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Email Clients O-Z
Email Clients O-Z
Outlook Express 5.0.2 and Entourage for Mac Outlook Express 5.0.2 and Entourage for Mac (OS X; Classic PPC) What can I say about Microsoft's ponderous free combined email (POP3/SMTP/IMAP) / Usenet news client? It is an understatement to say that I'm not a Microsoft software fan, and I don't use OE. However, OE's a feature-laden beastie, for Microsoft masochists.
Features in OE 5.x include:
Address AutoComplete allows you to type an address in a message, upon which Outlook Express will show names and addresses of contacts in your Address Book that match, whether you type a first name, last name, nickname, or e-mail address. Smart Attachments encodes attachments using AppleDouble format, which can be read by both Macintosh and Windows operating systems alike. Other encoding formats are also available. The Improved Preview Pane lets you easily read e-mail and perform common e-mail tasks without opening a separate message window. For example, you can use buttons in the Preview pane to increase the size of text and rewrap text so that it's easier to read a message. One Key Read helps you to save time by minimizing the number of key strokes and mouse actions required to read messages. Pressing the spacebar will scroll through a message. At the end of the message, press the spacebar again to move to the next unread message. The Info Bar, located at the top of messages you receive, contains information about the message. For example, if you replied to a message, the Info Bar includes the date you replied and provides a link so that you can view your reply. If you performed more than one action on a message, a link appears so that you can view the history of the message. You can use the Advanced Find dialog box to search for messages by a wide variety of criteria, and by more than one criterion at a time. In addition to storing email addresses and phone and fax numbers, the Outlook Express 5 Address Book has custom fields you can use to add any information you want, such as birthdays or names of spouses. The Address Book is also tightly integrated with messaging; for example, when you address a message, you automatically access addresses in your Address Book. And when you receive a message from someone, you can easily add the sender to your Address Book. If you regularly receive junk e-mail, Outlook Express 5 can automatically identify potential junk messages. In the Junk Mail Filter dialog box, you can specify how you want to distinguish messages identified as potential junk mail. For example, you can make the messages a different color than your other messages, mark them as read, or run an AppleScript to handle them. In Outlook Express 5, you can automate certain tasks by creating a schedule that specifies what you want Outlook Express to do and when you want it done. Outlook Express then performs the tasks at the time you specified. Outlook Express 5's Mailing List Manager helps you manage the messages you receive from the mailing lists you subscribe to. The Mailing List Manager can automatically sort and file these messages, so that you can keep them separate from your personal and business messages. Outlook Express 5 also supports users who share a computer by storing separate account information and Preference settings for each user. Outlook Express also supports the new multiuser functionality available in Macintosh OS version 9.0 and later.
Additional Features In Outlook Express 5.1
Additional Features in version 5.0.2:
Minimum System Requirements for Microsoft Outlook Express 5.x
OE 5.x stores all messages in one huge database file -- definitely not my cup of tea. There's no way I'm going to entrust my e-mail files to Microsoft software!. Entourage For Mac Entourage for Mac is an offshoot of Outlook Express 5.x, retaining the interface, email, and newsgroups capabilities from Outlook Express and adding a personal information manager to keep track of tasks, notes, appointments, contacts, and more. In other words, even more bloat in an already loaded to the gunwales application. As I said, if you like that sort of stuff....
Entourage System requirements:
Running or moving to Mac OS X? You need Microsoft Entourage X, built specifically for Mac OS X. Entourage X seamlessly combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and tasks into one powerful program. Now offered in a box of its own, Entourage X sells for $99.
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(Classic PPC) A simple email client from the University of Minnesota. POPmail supports POP2, POP3 and IMAP servers.
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(Classic PPC) The Lab version of POPmail is a simple POP3 e-mail client optimized for use in computer labs and on kiosks. Here the idea is that roaming users (people on a shared machine in a lab or at a kiosk) should be able to read and compose mail without necessarily removing mail from the POP server and permanently storing it on the computer they are using. Since you can read mail without moving it off the mail server, you do not need to carry a floppy disk to keep a copy of your e-mail. Any mail you have not deleted remains on the mail server. Because POPmail/Lab was designed for computer labs and kiosks, the user interface was kept as simple as possible so that there is minimal training required.
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(OS X; Classic PPC) PowerMail 4 is the latest release of CTM Development's Macintosh e-mail client, focused specifically on features requested by our users. Built on top of the PowerMail Engine", a robust cross-platform foundation encapsulating 9 years of messaging and directory experience, PowerMail is continuously enhanced with the following objectives:
• Establish a lean, mean and efficient alternative e-mail client for people who care about e-mail
Beyond the classic PowerMail feature set (high-speed find-by-content using Sherlock" search technology, multiple accounts) PowerMail 4 includes user-experience and feature enhancements in the following areas:
Performance:
Ease of use:
System Requirements
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(OS X; Classic PPC) QuickMail Pro is a reliable, affordable POP3 e-mail client for Macintosh, Mac OS X, and Windows platforms, including XP. QuickMail Pro 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 Pro includes features like SMTP Authorization support and Mail Manager rules for filtering e-mail and reducing SPAM. QuickMail Pro also includes support for multiple accounts in one window and a powerful address book that doubles as a contact manager. For more of what QuickMail can do, check out the Data sheet.
New in version 3.1
QuickMail Pro 3.x for Macintosh sells for $34.95. System Requirements
v3.0 for Mac OS 8.6-10.x
v3.1 for Mac OS 9.1-10.x
(OS X; Classic PPC; Classic 68k) SweetMail is a simple email client that owes considerable inspiration to the classic Eudora Light, but with many more features. For example, SweetMail supports multiple email accounts and has a wide variety of interface customization preference options. Another big advantage SweetMail shares with Eudora Light 3.1.3 and earlier is that it supports 68k Macs as well as Power PC and OS X. At least that is a big advantage if you have a 68k Mac. SweetMail's user interface is very nice in its default mode, but you can also customize it to your heart's content using SweetMail's extensive user preferences. And like Eudora Light, there is no program interface or toolbar cluttering up your desktop unless you open a window -- just menu selections on the menu bar -- a motif I prefer. SweetMail can import archives from other e-mail programs, but has no ability to export archives in, say, Eudora format, as PowerMail does for instance. The potential to reverse-migrate would probably encourage more people to try out the program. The developer of SweetMail is S. Ichise, a freeware/shareware author living in Kanagawa, Japan. He has written code for 24 years, and was the author of CalendarMenu 3.21 for the Macintosh 'in the old days.' When I asked S. Ichise what inspired him to develop this program, he replied: "It is a simple answer, there was no emailer I wanted to use. I think it is better to not use modal-dialogs, and to use thread processing. We must be careful about user-inoperable-time for smooth interface." "I liked Eudora-1.8.x in the old days," he added, "so, basically SweetMail's operation is similar to it." To a considerable extent he has succeeded in his quest. In terms of "feel," I find SweetMail very much like Eudora Light 3.1.3. It is also small and fast, has a decent search engine, a customizable interface with an array of configuration options, and most important, continues Eudora's minimalist user interface that pretty much disappears except for the menu bar when there are no mailboxes or messages open.
Some SweetMail features include:
The SweetMail Preferences let you do a lot with color. For instance:
System requirements:
SweetMail is $28.00 shareware.
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SweetMail is $18.00 shareware.
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You can read my review of SweetMail (ver. 1.9.3) here:
Zoe 0.3.6 Unique Email Client That Works Through A Web Browser
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