Moore’s Omnibus Guide To Mac POP 3 Email Clients and Utilities - 2008 Edition
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So here's the state of Mac POP 3 email clients in 2008.
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".
Balzac 1.0 b29 Email Client
(OS 10.3 up)
Balzac is a relatively 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
The latest betas move over to a new mailbox format in preparation for adding support for Spotlight searches, and also add a lot of other features, including Ruby in outgoing messages.
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.
To see the messages in a mail view, you click on that view, just as you would a folder in another mail program - the messages matched by the view will then be displayed in the main browser window. Views which are inside other views (ie child views) search only the messages from the view above, so as you move down a hierarchy of views you will see fewer and fewer messages. You can see child views by clicking the arrow beside a view which has children. You can drag views around to reorder them, and double click them to change the title, just as you would expect.
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.
New in version 1.0 beta build 29:
• Fixed bug in whitelister dealing with numeric HTML attributes
• Removed spurious status messages in Leopard
• Worked around date parsing bug in Leopard causing inbox to display as empty
Known Problems:
• Balzac is not compatible with TypeIt4Me (an Input Method for Panther and Tiger)
• When sending via mail.google.com, you must use port 465 and turn on SSL (NOT port 587)
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
System support:
PPC/Intel
$39.00 Shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.mecanisme.net/software/balzac/
Correo 0.3 - A New Mail Client For OS X
Correo is another 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.
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. Correo is to Thunderbird what the Cocoa-themed Camino browser is Mozilla's Firefox - a more Mac-like alternative.
Correo is currently in the early stages of development, and the latest release for the application is the 0.1 release.
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
Features of Correo 0.2:
- Keychain support, passwords are stored in the Mac OS X Keychain
- Mac OS X Address Book integration.
- Single window mode, open messages in a separate window.
- Attachment support, adds the ability to save and add attachments to messages.
- Enhanced message list support for IMAP accounts.
- Collapsable message header and attachment view.
- Create multiple mail accounts (POP and IMAP)
- Reply, Forward, and write new messages (via SMTP)
- Ability to setup interface for 2 column split view or 3 column view
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
System support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://nkreeger.com/correo/
Entourage 2008 For Mac
(OS X 10.4.9 up)
Entourage for Mac is a descendent of the old Outlook Express 5.x, retaining the general interface conventions, email, and newsgroups capabilities from Outlook Express, adding a personal information manager to keep track of tasks, notes, appointments, contacts, and more.
It is an understatement to say that I'm not a Microsoft software fan, but some people like Entourage. Entourage stores all messages in one huge database file - definitely not my cup of tea, too inflexible and a corrupted file (MS email databases have a reputation for being fragile and corruption-prone) means you could lose the whole enchilada if the included Database Utility fails to repair and rebuild it successfully, unlike email programs that store archives in separate, discrete mailboxes that can be opened in a pinch with a text editor. The single file motif also causes problems with Time Machine since every time the database changes (even a single email added or deleted, Time Machine interprets that as a signal to make an entirely new copy, which can be several GB in size, and backs the whole thing up every hour.
There's a new Entourage for Mac in Microsoft Office 2008, with a fresh, more Mac-like interface and a number of new features, such as a Spotlight search field in the main toolbar which replaces the former Advanced Search dialog. Entourage can save searches to the Folder List or the Favorites Bar, and Spotlight integration reportedly makes searching your message archives much faster than it was with Entourage 2004. Entourage 2008's junk mail filter has been updated as well and there's a new anti-phishing feature that blocks a blacklist of file attachments.
Entourage also has a Calendar module, supports integration with MS Exchange, and includes address book, notes, tasks, and project center modules, a new My Day companion application that lets you view your Entourage data without the main program running, including your upcoming calendar events and To Do items.
Unfortunately, in order to get Entourage you have to buy the whole MS Office suite which will set you back about $130.94 for the Home and School version if you buy it online.
Entourage System requirements:
• Mac OS X version 10.4.9 (Tiger) or a later version of Mac OS
For more information, visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/entourage2008/default.mspx
or
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.mspx
Eudora 6.2.4
(OS X - Version 6.1 still available for Classic users)
Unfortunately, Quallcomm, which owned and developed Eudora since 1991, decided last year that an email client no longer fits their business plan, and development of the classic Eudora was terminated, with version 6.2.4 the final and ultimate Mac iteration. Qualcomm handed the Eudora name off to an an Open Source product code-named "Penelope" based on Mozilla.org's Thunderbird email client. The Open Source product, wich is currently in public beta (see separate section in this roundup) will be free to all customers.
As a longtime Eudora fan and enthusiast who has never been terribly smitten with Thunderbird, I was not enchanted with this news. I'm trying to keep an open mind, and hope that the Qualcomm press release's affirmation about "while retaining Eudora’s uniquely rich feature set and productivity enhancements" has substance, but I haven't seen much evidence of it in the Eudora 8 betas, in which Eudora's classic interface conventions have been abandoned in favor of a "three-box" (or optional "two-box") UI.
I'm continuing to use Eudora 6.2.4 as my main email client for now. It works great on my Pismo PowerBooks running OS X 10.4.11, but not so hot under OS X 10.5.2 Leopard on my workhorse PowerBook G4. However, the writing is on the wall, so to speak, and at some point in the future it can be safely anticipated that a Mac OS version upgrade will break Eudora (the OS X version of which is a Carbon port of the old Mac OS Classic Eudora which dates back nearly to the dawn of the public Internet), or some new Web standard will not be supported by the old application.
So for now I'm continuing to include classic Eudora in the Guide To Mac Email Clients and Utilities for 2008, since it remains available for download, and is still an excellent solution if you;re using OS 10.4 Tiger or an older version of the Mac OS. However, if you're running Leopard, an/or are not already a Eudora user, I would suggest adopting another email client that's still under active development. I just wish I could find one tha I like remotely as well.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.0 or higher
• Eudora 6.1 is still available for download and sale for Mac Classic users.
Eudora 6.2.4 for Mac will continue to be available until a final Open Source version (see "Penelope" section below) is available.
Qualcomm has posted a compatibility note for the no-longer-being-developed Eudora email client and OS X 10.5.2 Leopard. Note that this applies only to Eudora 6, and not "Eudora" 8.
In order for Macintosh Eudora to work well under OS X 10.5.x 'Leopard', you need to turn off the use of specific sounds in Eudora. These are the sounds Eudora plays when you get new mail or Eudora needs your attention, or are played by Filters. The sounds that are problematic are the ones that contain 'Eudora' in their name as they were created using a sound synthesizer that Leopard does not support. To disable or change the sounds used in Eudora, do the following:
Turn off or change the 'New Mail' and "Attention" sounds:
• Open Eudora->Preferences and select the 'Getting Attention' panel
• In the 'Sounds' section, for both 'New mail sound' and 'Attention sound', select a sound OTHER than one that has 'Eudora' in its name (ie. NOT 'Eudora Attention', 'Eudora New Mail' nor 'Eudora Short Warning')
• Click OK to the close the Preferences
Turn off sounds triggered by filters:
• Open Window->Filters
• Look through all your filters for filters that have a 'Play Sound' action.
• Select a sound that does NOT have 'Eudora' in its name, or disable sounds all together by selecting 'None' from the action popup menu.
I've done this, and it does seem to improve Eudora performance in Leopard somewhat.
For more information, visit:
http://www.eudora.com/download/
Eudora 8.0.0b3 (Penelope/Open Source Version)
As noted above, Quallcomm has terminated development of the venerable Eudora email client, and handed off future development for the brand to Mozilla.org, which is developing 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.
That remains to be seen. Thunderbird, is a better than OK conventional email client, but in my humble opinion it has never come close to Eudora in power and user experience, so I'm hoping the Penelope project can follow through successfully on its mission statement:
"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."
The most recent beta release of Eudora, version 8.0.0b3 (which includes the Penelope extension version 0.1a22) is now available for download. Use the links below to download.
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 is used in Eudora and can also be used with Thunderbird. The Eudora installer includes the corresponding version of Penelope along with it so there is no need to install Penelope if you are installing Eudora. Most features in Penelope can be accessed when used with Thunderbird, but there are a few that require Eudora in order to work correctly and it's not something that gets tested.
Sometimes in documentation there is a need to differentiate the older versions of Eudora made by Qualcomm from current Thunderbird-based versions of Eudora. This will normally be done by labeling the older versions of Eudora as "original Eudora" or "Classic Eudora".
CHANGES IN 8.0.0b3
• Includes Penelope version 0.1a22.
See:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope_Extensionsfor Penelope version notes.
Using Thunderbird 3.0a1pre trunk code as of 2007/10/19:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=593971
NEW FEATURES
- A Linux version of Eudora is now available!
- If you select a minimum amount of text before replying to a message, the
reply will only quote the selected text.
- Mac OS X address book integration turned on by default.
IMPORTING
- Importing mailboxes from Classic Mac Eudora is greatly improved.
- When importing filters from Classic Eudora, filter actions which are not
currently supported in Thunderbird are preserved so that when they are
supported in future versions of Thunderbird they will be available to the
user.
- When importing Eudora settings, more settings are mapped to
corresponding Mozilla settings. All Eudora settings are stored for future
interpretation without re-importing.
- Fixed bug where Windows Eudora importing would not prompt user for
correct location of data when data is not found.
- Fixed logic reversal bug that caused both Mac and Windows Eudora
address book importing to fail.
MISCELLANEOUS
- Fixes for a variety of problems with unified who column. Local
mailboxes now compare against all POP accounts. Cross-folder views
(e.g., saved searches) now correctly determine the folder for the messages.
The search dialog results panel now follows the useWhoColumn pref.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359270>
The main web page for Eudora/Penelope can be found at :
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope
For more information, visit:
http://www.eudora.com/faq/
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 1.2pre3, which was released February 5, 2007, so development of this Open Source emaiol client is not proceeding very rapidly.
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.
New in version 1.2pre2:
• Tons of IMAP, POP3 and SMTP improvements
• TLS support for all protocols
• New icons from Jesse Ross
• Fully ported the application to Microsoft Windows (using GNUstep on MinGW)
• New "Fast Find" capabilities
• Vastly improved the Console window
• Lots of other features, bug fixes, major 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/
GyazMail 1.5.7 Cocoa Email Client
[OS X 10.3 up]
Now supports IMAP; Universal Binary
GyazMail is a shareware 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 1.5.7:
Improvements
• Improved compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
• Support for Growl 1.1.2.
• Other minor improvements.
Bugs Fixed
• Fixed error generated when moving or deleting mail in a Gmail IMAP account.
• Fixed bug that deleted attached files below the signature when the "Remove the Usenet signature when quoting all" option in the Reply pane of the Compose preferences was checked.
• Other minor bugs squashed.
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
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. As near as I can tell, this program 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
Mac OS X Leopard Mail 3
(OS X)
One of the cool features in Mac OS X is a powerful email client built right into the operating system. Personally, I've never cottoned to OS X Mail, but Classic Eudora, if it appeals to you, tends to ruins you for other email applicaitons. Mail is a pretty good email client.
The latest version of Mail in OS X 10.5 Leopard has a number of new features to make writing and managing email more fun and creative, and to help you get organized.
• Personalize messages with Stationery
You can add a personal touch to messages by applying stationery templates. In anything from invitations to birthday greetings, the templates offer professionally designed layouts, fonts, and colors. Use the new Photo Browser to find photos in your iPhoto library and add them to your messages.
• Jot Notes
You can create handy notes to help you capture and organize your thoughts and ideas in one central location, Mail. You can select text in a note to easily create an action item, or send a note to a friend or colleague. Notes can include graphics, formatted text, and attachments.
• Track To DOS
You can select content in messages and notes that you want to track, such as action items or requests, and quickly organize them in to-do lists. You can include a due date, set an alarm, or assign priorities. Your to-do items are automatically added to your iCal calendars.
• Stay informed with RSS
You can subscribe to RSS feeds and have news articles delivered to your Inbox. Use Smart Mailboxes to organize incoming news articles according to your interests.
• Streamline tasks
Mail provides other features to help you work more efficiently:
Set up new Mail accounts in one step. Enter your current email address and password, and Mail will configure other settings for you.
Place your mouse pointer over data in messages and use Data Detectors to transform an email address into a new contact in your address book, a street address into mapped directions, or a date and time into an iCal event.
Use improved Spotlight searching to find the exact message, note, to-do item, or attachment you're looking for.
Make messages easier to read with new and richer formatting, such as bulleted and numbered lists, indentations, and background colors.
Use the new Archive command to easily back up your mailboxes.
Returning features include integrated support for OS X's Spotlight search technology, you can 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.
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 on Mail 3, visit:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/mail.html
Mailsmith 2.1
[OSX 10.2 or later required; Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later recommended]
Mailsmith is an extra-strength and very expensive email client designed for Macintosh users by BareBones software, developers of the formidable BBEdit professional-grade text editor and its excellent TextWrangler freeware companion program. 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/
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.
Since November, 2007, Mulberry has been Open Source, Mulberry is Open Source. The full code for Mulberry (Mac OS X, Windows and Linux) is now available as open source under an Apache 2 License. See the Website for details.
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.
New in version 4.0.7:
• Now built with Xcode and open-powerplant as a Universal binary (PPC and Intel native).
• BCC header will now appear in message pane summary headers if present (ticket #157).
• Fixed bug with task scrolling (ticket #6).
• Fixed bug with corrupt IMSP address entries preventing replies/forwards (ticket #155).
• Fixed bug where copying to a mailbox with only 'a' rights would result in an error after a successful copy (ticket #134).
• Fixed bug with click and drag of cursor above top line in text field (ticket #139).
• Fixed bug with ordering of first/last names in addresses from OS X address book (ticket #123).
• Fixed bug with parsing calendar lists from some CalDAV servers (ticket #133).
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
System support:
PPC
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.mulberrymail.com/index.shtml
Netscape 7.2
[OS X 10.1 up]
A blast from the past, Netscape 7.2 includes a Web browser (Navigator); HTML authoring environment (Composer); a POP 3 email client (Mail) as well as a newsreader and instant messenger, and is a potential solution for Mac OS Classic users who want a suite application that still performs reasonably well. Netscape development of version 7.x ceased laong ago and has now been discontinued for all OS types and versions as of March 31, 2008, but archived versions of Netscape are still available for download at the Web address below.
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.
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.
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
Nisus Email 1.6.1
(OS X; Classic PPC)
One of the Mac email clients that I still use every day on my OS 10.4 machines 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.
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!
Unfortunately, Nisus Email hasn't been updated for years, and is now definitely showing its age, and doesn't support the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) required by Gmail for POP 3 support.
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 is like any standard email client in that it receives and sends email, 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.
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
Odysseus (As Yet Vaporware)
Infinity Data Systems a full-service software and web development firm that in addition to custom software development also occasionally develops software to meet perceived needs in the market that are currently going unfulfilled, has announced that it is developing a real successor to the Classic Eudora email client that presumably will follow more closely the traditional inderface conventions than the Mozilla Thunderbird-based Eudora project is. Their Website states:
"Odysseus is the code name for the Eudora successor that Infinity Data Systems is working. We have always felt that Eudora was a best-of-breed email application for both platforms, Mac OS X and Windows. Easily one of the oldest email applications, it still offers features either not found in competing applications or, if found, not implemented as elegantly."
The name is a cute touch. Even if your Greek mythology is a bit rusty, you probably have heard of Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and the protagonist of Homer's Iliad saga. Mozilla.org's Eudora Open Source project is named "Penelope", and Penelope daughter of Icarius of Sparta, was Odysseus' wife who waited over twenty years for him to return home to her from his Odyssey.
I hope that we won't have to wait 20 years for a decent Eudora successor. The Infinity Data Systems Odysseus mission statement continues:
"Needless to say, we were saddened by Qualcomm's abandonment of Eudora. And while we have the utmost respect for the Thunderbird/Eudora team, like many Eudora users, we don't believe that modifying Thunderbird to mimic Eudora offers Eudora users the features, functionality, or experience they've come to love and depend on. Its our belief that only an application written from the ground up can adequately succeed a program as great as Eudora."
I couldn't agree more. The original Eudora was a work of genius, and it - not another, IMHO inferior, email program must be the inspiration of a worthy successor.
Infinity Data Systems originally said that an initial Odysseus beta will be released by the end of the year, with the final release projected for toward the end of Q1 2008. 2007 is pretty much gone, and no beta announcement yet, but it's not unusual in software development for things to run behind projections. They pledge that "the final application will offer full backward compatibility with Eudora, utilize existing Eudora mailboxes and settings, and offer the features and functionality that Eudora users are accustomed to, while at the same time improving on those areas where Eudora lagged behind, such as HTML rendering and OS integration."
Music to this Eudora aficionado's ears.
If you're interested in keeping up with the development of Odysseus, you can either keep checking the Odysseus Web page, which, will be updated frequently, or sign up to receive email updates by sending an email to
For more information, visit:
http://www.infinitydatasystems.com/products/odysseus/index.html
Opera 9.26
(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, full-featured POP/IMAP email 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 POP/IMAP E-mail client is a combined e-mail program, news reader, mailing list organizer and RSS/Atom newsfeed reader.
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
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/
PowerMail 5.5.2
[OS X 10.3.9 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 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.
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 PowerMail 5.5.2 Univeral Binary:
- New search feature and performance increase
- It is now possible to search words ending with a given pattern (by putting a "*" wildcard at the beginning of the string, i.e: *pattern ) or
- words containing a pattern (by adding "*" wildcards around the pattern i.e.: *pattern*
- Includes a new version of the FoxTrot core search engine, with greatly accelerated wildcard (partial words terminated with a * star character) searches, including multiple partial words
- Leopard compatibility
- PowerMail is now compatible with developer builds of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on Intel Macs, and uses the latest version of SSL contained in the OS (also Leopard-compatible on PowerPC)
- "Switch user environment" did not work correctly with developer builds of Mac OS X 10.5
- Fixes and enhancements
- Improved mouse wheel support in HTML messages
- Mail filters with the condition "includes at least one of the words" could behave unexpectedly when the search string starts with a punctuation character
- PowerMail should no longer crash when Mac OS X's spell checker is broken
- When a connexion error occured, PowerMail was sometimes creating an empty, partial message
- the [other field...] [does not contain] filter criterion was erroneously evaluated to false when the specified field is not present in the message
- Please also note that simultaneous to PowerMail 5.5.2, we are releasing version 1.2 of our FoxTrot Personal Search advanced file find-by-content application, with several enhancements as well.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
System support:
PPC/Intel
$59 Demoware
For more information, visit:
http://www.ctmdev.com/powermail/
QuickMail Client 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.
Full 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/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=50
SeaMonkey 1.9 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 as Firefox and Camino, 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 and Netscape Communicator Web applications.
SeaMonkey is big (64.4 MB for the latest Universal Binary builds, vs 32.4 MB for Opera 9, which also 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 otherwiise looks 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 1.9 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
Fixed in SeaMonkey 1.1.9:
•
• XUL popup spoofing variant (cross-tab popups)
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• Java socket connection to any local port via LiveConnect
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• Privacy issue with SSL Client Authentication
•
• HTTP Referrer spoofing with malformed URLs
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• Crashes with evidence of memory corruption
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• JavaScript privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution
•
For more on recent changes, and bug reports, visit:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey1.1.9/changelog
SeaMonkey 1.1.9 is available for free download from the open source project's website at:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org
Download:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.12
[OS X]
Thunderbird has been around for some time now, but in case you're not familiar, it is a full featured standalone email client based on the design 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 2.0.0.12:
http://en.www.mozilla.com/en/thunderbird/2.0.0.12/releasenotes/
New in Thunderbird 2
• Message Tags: Create your own tags for organizing email. Messages can be assigned any number of tags. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email.
• Visual Theme: Thunderbird 2's theme and user interface have been updated to improve usability and maximize screen real estate.
• Session History Navigation: Back and Forward buttons allow navigation through message history.
• Advanced Folder Views: Customize the folder pane to show favorite, unread or recent folders.
• Easy Access to Popular Web Mail Services: Gmail and .Mac users can access their accounts in Thunderbird by simply providing their user names and passwords.
• Improved Support For Extensions: Extensions can now add custom columns to the message list pane in addition to storing custom message data in the mail database.
• Improved New Mail Notification Alerts: New mail alerts include information such as the subject, sender and message preview text.
• Folder Summary Popups: Mouse over a folder with new messages to see a summary of the new messages in that folder.
• Saved Search Folder Performance: Search results for saved search folders are now cached, improving folder loading performance.
• Find As You Type: Finds and highlights message text as you type.
• Improved Filing Tools: Recent folder menu items for moving and copying messages to recently used folders. Move / Copy again functionality.
• Updates to the Extension System: The extension system has been updated to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions.
• New Windows installer: Based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, the new Windows installer resolves many long-standing issues.
• Windows Vista Support: Many enhancements and fixes for Windows Vista.
Thunderbird has 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 classic 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:
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
Mozilla Thunderbird is freeware.
For more information, visit:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
Charles W. Moore
