9591 It's only been a little more than four months since my last Mac POP 3 email client roundup was posted, but it's been an eventful interval with Outspring announcing last week that it is discontinuing the QuickMail email client and server line, which was not a major presence, especially among consumer users, but popular with some institutions and a venerable player.

Another oldie, Musahi, has suspended development and been released as freeware, much as Mulberry and the final version of classic Eudora were a year or two ago. These applications are still worth considering if you're running older hardware.

One the other hand, there is one particularly notable new arrival, at least in public beta form, being Infinity Data Systems' new Odysseus, which will be $39.95 commercial software and aiming to pick up where real Eudora left off, preserving the Eudora experience that some of us can't let go of, while keeping abreast of contemporary and evolving Internet technologies with active development.

As a reader signing in as Mikey observed on an Applelinks comments forum this week:

"I've tried every which way to stay as close as possible to the original Eudora which I've been using for years. Have tried some 'replacements' but nothing has come close and most even wouldn't properly import my Eudora mailboxes of which I have hundreds.

"So I've stuck with Eudora 6.2.4 (Mac OS 10.4.11) and haven't even dared update my system for fear of losing the use of my beloved Eudora. It is as close to perfect as any email application I've ever seen.

"For me, the main thing is that the original Eudora mailbox structure be respected by Odysseus, or at least importable without glitches into Odysseus. This structure is extremely easy to back up every day which is a vital consideration. IT also allows me to use Eudora on different machines at home and office and just transfer the office mailboxes over to home and vice-versa on a USB key. Never seen an email program that allows that with so much ease as the classic Eudora does."

I'm personally on the same page here as Mikey. Eight months into the Leopard era, I'm still hanging in with Eudora 6.2.4 because I simply haven't found anything remotely in its league, the ease of backup and transfer of mailbox archives to other machines (even cross-platform) being one factor, as well as the level of user configurability, customization, and full manual control Eudora classic offers.

However, if you have other tastes, development is still advancing with OS X Leopard Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird ( and its clone, the Open Source "Eudora" 8, which uses the Thunderbird email engine), Opera Mail, PowerMail, and several shareware and Open Source POP 3 clients. Others, like Nisus Email and Magellan, to name two, have evidently suspended development for several years now, but remain available.

I make no claim that this guide is 100 percent exhaustive and comprehensive, but I have tried to find every currently available Mac email application that meets the criterion of being able to function as a full time, general purpose, POP 3 client Apologies in advance for any inadvertent exclusions.

I've used, or at least experimented with, many of the applications included in this roundup, but not all of them by a long shot, so this article should not be misconstrued as a cluster of product reviews, and some programs get more discussion that others by virtue of their market significance and/or my experience with them.

So here's the state of Mac POP 3 email support in 2008.

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Mac POP 3 email clients from B to T

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.

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

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Balzac 1.0b29 Email Client
(OS 10.3 up)

Balzac is an email program that aims to provide a simple view on your mail while allowing fast, sophisticated searches of past correspondence.

Balzac is a new email application for OS X 10.4 and above, which aims to provide a simple view on your mail whilst allowing fast, sophisticated searches of past correspondence. It has been written to utilize all the advanced services available in OS X, from the address book to the built in spell-checker.

The list below is a short summary of the most interesting features of Balzac.

• Dynamic views on your mail (ie 'Smart Folders')
• User defined categories - messages can be in several categories at once
• An inbox which shows you messages from the last few days
• Fast searches on header fields or text content of all messages
• Customize the way you view your mail with HTML templates for list views and message views
• Send custom HTML email using templates
• Supports Growl notifications

Mail Views
On the left hand side of the Balzac window is a list of Mail Views - mail views are analogous to folders in normal mail applications, however they constantly update to show all of your messages. The advantage of views being based on searches is that once you have set up a few views to your taste you won't need to file manually.

Searching
To search the messages within a view, you can type a few words into the 'Search View' box at the top of the Browser window, and hit return to begin the search. Searches use Apple's Search Kit and are very quick, so you won't have to wait for results. You can also search on various parts of the messages - for example their date, or the from and to fields, or the flavour of the message. To do this you prefix your search terms with from:, to: etc. More sophisticated searches are also possible. Changing the search criteria for a view is a simple as clicking the 'Replace View' button.

This beta version is not limited in any way. Please report any problems with it to me at the email address at the bottom of this page. Balzac has not yet been thoroughly tested on Tiger. Support for Spotlight searches will be added in the 1.1 or 1.2 release, when I get round to them.

The latest beta fixes a few small bugs and adds detection of an internet connection after wake from sleep. For changelogs see the Balzac main Web page.

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

System support:
PPC/Intel

$39.00 Shareware

For more information, visit:
http://www.mecanisme.net/software/balzac/

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Correo 0.3 - A New Mail Client For OS X

Correo is a new open-source mail client for Mac OS X. Correo blends technology from two popular Mozilla projects, Camino and Thunderbird, to create a polished native Macintosh application.

The goal of this idea is to create a native cocoa mail client that uses the Mozilla mail/news library and the gecko browser view that Camino uses. Another exciting element to this project is the UI artwork that is being contributed to the project by Jon Hicks of hicksdesign and Jasper Hauser.

There are many planned features for the mail client, including plugin capability (to allow development of extensions such as PDA synchronization), tabbed window interface, address book support, keychain access, and various other to-be-determined features.

The latest release, 0.3 introduces many fixes to the internals of Correo, as listed below:
• Leopard Support
• Enhanced IMAP support - subfolders now load properly!
• Improved Character Encoding Support

For more information, visit:
http://www.nkreeger.com/projects.html
http://nkreeger.com/2007/12/correo-03-released.html

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Entourage for Mac
(OS X; Classic PPC)

Entourage for Mac is an offshoot of the old Outlook Express 5.x, and interestingly Apple's old Claris Emailer (Emailers main developers left after Apple killed the program's development and went to work for Microsoft on Outlook Express), 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.

The current version is Entourage:Mac 2008, released as part of Microsoft Office:Mac 2008 on January 15, 2008 which includes email support, a calendar, an address book, a task list, a note list, and project manager. Entourage 2008 also features a new "My Day" utility, which assists in organizing one's day, and improvements to search speed, "to do" flags, improved junk mail and fishing (phishing) protection, as well as quick navigation via favorites and customizable toolbars.

Entourage supports Mac OS X's Spotlight search engine and AppleScript, but reportedly its use of a monolithic database makes it difficult to back up incrementally with OS X 10.5 Leopard Time Machine. Entourage maintains its own separate Address Book, but allows synchronization of contacts and calendar events through Sync Services.

Entourage includes support for Microsoft Exchange servers, although full parity with Outlook as an Exchange client is still not available in MAc-only Entourage 2008.

Now offered in a box of its own, Entourage X sells for $99.

For more information, visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/entourage2008/default.mspx

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Eudora 6.2.4
(OS X - Version 6.1 still available for Classic users)

Eudora has been my mainstay, workhorse email application since I first drove up the Information Highway on-ramp, and as I noted above I'm still using it as my front-line email program even though development ceased in the fall of 2006, and it is not entirely a happy camper in the OS 10.5 Leopard environment, which has induced some heretofore uncharacteristic instability.

I anticipate that I will eventually be switching to Odysseus once it's ready for production service, but in the meantime I still love Eudora.

Classic Eudora worked great for me until I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" last November, at which point dial-up email performance went south in a big way. I've determined that this is some sort of issue with how Leopard interfaces with the Internet, especially with SMTP servers, over my bog-slow rural dialup connection.

Eudora, as Mikey mentioned above, stores mail in virtual "Folders" (as many as you choose to create) in the mbox file format, which uses plain text formatting that can be opened in a pinch by any text editor or word processor. instead of a central proprietary database as used, for example, by Microsoft Entourage. This makes Eudora archives a snap to back up or transfer between different computers (just drag the Mail Folder or individual mbox files - a tremendous advantage - to the backup medium), has proved extremely robust and trouble-free, and very data-secure since unlike with databases, in the mbox format should disk corruption occur, most of your archives are unlikely to be affected. Mbox files are also delightfully compact.

Eudora is also lightning-fast, has a kick-ass search engine (also blazingly fast), supports very flexible and user-friendly filtering, handles multiple accounts better than any other email client I've tried, and is incredibly configurable and customizable. Like the Mac OS (even more so) Eudora lets you do things your way.

Eudora's forward and backward compatibility is nothing short of amazing. Eudora mailboxes I originally created in Eudora Light 1.5.1 on 680X0 Macs running Macintosh System 6 or 7 still work fine in Eudora 6.2.4 running in OS X 10.5.4.

However, Eudora's days as a contemporary email client are numbered now that development has ceased, although hopefully it will keep working tolerably well in Leopard until Odysseus is ready.

You can find the complete release notes for Eudora 6.2.4 here:
http://www.eudora.com/download/eudora/mac/6.2.4/ReleaseNotes.txt

Eudora 6.2.4 for Mac will continue to be available at least until the Open Source version (see Eudora 8 and "Penelope" sections below) is available in final build.

For more information, visit:
http://www.eudora.com/download/
or
http://www.eudora.com/email/features/mac/index.html

Eudora 8 Beta 3
(OS X 10.2 up)

For those of us who are dedicated Eudora email client users, the announcement that Qualcomm would terminate development of our beloved email client and hand off the name to the Mozilla organization for the purpose of developing an Open Source Eudora email client was cause for both anticipation and apprehension.

In some respects, there was encouraging news. I'm a fan of Open Source software, and Steve Dorner, the original author of Eudora for the Mac, would be a core member of the Eudora development team which goes by the name of Penelope (the wife of Odysseus and daughter of Icarius of Sparta).

The more ominous part was that the new "Eudora" would be based on Mozilla's Thunderbird email client, which I have never been particularly fond of for a whole raft of reasons. I don't like so-called "three-box" email client user interfaces (ditto for OS X Mail, Entourage, and a raft of others), and Thunderbird's SMTP implementation is about the most clumsy and inconvenient I've encountered in any email client.

The first beta of Penelope (Eudora 8.0.0b1) was released in September, 2006, and all doubt was removed upon opening it for the first time and being greeted with what is essentially a Mozilla Thunderbird user interface with some Eudora icons grafted on.

Now, if you like the Thunderbird/OS X Mail/MS Outlook/Entourage type email client interface, this will not be a problem, but as I said above, I don't care for the three-pane motif.

Eudora 8.0 also has an optional 2-pane interface mode, which allegedly causes mailboxes to open in a similar manner to the traditional Mac Eudora client: 2-pane message list and message preview. The list of mailboxes will open in a separate window.

"Mac users might find this interface to be more like Mac Eudora," the developers venture hopefully. Uh . . . no, I don't. It's so clunky that it's just an annoyance.

The real Classic Eudora user interface, which some have declared "antiquated", is one of the things I like best about the original Eudora; it was instrumental to my choosing it over, say, Apple's Claris Emailer back when I came up the Information Highway on-ramp in the mid-90s.

It's going to take a lot more than Thunderbird with Eudora icons and menu category names tacked on to make most consummate Eudora fans willing adopters of Eudora 8 and beyond.
My Eudora Mail Folder, which contains the archived content of my entire email history back to 1997, is still an astonishingly svelte 339 MB, but I expect it would swell substantially in the conversion to Thunderbird-style file and interface conventions. I currently have 21 separate email accounts and 65 separate mailboxes configured in Eudora 6.2.4 (the whole works in a 544 MB Eudora folder). Classic Eudora handles all that gracefully and efficiently. I'm apprehensive that it's not going to transfer well to the way Eudora 8 handles account information and files.

When I first started up the latest Eudora 8.0b3 it insisted on checking and downloading mail from the configured accounts unbidden, which is behavior that I absolutely loathe. Perhaps that can be disabled in the preferences, but I intensely dislike software deciding to do things for me unasked rather than waiting for me to tell it what to do.

I'm also skeptical that Eudora 8's Search/Find function is ever going to hold a candle to classic Eudora's fast, slick, and powerful search engine,.

However, there are a few good things about Eudora 8.0.. On the plus side, as an advocate of plain-text email, one thing I do like is that Eudora 8.0 disables downloading of embedded images in email messages by default, leaving it to the user's discretion to manually bring them down with a convenient button.

Mac system requirements:

Operating Systems:
Mac OS X 10.2.x and later

Minimum Hardware:
Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
128 MB RAM (Recommended: 256 MB RAM or greater)
200 MB hard drive space

Whereas "Eudora" is a branded version of Thunderbird with some extra features added by the Eudora developers, "Penelope" is an extension (also called an "add-on") that can be used with either Eudora or Thunderbird. - see below for more about Penelope.

The latest beta release of Eudora, version 8.0.0b3 includes the Penelope extension version 0.1a22) (See Penelope section below).

For more information, visit:
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Internet-Utilities/Eudora.shtml

GNUMail 1.2pre2 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.

GNUMail was written from scratch. It uses Pantomime as its mail handling framework.

The current version of GNUMail.app is 1.2pre2

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 1.2pre3:
• Universal
• Now makes use of the new mailbox caching code from Pantomime
• New task handling code
• UI improvements for Mac OS X
• Lots of other features, bug fixes, refactorings, speed and usability improvements.

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.3 or higher

GNUMail.app is freeware

For more information, visit here:
http://www.collaboration-world.com/gnumail/

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GyazMail 1.5.8 Cocoa Email Client
[OS X 10.3 up]

GyazMail is an email client for Mac OS X. It is newly 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)
• AppleScript support (iCal e-mail Notifications, iPhoto Mailer Patcher)

New in version 1.5.8

Improvements

• Improved handling of attachments.


• Made IPv6 addressing priority in environments where IPv6 addressing is active.


• Support for Growl 1.1.4.


• Upgraded regular expression library to Oniguruma ver. 5.9.1.


• Other minor improvements.

System requirements:
GyazMail requires Mac OS X 10.3. or later

GyazMail 1.3.9 still available for Mac OS X 10.1 - 10.2

System Support
PPC/ Intel

GyazMail is $18.00 shareware

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

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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, but development seems to have pretty much stalled. The Web page has not been updated since 2004.

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

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Mac OS X Leopard Mail 3
(OS X 10.5 Leopard)

One of the features of 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.

Smart Mailboxes are 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.

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.

New in Leopard Mail 3

Stationery
Choose from more than 30 professionally designed stationery templates that make a virtual keepsake out of every email you send. Templates feature coordinated layouts, fonts, colors, and drag-and-drop photo placement. Stationery uses standard HTML that can be read by popular email programs for Mac and PC.

Forward as Attachment
Forward an email as an attachment instead of an inline message. Select the message or group of messages youd like to forward and choose Forward as Attachment from the Message menu. You can also drag and drop Mail messages into applications like iChat and theyll be sent as attachments.

Duplicate a Smart Mailbox
Make a Smart Mailbox work even harder. Duplicate it if you want to access your Smart Mailbox from more than one Smart Mailbox folder or if you want to create a similar Smart Mailbox with slightly different criteria. Just hold down the Control key, click the Smart Mailbox youd like to duplicate, and select Duplicate.

To-Dos
Create to-do items directly from email messages or notes in Mail. Simply highlight text in an email, then click the To Do button to create a to-do from a message.

RSS
Subscribe to an RSS feed in Mail and youll know the moment an article or blog post hits the wire. Even better, you can choose to have new articles appear in your inbox.

Data Detectors
Act on information in Mail immediately. Mail automatically detects text fragments like appointments and addresses, and lets you choose smart actions with a click: create a new contact, map an address, or create an iCal event.

Improved Search
Find the right email at the top of the search results list, thanks to smarter relevance ranking in Spotlight. And everything you create in Mail to-dos, notes, and, of course, email messages appears in a Spotlight search of your system.

Rich Formatting Options
Add style and layout to your email messages with richer formatting in Mail, such as bulleted and numbered lists, indentations, and background colors.

Photo Browser
Quickly and easily browse your entire iPhoto library to find the photo you need for your message.

Custom Stationery
Create your own stationery templates with graphics and attachments and reuse them to your hearts content.

Simple Mail Setup
Automatically configure new email accounts. Just enter your email address and password. Mail knows the email settings for 30 leading email providers, including Yahoo!, AOL, Gmail, Verizon, AT&T, British Telecom, and Comcast.

Safari RSS Integration
Add news feeds to Mail directly from Safari. If youve already read an article in Safari, it will show up as read in Mail.

MobileMe Sync for Notes
Access notes from anywhere, including your other computers, by syncing them with your MobileMe account.

Notes
Write handy notes that can include graphics, colored text, and attachments. Group notes into folders or create Smart Mailboxes that automatically group them. Your notes folder acts like an email mailbox, so you can retrieve notes from any Mac or PC.

Archive Mailbox
Create an archive of your mailbox to back up important messages or to transfer your mail to another computer.

For more information on Mail 3, visit:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail.html

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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 by Macintosh users. Thanks to its flexibility, customers can customize Mailsmith's powerful editing, filtering, and searching capabilities to suit their particular needs.

Mailsmith provides a depth of functionality that makes it an appropriate tool for both casual email users and power users who receive and store thousands of messages. New users will appreciate its graceful and flexible interface, and sophisticated users will find its range of powerful features indispensable from the outset.

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 BareBones Software's 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

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Mulberry 4.0.8 Email And Calendar Client
(OS 10.3 up)

Mulberry is an Internet mail and calendar client supporting the IMAP (IMAP4rev1, IMAP4, and IMAP2bis) protocol for accessing mail messages on a server, and the standard SMTP protocol for sending messages. It also does many things with MIME parts to handle mixed text and different types of attachments, and supports POP3 email as well. Mulberry is back under new ownership and is now available for free.

Please note that there is no official support for Mulberry now - community support via mailing lists and other such resources will be used instead.

Mulberry started off life as a software project that was really meant to help the author learn more about the internet and internet protocols used for email. However, it became much more than that and garnered support from a small (in internet terms) group of users and institutions many of whom relied on the product as their primary email tool.

Whilst it started as only an IMAP client and only on Mac OS, it has grown to cover not only other email protocols, but also calendaring and scheduling and is available on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux systems.

Adherence to standards is a key belief on the part of the developers, and active participation in the Internet Engineering Task Force and the standards process is an important aspect.

Ultimately the failure of the original company (for a whole host of reasons) was really a reflection of the fact that Mulberry had failed to grow a market share that could sustain the company in a market where free clients (of varying quality) are readily available.

Now Mulberry itself is free, though its future is still cloudy in terms of whether development will advance or not...

New in version 4.0.8:
• Add option to automatically adjust timezones to new US rules as of March 2007.
• Update built-in timezones to new rules for March 2007.

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

System support:
PPC

Free

For more information, visit:
http://www.mulberrymail.com/index.shtml

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Musashi 3.5
(OS X; Classic PPC; Classic 68k)

The Musashi 3.5 email client is now freeware.

Musash supports multi-user, multi-user mail box sharing, drag & drop operation, and Japanese character sets on the appropriate OS versions. Background send and receive and searching and filtering are also supported.

Musashi supports basic email client functions as well as many more useful and unique features including message searching and message filtering.

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 a 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.

New in this version:
Version 3.5 is now freeware. It appears that Musashi development has ceased, and the project is now in "archive" status on Sonosoft's web site, but is at least still available for download as freeware.

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1 or later.

System Support:
PPC/Intel

Free

For more information, visit:
http://www.sonosoft.com/

Download:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8108/musashi

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Netscape 7.2
[OS X 10.1 up]

Basically of interest only to folks still running old Macs with the Classic Mac OS, 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.

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.

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.

Get Map from within an address card serves up immediate results from MapQuest so getting directions is fast and convenient from your Address Book.

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.

Download the installer at:
http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/archive.jsp

or

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)

Nisus Email 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 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.

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

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Odysseus 1.0b1 Eudora Replacement Email Client Public Beta

The only all-new addition to this year's roundup is the much-anticipated (at least by classic Eudora fans) Odysseus email client which is designed to be a real replacement for the classic Eudora application we know and love is out in beta, looking great, and it works, although it's not quite quite ready for prime time yet, but for those of us who want a Eudora successor to be more than just a Eudora-themed clone of Thunderbird, Odysseus cometh.

The latest public beta build is version 1.0b1, which was just posted to the IDS Website as I am filing this article, so I haven't had an opportunity to try it out yet. Details of the new release below.

IDS still emphasizes that this is a beta, and they don't recommend using this build for anything other than testing. because it is not ready at this stage of development to be used in a mission-critical environment.

IDS says Odysseus will share the same advantages as Eudora, and is designed to have the same features, options, and capabilities that users have come to rely on. Compared to Eudora, Odysseus has the advantage of being under active development by a software company claiming dedication to making Odysseus the best email client in existence. This includes improving on areas where Eudora had started to lag behind, such as integration with the individual operating systems that it runs on."

Odysseus is not based on the Eudora code base, since, as IDS notes, as the license holder for that code, Qualcomm was not in a position to simply hand that code over to anyone else which is why even Mozilla's Thunderbird/Eudora 8 effort isn't based on the original code base, but is instead an attempt to modify a copy of the Thunderbird code base to mimic Eudora. On the other hand, IDS says that if there is a particular feature you like in classic Eudora, it will probably be present in Odysseus 1.1, which will be focused on replicating the Eudora experience that fans know and love, with more refinement and advanced features to be added in subsequent versions as development progresses.

Features Currently Operational in Version 1.0b1 are:
- Receiving Email
- Sending Email
- Downloading Attachments
- Multiple Accounts
- Built-in Address Book
- Transferring Email Across Mailboxes
- Replying, Forwarding, Redirecting
- Basic Email Filtering (set default mailbox for each account if desired)
- Basic Attachment Filtering (can define specific Attachment folder per email account)
- HTML Rendering (via the File Menu. A future build will allow this to be enabled as On or Off by default)
- Importing Eudora Email

New in Odysseus 1.0 Beta 1:

New:
• Standard Filters
• Junk Filtering
• Searching
• Spell Checking (Inline)
• Return Receipts
• IMAP Support (Not 100%... although very close - see below) **
• Mailbox Menu
• Transfer Menu
• Ability To Change Message Status
• Ability To Change Message Priority
• Ability To Change Message Account

Improved:
• Improved HTML Handling (Fixed an issue that would cause some HTML messages to crash Odysseus)
• Odysseus Now Forwards and Redirects All Message Parts (Plain Text, HTML, and Attachments)
• Improved UTF-8 Support (both Sending and Receiving)
• Classic Windows Remember Position and Size (For each mailbox that is opened)
• Improved Message Status Notifications
• Improved Handling of Signatures
• Prevent Loading of Junk Messages
• Improved Handling of Multiple Composition Windows
• Improved Handling of Duplicate Messages
• Fixed 1/31/00 Date Bug
• Sent Message Now Display Proper Status
• Fixed HTML Resize Content Issue
• Approximately 3 Dozen Minor Bug Fixes

Left to doi:
Accorting to IDS, there are a couple of features left to implement... although in comparison to whats been do so far, theyre relatively minor features. These include Timed Sending and Receiving, Printing, Delete Messages From Server options, etc. In addition to those features, some existing features, such as Preferences and Importing, need to be improved and expanded. Aside from that however, the majority of the remaining time will be spent fixing bugs, improving performance, and generally enhancing the application as much as possible.

Installing Odysseus was simplicity itself. I just decompressed the downloaded Zip file and there it was, ready to go. The registration screen was standard and straightforward, and the program can be used in demo mode for 21 days.

The open mailbox and toolbar should make Eudora veterans feel right at home, but IMHO the tool bar icons are more attractive-looking than any ever used with Eudora itself.

The Compose Mail window is likewise comfortably Eudora-esque.

In summary, in the context of its early-days status it's an understatement to say I'm delighted with Odysseus so far, and looking forward to testing future builds and of course the final release.

Odysseus will be commercial software (as Qualcomm's Eudora was) and not open source, and will sell for $39.95, about the same price point as classic Eudora. The program is being developed with support for Mac OS X and Windows, with Linux compatibility being looked at for the future. Version upgrade prices, anticipated roughly annually, are projected to be$19.95, and if a full version number upgrade occurs in under a year's time, it will be free for users of the previous version.

The Odysseus 1.0b1 public beta can be downloaded here:
http://www.infinitydatasystems.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=419

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Opera Mail 9.5.1
(OS X 10.1 up)

Opera is 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 rendering engine has been completely rewritten for Opera 9.5, which contains more than a year's worth of speed, standards and performance improvements.

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.

Mail improvements in version 9.5 of Opera Mail include enhanced stability and performance to Opera's integrated email client, a new mail backend and new IMAP support. Opera Mail is also much faster than in previous versions of Opera. Opera Mail users of previous versions should be aware that they will need to install this version on top of any existing Opera version to use this version for mail. Opera will then re-index all your email, something which can take several minutes if you have thousands of emails. (Note: this is the sort of thing I've never had to do with Eudora through a gazillion version upgrades over a dozen years).

OPera Mail features:

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

New in version 9.5.1:

• Feeds now show the first time when you subscribe.
• Corrected a stability issue that could occur when clicking the drop-down to switch views.
• Adjusted thread expanding in Mail when receiving new messages.
• Corrected a problem where multiple views (access points) show for the same account.

Mac System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher

Opera for Mac is freeware.

For more information and to download, visit:
http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/

To Download:
http://www.opera.com/download/

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Penelope

As noted above, Quallcomm has terminated development of the venerable Eudora email client, and will hand off future development for the brand to Mozilla.org, which will develop a new, Open Source Eudora based on its Thunderbird application.

By moving Eudora to an open source product, QUALCOMM can exit the Eudora business gracefully while still supporting Eudora users and they contend - advancing the Eudora email client at a faster pace than before, through the power of the open source development community.

"The 'Penelope' project's intention is to join the Eudora user experience with the Mozilla platform. We intend to produce a version of Eudora that is open source and based on Mozilla and Thunderbird. It's *not* our intention to compete with Thunderbird; rather, we want to complement it.

"We are committed to both preserving the Eudora user experience and to maintaining maximum compatibility, for both developers and users, with Thunderbird. It is our goal to build a single development community around Thunderbird and Eudora, so that both mailers advance faster than they previously have."

Current status of Penelope is:

The team is currently working on an extension that remaps keys and provides some other UI functionality. We will submit that as soon as we are comfortable with it.

Note that if you are a current Eudora user who wishes to give Thunderbird a try, the Thunderbird importers for Eudora are a bit rough, especially for MacOS users. It may be worth waiting to try to import your mail until we make some improvements to the importers.

For more information, visit:
http://www.eudora.com/faq/
and
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope

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PowerMail 5.6.4
[OS X 10.2.8 or later]

ctm development's powermail 5.6.4 is a pop and imap email client that offers filters, integration with spamsieve and foxtrot personal search, multithreading, on-the-fly indexing, an extensible search interface, filtering based on content, and more.

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 the developers stated 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 orderly 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 FoxTrot 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 criteria.

What's new in PowerMail 5.6.5

Fixes and enhancements

+ Includes latest search accelerations and optimizations inherited from
recent work on companion application FoxTrot Professional Search

+ Several cosmetic clean-ups across the application

+ Disk image contains latest version of SpamSieve (2.7)

+ [5.6.4] Restored compatibility with Mac OS 10.3.9

+ [5.6.3] Low-level rebuild was broken after the 5.6.2 porting to XCode 3.0 - fixed

+ [5.6.3] Restored the command-key shortcut for hiding the application

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later

System support:
PPC/Intel

49 Euro Demoware

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

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SeaMonkey 1.1.11 Internet Suite
(OS X 10.2 or later)

SeaMonkey is one of the three main browsers developed and distributed through the Open Source Mozilla organization - a suite browser based on the same Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, combining a Web-browser with a built-in email and newsgroup client, an IRC chat client, and an HTML authoring/editing module - and is essentially an up-to-date version of the old Mozilla Web application.

SeaMonkey is big (64.4 MB for the latest Universal Binary builds, vs 32.4 MB for Opera 9, wwhichalso includes an email client). It also is showing its age, doesn't support OS X Services, but SeaMonkey is a smooth, quick, and reliable performer.

Aside from the much more attractive SeaMonkey logo, this browser ootherwiselooks almost exactly like Mozilla 1.7 in terms of appearance, as well as including a Netscape Communicator style email client, a WYSIWYG web page composer and an IRC chat application, plus mozilla.org's DOM inspector and JavaScript debugger tools, SeaMonkey 1.1.1 is a powerful, comprehensive, and secure internet software package.

SeaMonkey Email Features - Mail & Newsgroups

Junk mail controls helps you take back control of your e-mail from spammers. SeaMonkey's adaptive junk mail control gets smarter with use and is personalized to the e-mail that you receive. The Junk Mail Controls feature can evaluate your incoming messages and identify possible junk (or unsolicited) messages. The feature uses the Bayesian classification method, which requires that you first train Mozilla by showing it a bunch of mail that is junk, and a bunch of mail that is not. Then, you let it auto-classify new mail for you. If Mozilla makes any mistakes, you can correct them.

Manage your mail with customizable Labels and Mail Views. Color code your e-mail to help you prioritize. Sort your mail with views to help you through your e-mail much faster.

Multiple Accounts support helps you manage all your mail through one interface.

SeaMonkey Messenger includes Enterprise ready features such as S/MIME, return receipts, Address Books, LDAP support, and digital signing.

System requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.2 or later
* PowerPC processor (266 MHz or faster recommended)
* 64 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
* 100 MB of free hard disk space (significantly less space is required if you reduce the cache size)

System support:
PPC/Intel

Free

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

Download:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/

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Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.16
[OS X]

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 a redesign of the mail module in the old Mozilla suite browser, which in turn was derived from the old Netscape Communicator Messenger module.

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 Fixed in Thunderbird 2.0.0.16

• MFSA 2008-34 Remote code execution by overflowing CSS reference counter


• MFSA 2008-33 Crash and remote code execution in block reflow


• MFSA 2008-31 Peer-trusted certs can use alt names to spoof


• MFSA 2008-29 Faulty .properties file results in uninitialized memory being used


• MFSA 2008-26 Buffer length checks in MIME processing


• MFSA 2008-25 Arbitrary code execution in mozIJSSubScriptLoader.loadSubScript()


• MFSA 2008-24 Chrome script loading from fastload file


• MFSA 2008-21 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.15)

Thunderbird features include:

Thunderbird 2 features many new enhancements to help you better manage your unruly inbox, and stay informed. Thunderbird 2 scales to the most sophisticated organizational needs while making it easy to find what you need.

Advanced Folder Views
Thunderbird 2 offers a variety of ways for you to organize and display your folders, whether by favorites, recently viewed or folders containing unread messages. As always, you can also set up RSS and newsgroup folders to stay on top of news and your interests. Thunderbird 2 also allows you to maximize your message view pane by opting for a folder drop down menu instead of the traditional sidebar.

Message Tagging
Thunderbird 2 allows you to tag messages with descriptors such as To Do or Done or even create your own tags that are specific to your needs. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email.

Message History Navigation
Thunderbird 2 offers message history navigation that allows you to click forward and back much like in your Web browser. You can now quickly toggle between messages and folder views.

Improved Search
Thunderbird 2 features a find as you type pane that speeds up searches within displayed messages. Thunderbird also offers quick search, which starts showing search results as soon as you start typing in search terms.

Saved Searches
Do you find yourself searching for the same subject or message content over and over? Thunderbird 2 saves you time by allowing you to store this search as a folder. Rerunning the search is just a matter of clicking on the saved search folder in the folder pane.

Stay Informed
Thunderbird 2 has been updated to provide more informative and relevant message alerts containing sender, subject and message text for newly arrived messages. Folders provide a pop up summarizing new messages in that folder.

Easy Access to Popular Web Mail Services
Thunderbird 2 makes it even easier to integrate and use various Web mail accounts from one inbox. Gmail and .Mac users can access their accounts in Thunderbird by simply providing their user names and passwords.

Secure and Protect Your Mail
Mozilla has bolstered Thunderbirds acclaimed security and privacy measures to ensure that your communications and identity remain safe. Its like having your own security guard online.

Phishing Protection
Thunderbird protects you from email scams which try to trick users into handing over personal and confidential information by indicating when a message is a potential phishing attempt. As a second line of defense, Thunderbird warns you when you click on a link which appears to be taking you to a different Web site than the one indicated by the URL in the message.

Robust Privacy
Thunderbird 2 offers improved support for user privacy and remote image protection. To ensure a users privacy, Thunderbird 2 automatically blocks remote images in email messages.

Cutting Out the Junk
Mozilla has updated Thunderbirds popular junk mail folders to stay ahead of spam. Each email you receive passes through Thunderbird's leading-edge junk mail filters. Each time you mark messages as spam, Thunderbird learns and improves its filtering so you can spend more time reading the mail that matters. Thunderbird can also use your mail provider's spam filters to keep junk mail out of your inbox.

Open Source, More Secure
At the heart of Thunderbird is an open source development process driven by thousands of passionate, experienced developers and security experts spread all over the world.

Automated Update
Thunderbirds update system checks to see if youre running the latest version, and notifies you when a security update is available. These security updates are small (usually 200KB - 700KB), giving you only what you need and making the security update quick to download and install.

Get Your Mail, Your Way
Thunderbird allows you to customize your email to suit your specific needs whether its how you search and find messages or listening to music right out of your inbox.

Outfit Your Inbox
Thunderbird users can increase Thunderbirds functionality and appearance using hundreds of add-ons.

Message Templates
Thunderbird 2 allows you to easily set up message templates to save you time especially if you have to send the same mail message repeatedly.

The new Add-ons Manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes, making it even easier for you to customize Thunderbird 2. Install, uninstall, enable and disable your add-ons in a single place.

System requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.2.x and later

Minimum Hardware

• Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
• 128 MB RAM (Recommended: 256 MB RAM or greater)
• 200 MB hard drive space

Mozilla Thunderbird is freeware

For more information, visit:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/


Charles W. Moore

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