are automatically routed to your account for approval before they are sent to your kids.

Mail, iSync and .Mac work together seamlessly to keep your email messages and settings in perfect sync across multiple Macs. Add a new account at work and your home computer will display it. Change a rule on your desktop and it applies to email on your laptop. Add a contact from Mail to your Address Book and access it on the road via .Mac webmail. Even Smart Mailboxes stay synced between Macs, so you can take the power of Spotlight with you wherever you roam.

Widely lauded for its ability to identify and dispatch spam, Mail packs an improved filtering engine, offers better accuracy, includes more filtering options and provides more powerful protection against spammers.

Customized Compose Options
Visually customize which email elements such as To:, CC: and Bcc: � should appear when you compose a new message.

HTML Message Composition
Mail uses the Safari engine to format newly composed email using HTML.

iCal Invitations in Mail
Automatically send iCal invitations to Mail.

Mail and iPhoto Integration
Add emailed photos to iPhoto with a single click.

Mail Connection Doctor
Diagnose and fix networking issues directly from Mail with this powerful troubleshooting tool.

Mail Controls for Parents
Create an email-safe list for kids.

Mail Server Quota Management
Display information about the amount of mail server storage used/available on compatible email servers.

Message Priorities
View and set email message priorities and use these priorities for mail rules and

New Mail User Interface
Enjoy a more attractive layout for mailboxes, searches and more.

NTLM v2 Authentication
Enjoy greater compatibility with a wide range of Microsoft Exchange email server configurations.

Per-account signatures
Use different email signatures for each mail account � like something fun for a personal account vs. serious for a business account.

Photo Controls in Mail
Resize photos before they are sent � Mail can tell you when a picture is too large for your ISP.

Slideshow in Mail
View a full-screen slideshow of emailed pictures with a single click.

Spell Check Options
Spell check your email before you send, as you type or never.

Spotlight

Smart Mailboxes

Organize your email to match the way you work using Smart Mailboxes that automatically fill themselves with email based on your criteria.

Spotlight Search in Mail
Search across even the largest mailbox or multiple mailboxes with pinpoint accuracy using the power of Spotlight.


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

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 2.1 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.

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: $99.00

For more information, visit:
http://www.barebones.com/products/mailsmith/index.shtml

Mozilla 1.7.13
(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 1.6 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 version 1.7.13:

Under the Hood
• Stability fixes.
• Several security fixes.
• Other stability and security fixes

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2.x and later
• G3 266 MHz or better
• 64 MB RAM
• 72 MB hard drive space

• There is no native support (i.e. Universal Binary) for users of Macintosh with Intel processors. Users may run Mozilla 1.7.13 under Rosetta or get the Seamonkey 1.0.2 Universal Binary.

Mozilla is freeware

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

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5
[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.

Mozilla.org has released version 1.5 of the Thunderbird email client. Thunderbird has been around for some time now, but in case you're not familiar, it is a full featured stand-alone email client based on the edesign of the mail module in the Mozilla suite browser, which in turn was derived from the old Netscape Communicator Messenger module.

The Thunderbird developers' mission objective is to produce a cross platform standalone mail application using the XUL user interface language. The intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firebird (or another standalone browser) as their primary browser and wants a good, solid email client to go with it.

Thunderbird incorporates the three-pane mode familiar to users of OS X Mail and Outlook Express, et al., It's fast, reasonably easy to configure, and will be familiarly intuitive to use for folks who like three-pane email clients. It's also freeware, and one of the most sophisticated free email clients.

New in Thunderbird 1.5:
• Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Thunderbird may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
• Sort address autocomplete results by how often you send e-mail to each recipient.
• Spell check as you type.
• Saved Search Folders can now search across multiple accounts.
• Built in phishing detector to help protect users against email scams.
• Podcasting and other RSS Improvements.
• Deleting attachments from messages.
• Integration with server side spam filtering.
• Reply and forward actions for message filters.
• Kerberos Authentication.
• Auto save as draft for mail composition.
• Message aging.
• Filters for Global Inbox.
• Improvements to product usability including redesigned options interface, and SMTP server management.
• Many security enhancements.

New in Thunderbird 1.5.0.4:
• Universal Binary Support for Mac OS X which provides native support for Macintosh with Intel Core processors. Thunderbird supports the enhancements to performance introduced by the new MacIntel chipsets.
• Improvements to product stability.
• Several security fixes - details here:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#thunderbird1.5.0.4

Thunderbird features include:

Junk Mail filtering
Thunderbird provides effective tools for detecting junk mail, that analyze your email 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.

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

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

Versatility
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.

Expandability
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.

Thunderbird is a good e-mail client with an impressive features set, but it puzzles me why a one trick pony email application has to be an 11 MB download and a bloated 34 MB when expanded -- not including user profile folders and such? I mean, Opera, which incorporates a full-featured Web browser, an email client and chat client/newseader into one application, is just 4.5 MB to download and 9.5 MB expanded. ThunderBird has fewer features than Eudora, but is about six times as large.

Thunderbird will not allow a virus or worm to execute automatically. You can see what attachments have been sent to you without a virus being able to execute, and you would have to save a file to your system and deliberately run it before it could cause any harm.

Commendably, Thunderbird's mail files are in the standard plain text "mbox" format, which many mail programs can use or import. Some proprietary mail programs have a function to import from Eudora, which also uses the "mbox" format; this function should read your Mozilla mail files properly.

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

Mozilla Thunderbird is freeware

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

Portable Thunderbird 1.5.0.4r2.1
(OS X)

Portable Thunderbird OS X is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client packaged as portable application so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you.

From the experience of Portable Firefox OS X, here is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client packaged so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 33 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your email, address book and account settings with you.

1. Drag the "Portable Thunderbird OS X" folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 33 MB of free space. 2. Clicking "OPEN Portable Thunderbird OS X" will launch in background an AppleScript that will open Thunderbird from your portable device, wait a while before Thunderbird start.

If you wish to use your email, address book and account settings you already have on your computer, copy the content of the folder "/Users//Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/********.default/"
to
"/Portable Thunderbird OS X/app/profile/"
folder.

New in version 1.5.0.4r2.1:
• Thunderbird updated to 1.5.0.4
• Universal Binary.

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or later

System support:
PPC

Free

For more information, visit:
http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps/thunderbird/

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

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

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 is like any standard email client in that it manages your emails, but the similarities end there. The 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.

There are two possible ways of using the Dispatch folder, depending on your preference settings. Under one option, text content of the file (where the format is known) is extracted, automatically edited (by adding extra returns for paragraph breaks where needed) and sent as the normal email message. Under an alternative option, the text is extracted as explained but the fully formatted file is automatically attached to the message as an attachment.

To use the Dispatch folder from within Nisus Writer (or indeed any word processor) just prepare the email, then save it in the Dispatch folder. You immediately see the Nisus Email Instant Window, click the icon of the recipient, and the message is sent. Preferences also allow you to accumulate your files in the Dispatch folder before sending and begin sending only when you activate the Nisus Email window by clicking it.

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/NisusEmail/

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

Mini-Review of Nisus Email 1.6 here:
http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2001/12/20011210125758.shtml

Opera 9.0
(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's built-in POP/IMAP E-mail client is integrated with the Opera browser, and lets you send, receive, sort and search your e-mails quicker and easier than with conventional e-mail programs.

Opera's built-in POP/IMAP E-mail client is a combined e-mail program, news reader, mailing list organizer and RSS/Atom newsfeed reader.

Easy Switch

* Imports all your existing e-mails and contacts
* Supports multiple e-mail accounts, using both POP and IMAP

Sort and Search

* Full-text indexing of all your e-mails to help you find the one you're looking for
* Search for sender, date, subject or content and Opera Mail will find it for you in seconds
* Combine any variables to narrow your search
* Click a contact's name in the contact list to display all correspondence with that contact
* One-click access to threaded display all recent correspondence
* Filter e-mails to display only those related to a certain topic or project
* Label your incoming e-mails as important, to do, call back, funny etc

Attachments

* Attachments are sorted by file type for easy retrieval (images, videos, music etc.)

Spam Filter

* Filters out junk mail, and you can even train it based on your preferences

Newsgroups and RSS/Atom Newsfeeds

* Receive and manage incoming news with the same tools available for e-mails

Changes Since Opera 8.54 - E-mail and news:

• Improved IMAP backend.
• IMAP messages are removed from local store when removing account.
• New customizable mail header display.
• "View all message headers" replaced by "View all headers and message" in message context.
• Added smiley menu to chat and mail toolbars.
• Added warning when sending mail without a subject.
• Up/down arrows no longer select next/previous messages in e-mail and news views when the message view has focus.
• Fix for format=flowed sending incorrectly formatted content.
• Fix for sending mail with iso-2022-jp encoding.

Mac-specific changes
• Universal binary.
• Notification for e-mail, news, feeds, and chat added to dock icon.
• Opera can be controlled with an Intel Mac remote in full-screen mode.
• Added new startup switches: "Opera -ScreenWidth 800 -ScreenHeight 600" will change the screen resolution to 800 by 600 until Opera quits, then it is reset to the previous values.
• Control Opera in full-screen mode via remote in Intel Macs.
• Mail storage moved to ~/Application Support/Opera/Mail/.
• Improved default fonts.
• Opera will now use the most recent version of Java available on the system.
• Initial support for AppleScript.
• Support for IPv6.

Easy Switch

* Imports all your existing e-mails and contacts
* Supports multiple e-mail accounts, using both POP and IMAP

Sort and Search

* Full-text indexing of all your e-mails to help you find the one you're looking for
* Search for sender, date, subject or content and Opera Mail will find it for you in seconds
* Combine any variables to narrow your search
* Click a contact's name in the contact list to display all correspondence with that contact
* One-click access to threaded display all recent correspondence
* Filter e-mails to display only those related to a certain topic or project
* Label your incoming e-mails as important, to do, call back, funny etc

Attachments

* Attachments are sorted by file type for easy retrieval (images, videos, music etc.)

Spam Filter

* Filters out junk mail, and you can even train it based on your preferences

Newsgroups and RSS/Atom Newsfeeds

* Receive and manage incoming news with the same tools available for e-mails

Mac System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

Opera for Mac is freeware.

For more information about Opera, visit:
http://www.opera.com/products/

To Download:
http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/

Outlook Express 5.0.2 and Entourage 2004 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
• Smart Attachments
• One Key Read
• An Info Bar
• Advanced Find
• Address Book Enhancements
• Account Setup Assistant (mixed blessing)
• Easy Importing of filed from other email clients
• Junk Mail Filter
• Schedules
• Mailing List Manager
• Multiuser Support
• IMAP Support

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.

One Key Read helps you to save time by minimizing the number of key strokes and mouse actions required to read messages. Pressing the spacebar will scroll through a message. At the end of the message, press the spacebar again to move to the next unread 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. The Address Book is also tightly integrated with messaging; for example, when you address a message, you automatically access addresses in your Address Book. And when you receive a message from someone, you can easily add the sender to your Address Book.

If you regularly receive junk e-mail, 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.

System Requirements for Microsoft Outlook Express 5.x
- Macintosh with a PowerPC processor
- Macintosh OS version 8.1 or later
- 6 MB of available RAM with Virtual Memory on (7 MB recommended)
- 15 MB of available hard disk space for Outlook Express
- 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. However, some people like it. Check out this review by Mac360.com's Alexis Kayhill.
http://www.mac360.com/index.php/mac360/more/best_of_mac_the_best_email_program_on_earth/

But even Alexis, who declares Entourage to be "the best overall email software on the market," concedes that "it is expensive. It forces you to buy the whole Office suite. That means US$399 for the standard version and US$239 for an upgrade. That's not cheap for email!" Uh... no it isn't

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.
• CD-ROM drive
• Display capable of 256 grays or colors at 640x480 resolution. Display capable of thousands or millions of colors and resolutions of 800x600 or higher recommended.
• 160 MB hard disk space. Will vary depending on how much data you store and the options you choose to install. You may require more or less hard disk space.

Running or moving to Mac OS X? You need Microsoft Entourage X, built specifically for Mac OS X. Entourage X seamlessly combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and tasks into one powerful program. Now offered in a box of its own, Entourage X sells for $99.

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

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

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

PowerMail 5.2.3
[OS X 10.2.8 or later]

With 63% of all messaging traffic now identified as spam (source: BrightMail 3/2004), how can dealing with e-mail become pleasurable again ?

Since the announcement of PowerMail 1.0 in August 1995, bringing a distinctive experience to Macintosh users has been our primary focus.

With the release of PowerMail 5, defeating spam takes center stage:

With enhanced filtering mechanisms, a Spam filter assistant and intimate integration of SpamSieve for those who need it, you're about to rediscover e-mail as uncluttered as it used to be.

New conditions and actions allow finer filtering of mailing-list traffic and help you organize your centers of interest in an ordery fashion; and while AppleScripts could previously be triggered by filters, scripts can now also extend the set of built-in filter conditions as well.

Benchmarking has shown PowerMail to search up to 7 times faster as Apple's Mail.app, thanks to our exclusive FoxTrotâ„¢ engine.

Indexing itself typically takes less that 1/20th of a second per received message, and mail databases of up to 2048 megabytes can instantly and precisely mined using a variety of search criteriae.

While major upgrades of intensely-used software sometimes place a product's identity at risk, PowerMail 5 carefully balances innovation with continuity, preserving its original trademark of speed and reliability.

New in version 5.2.3:
• Reliability enhancements for all users: Rolled back the 5.2.2-introduced feature of indexing HTML parts, as an occasional crash in Mac OS X code we were calling caused instability for our users - leading to unfortunate and lengthy rebuilds of sort indices. The reliability of 5.2.3 is therefore greater than that of version 5.2.1.
• 10.4.4 compatibility on Intel and PowerPC: As the first deliverables in our long march towards a full Universal version of PowerMail, we are have qualified PowerMail 5.2.3 on Mac OS 10.4.4 on both Intel and PowerPC; the measured performance on an Intel dual-core iMac is actually perceivably faster than on the equivalent G5 iMac. Throughout the migration process, we will continue to ensure smooth and efficient operation on Intel-based Macs.
• Performance with first phase of Universal-binary deliverables: Our Intel priorities are focused on the areas promising the most acceleration potential first. To that effect, PowerMail 5.2.3 includes a Universal binary version of the PowerMail Spotlight plugin. This release is also coordinated with the 1.0.6 Universal version of FoxTrot Personal Search optimized for indexing PowerMail messages using both Intel cores cooperatively. Finally, the PowerMail 5.2.3 disk image includes the first Universal binary version of SpamSieve (2.4.1).

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later.

$49 Demoware

For more information, visit:
http://www.ctmdev.com/powermail5.html

QuickMail Pro 3.5.3
(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 is a POP3 email client for Mac OS X and Mac OS 9. QuickMail is perfect for home, office or school; anywhere you need a powerful e-mail client to communicate. Plus, you'll have all of your e-mail available whether booting into Mac OS X or Mac OS 9. If you are looking for an e-mail client that's easy to set up, has an intuitive interface and plenty of powerful features -- look no more.

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 3.5.3
* Switched to the MySpell spell checker engine and updated the dictionaries included with QuickMail. For instructions on how to install dictionaries for other languages, see this.
* Fixed the bug where reported junk messages would reappear in the Sent folder when you rebuilt the folder index.
* Fixed the bug where certain messages can "clog" the networker, stopping the downloading of messages.
* Fixed the bug where the networker can crash with large text/html parts.
* Fixed the bug where if AUTH CRAM-MD5 fails, and the SMTP server supports AUTH LOGIN we'll use AUTH LOGIN.
* Improved handling of bad Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers.

Fyll release notes here:
http://download.outspring.com/qmclientmac/QuickMail353ReadMe.txt

QuickMail Pro 3.x for Macintosh sells for $34.95 (30 day demo)

System Requirements
• Mac OS 9.1 (or greater) or 10.1 (or greater)
• 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

Zoe 0.6.3 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.

There hasn't been any new development of Zoe for over a year, but it's still available.

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:
- New MS Word text decoder.
- New PDF text decoder.
- New RTF text decoder.

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/



Charles W. Moore

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