Magellan 1.9

Magellan e-mail client software provides a quick and simple way to communicate in different languages, making it possible to send and receive e-mail in any language available on the Internet.

Unicode and MultiScript formats are supported.

Magellan allows users to:
• send and receive multilingual e-mail. Any languages will correctly be sent and received
• send and receive e-mail message containing any plural languages
• Not only unicode but newly created MultiScript encoding is adopted
• read messages in "View." View is an epoch-making management way of e-mail messages, different from folder or filter system
• create Text clip which replaced "signature" and is more flexible and free
• download large size message or attachment file later, skip e-mail
• The function is for faster mail checking!
• avoid complexity of "Preferences" or "Settings"
• fastest performance of all e-mail client software
• work under less memory than other e-mail software and 750KB of application size

Specifications of Magellan:
Multi-account at most 16 accounts E-mailaddress Pop-up supported
Attachment encoding AppleSingle, AppleDouble, BinHex, Base64, UUEncode Conditioned view supported
Text Clip HeadClip,FreeClip, FootClip supported APOP supported
Filter supported as mail data base Find supported
Languages more than 60 languages Find result View supported
Multilingual 1 byte, 2 bytes and RTL languages are supported Mail Sort supported
Multilingual format Unicode, MultilScript Mail Trace supported
Character set Auto select Internet Config supported
Decoding Auto select Clickable URL supported
Skip mail allows to skip mail by size Label supported
HTML mail supported Language convert supported
Spell check support Word Service Spam filter MailGoGoGo
Protect your data Diagnose & repair your mail data ContextMenu supported
Japanese/Korean Auto Proof Keep paragraph supported
RTL languages RightToLeft/LeftToRight indent support Ê Ê

System requirements:
• Power PC
• Mac OS 8.0 or higher
• TextEncoding Converter 1.3.1 or higher
• 2MB space of memory
• 10MB or over space of hard drive (HFS+ is recommended.)
• For multilingual Each language Kit or localized version of MacOS is installed.

Magellan is $50.00 shareware Ê(20 days trial only)

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

Mac OS X Mail

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

Apple calls and mail a "killer app." However, one wonders whether it what it is going to kill will not be the present rich and wonderful diversity of choice among third-party Mac email clients chronicled in this article.

If it does, that would be a shame, IMHO. I like having a lot of software choices. Now, I'm not suggesting that OS X Mail isn't a good email client. I haven't really used it in service, but my son, who has switched to OS X, says Mail is now even more polished and capable, and he has decided to use it instead of PowerMail and SweetMail, which had been his previous favorites.

If that tends to be the trend followed by most OS X users, it doesn't augur well for the future of third-party Mac email software.

Currently, SweetMail, Eudora, Mulberry, and Fizzila all have native OS X native email software versions available.

Of course, one upside to this is that fewer Mac users will be lured into entrusting their e-mail to Microsoft because, of Outlook Express being bundled with the Mac OS. I'm assuming that OE is still shipping with OS X on the included OS 9.1 CD, but no longer will it be "the" email client that comes with new Macs (once OS X starts shipping with new Macs). Mail is a lot better email client than Outlook Express.

Being a plain text email advocate, Apple's blurb: "Send email that goes beyond words" does not exactly warm the cockles of my heart. Apple says that "Mail enables you to communicate in ways you’ve always wished you could — quickly, easily and elegantly. Add sound, pictures and movies to your messages and — if you choose — decorate your words in picturesque fonts and bright colors." Guess they all have broadband in Cupertino.

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

With Mail, you can also drop attachments directly into your messages. Just drag a sound file, image or movie to the body of your message, and that’s it. It’s loaded. Your enclosure is ready for sending. Also cool.

Not as cool, in my estimation is this Microsoftian wrinkle: when you start typing in a recipient’s name, Mail offers matching addresses from your AddressBook. Press the tab key to pick the one you want, and your email is addressed. Thanks, but I'd rather pick from a menu.

Mail's AddressBook also gives you digital cards on which to store your contacts' pictures, home and office street addresses and phone numbers, and other personal information (such as their birthdays and website URLs).

For some reason, Apple has decided to call Mail's filters "Rules," which seems like gratuitous revisionism.

Will I use Mail when I finally switch to OS X? Probably, at least for some of my email accounts. There is a certain logic and indisputable convenience to having an email client integrated into the basic OS interface.

However, I'm not likely to give up on the slick convenience of Nisus Email's quick send feature, and I'm pretty attached to some of the things Eudora has to offer. On the other hand, I expect the time is coming to say goodbye to Eudora Light, my faithful email servant since I started using the Internet.

It will be interesting to see whether OS X Mail will break the thrall Claris Emailer, a contemporary of Eudora Light that never appealed much to me, has for some Mac users. Perhaps, but a friend of mine who is running OS X on his new TiBook is still using Emailer. Go figure.

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

Mailsmith 1.1.7

In addition to the essentials that every Internet email client must support (such as conformance to the POP3 and SMTP mail transport protocols), Bare Bones Software's Mailsmith features the following capabilities:

• Distributed Filters
A new concept in sorting (or "filtering") email, Distributed Filters make it possible for a small number of reusable, easily-set-up filters to do the work of clumsy, monolithic "rules". Unlike other email clients, Mailsmith filters can apply multiple criteria within a filter, and each filter can trigger multiple actions to be performed on the message being processed.

• Advanced searching
Mailsmith uses a database to store email. As a result, users can easily perform searches which are impossible with other Macintosh email clients, including multiple criteria connected by logical AND, OR, and XOR operators, and optionally involving "grep" pattern matching and approximate ("fuzzy") searching.

• Powerful OSA scripting
Mailsmith is the first Macintosh email client in which email management is fully OSA scriptable and recordable. As a result, users can enjoy unprecedented power and flexibility in automating Mailsmith to serve their particular needs. In addition, Mailsmith includes all of the materials necessary for use with Frontier, the advanced system-level scripting environment produced by UserLand Software.

• Advanced text composition
Bare Bones Software has included the essential capabilities of BBEdit, their award-winning text editor, at the core of the Mailsmith composition environment. Users can enjoy world-class editing performance, coupled to a dizzying array of text transformations, and further enhanced by the ability to employ BBEdit plug-ins for specialized tasks.

• Approximate ("fuzzy") searching
Mailsmith incorporates a new type of text search, which makes it possible to locate text which approximately matches (with an accuracy ranging from 20 to 100 percent) the specified search string. This means that the user no longer has to precisely specify the search string in order to avoid a flood of "false positives", or endlessly try different search strings to find the needle in a haystack.

• Compatibility
In addition to supporting the essential POP3 and SMTP mail standards, Mailsmith also supports MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) for the transmission and reception of email messages containing content of varying types; outgoing file attachments may be encoded in one of a number of popular cross-platform encoding formats (including AppleSingle, AppleDouble, and UUcode) as well as the Mac-standard "BinHex" format. Mailsmith can directly import mail store files from the popular 'mbox' format (which is used by email clients from other manufacturers), as well as mail filters and address book files created by Eudora(tm). Finally, import scripts are provided to assist in migrating to Mailsmith from other major Macintosh email clients.

Mailsmith 1.1.7 includes improved support for SMTP authentication and several changes that make it easier to use Mailsmith within the Classic environment on Mac OS X. The update is available free of charge to registered Mailsmith customers. It also regrettably terminates support for 68k Macs.

The following changes are new for Mailsmith 1.1.7:

• Added two new settings to the "Advanced" tab in the Email Accounts window: "POP Port" and "SMTP Port" let you control which TCP ports Mailsmith will connect to for receiving and sending mail, respectively. The factory default (and standard) ports are 110 for POP and 25 for SMTP.
There is ordinarily no need to modify these settings; however, if you're using a local SSH tunnel or port reflector, you may find it useful (or even necessary) to use different ports.
• Mailsmith is now PowerPC-only; attempting to run it on a 68K Mac will result in a message to that effect.
• The "POP Monitor" command is now on the Windows menu.
• When running in the Classic environment on Mac OS X, you can now enter "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" (the canonical loopback address) for a POP or SMTP host name, and Mailsmith will connect to the machine on its actual IP address. This makes it much easier to use Mailsmith with port reflectors or SSH tunnels on machines with dynamically assigned IP addresses (such as PPP or DHCP).
• The "Advanced Query" window now remembers the search settings: All Mailboxes/Individual Mailbox, Include Nested Mailboxes, and the selected mailbox.
• Whenever a mailbox is opened, it remains open until you quit Mailsmith. Although this does slightly increase Mailsmith's memory requirements, it significantly increases overall performance. (In practical terms, if you already keep the Mail Browser or Mailbox List window open all the time, you're not likely to notice the memory usage.)
• Each incoming message is now filtered as soon as it is stored, rather than being handed off to a background task. This generally results in messages being filtered sooner, rather than later.
• The connection dialog for the POP monitor now lets you specify the connection port. If you choose an account from the popup, it will fill in with the connection port from that account.
• The "Save..." button in the POP monitor is now a first-class citizen, rather than being a modifier on "Get".
• Added "Re-Send" command to the contextual menu for message lists.

Mailsmith 1.1.7 also incorporates numerous bug fixes. A detailed list of changes made in this release can be found online:
http://www.barebones.com/support/mailsmith/mailsmith-notes.html

Mailsmith 1.1.7 has a suggested retail price of US$79, and may be purchased directly from Bare Bones Software.

Any BBEdit or BBEdit Lite user, or owner of Claris Emailer or Qualcomm Eudora, is eligible to purchase Mailsmith at the cross-upgrade discount price, US$59, which is only available direct from Bare Bones Software.

For additional details, visit the company's Web site:
http://www.barebones.com/
or
http://www.barebones.com/products/mailsmith/mailsmith-features.html

Mozilla 0.9.2

Mozilla is the name of the open source project that is responsible for the underpinnings of the Netscape 6 series of browsers. It includes all of the main features of Netscape 6.x, including the Messenger email client.

With the Mozilla 0.9.2 build, I have declared Mozilla a usable, everyday application that has finally reached the critical stage of development where it is capable of taking over from Netscape 4.x or Internet Explorer/Outlook Express as a day to day browser and email client. It still needs some polishing, but it is finally quite stable, and it is a substantial improvement on Mozilla 0.9.1, which itself was a quantum leap ahead of previous versions.

I prefer Mozilla to its sibling, Netscape 6.1, for a couple of reasons. First, Mozilla is not larded up when with the extraneous AOL junk that Netscape is encumbered with. Secondly, milestone Mozilla builds are usually several degrees farther along in development than the ones chosen for the Netscape versions.

Mozilla 0.9.2 incorporates the following the following improvements:

• Continued stability improvements with 25 top crash bugs fixed since 0.9.1. These bugs were fixed thanks to data generated by users running talkback builds.
• New context sensitive help in preference dialogs and new help viewer content donated from the Netscape 6.1 PR1 release (which still needs to be Mozillafied). (Bug 46917)
• The preferences dialog now allows you to turn off animated gif images or set them to only animate once. (Bug 64831)
• The View Source window has a new toolbar for common tasks like File, Edit and View (Bug 63026)
• You can click the lock icon to see security information about the current page.
• Security UI and help is now fully integrated with the rest of the browser interface.
• To get Mozilla to spew debugging messages to the console, enable verbose mode by adding the following line to prefs.js file in your profile.

System Requirements:
• Mac OS 8.6 or later
• PowerPC 604e 266 MHz or faster processor, or G3/G4
• 64 MB RAM
• 36 MB of free hard disk space

Be forewarned, Mozilla pretty big and RAM-hungry. The default RAM partition is 28,672k (minimum 20,480k), and while the Mozilla application itself is only a tiny 240k, the Mozilla folder is a whopping 26.9 MB, making it awfully big for just email use, but it is a good browser too.

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

Downloads:
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.9.2/

For more Mozilla news, visit:
http://www.mozillazine.org/

Mulberry v2.1b1

Mulberry is a high-performance, scalable, and graphically attractive internet mail client. It uses the IMAP (IMAP4rev1, IMAP4, and IMAP2bis) protocol for accessing mail messages on a server, the standard SMTP protocol for sending messages, and does lots and lots of things with MIME parts for mixed text and "attachments" of many different types of files and data. Version 2.0 introduced support for POP3 and Local accounts, full disconnected IMAP support, PGP, SSL and much more.

Mulberry is also one of the handful of Mac email clients that still supports 68k Macs and Mac OS versions as old as System 7.1, and one of even fewer that support SMTP authentication/authorization for those machines.

The Mulberry v2.1b1 release is now available for testing. This version also includes a Mac OS X 'native' version for early adopters of Apple's new OS.

Mulberry 2.0.8 is the current final release.

Mulberry is designed to be kind to your system, and your memory and disk space budgets. Mulberry comes in a compact installer, and only a single file is a requirement for operational installation.

System requirements:
• Any 68K or PowerPC Macintosh (PowerPC-accelerated), or compatible emulation environment
• 2500K available RAM (4 megabytes total system memory for 68K and 8 megabytes for PowerPC recommended)
• 5.3 megabytes of disk space (full install) 3.8 megabytes (minimal install)
• TCP/IP under Open Transport 1.1.1or later or MacTCP 2.04 or 2.06
(Open Transport is recommended)
• System 7.1 or later recommended
• NB The Mac OS installer now works natively on Mac OS X (as well as Mac OS classic) and will automatically install the Mac OS X version of Mulberry as required.

IMPORTANT NOTES for Mac OS X use:
• PGP is not available under Mac OS X.
• The Kerberos V4/GSSAPI authentication plugin is not available under Mac OS X. The old KClient extension won't work with the new Mac OS X extension architecture. A newer version of KClient (v3) is available from MIT, but we've not ported to that yet.

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

Musashi 3.2.4

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

Other Features:
• Drag & drop operation
• Background send and receive and searching and filtering are also supported
• filtering
• Runs with 2 MB RAM partition

Version 3.2.4 makes the following changes:
• Fixed the problem some parts of Bcc: addresses is visible on destination (only in 3.2.3).
• Fixed the problem subject and sender in Japanese messages Imported from Eudora Archive is converted incorrectly (only in us, de, es, fr and it versions).

Musashi is $33 shareware.

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

Netscape 6.01

Netscape 6 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 (Messenger) as well as a newsreader and instant messenger.

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

Netscape 6 features:

• Standards support

• My Sidebar
Located on the left side of the Netscape 6 interface, My Sidebar gives you a convenient place to keep track of the things that are important to you. My Sidebar Central brings together all the information about My Sidebar - cool tabs, how to create your own tabs for My Sidebar and the ways that you can use My Sidebar.

Other My Sidebar features:
• Hundreds of Netscape tabs, including Stocks, News, Calendar, music and more!
• Instant Messaging Buddy List tab lets you keep track of your buddies and communicate with them in real time
• Third party tabs from CBS, CNN and other web sites from around the world
• Open architecture enables web developers to easily create My Sidebar tabs and link them from their sites

Integrated email and Instant Messaging
• Netscape 6 is the first Internet software suite to seamlessly combine browsing, email and instant messaging. You can now manage multiple email accounts and communicate with friends who use AOL Instant Messenger service - all in an environment integrated with the Navigator browser. With Netscape's new Address Book Sync feature, you can synchronize your Netscape 6 Personal Address Book with a Netscape Web Address Book and access your contact information via the Web, using any web browser.

Integrated communications features:
• Multiple email accounts, including Netscape Webmail and AOL email accounts.
• Integrated instant messaging with Buddy presence in My Sidebar and Mail messages
• Automatic collection of contact information from the people you communicate with in the Netscape 6 address book.
• Address Book synchronization gives you access to your contacts on your desktop or on the Web.

Fully customizable, integrated Search
• Netscape Navigator now includes a search field in the main toolbar. That means that at any time, from anywhere on the Web, you can type what you want and click "Search" - you no longer have to take the time to load a special search page or open a frame. This search field doubles as the web address field. So whether you have a web address, an Internet keyword or a word or phrase to search for, enter it in the search field and get what you want quickly.

Search highlights
• Includes the Netscape Search service (powered by Google, the #1 search engine) and Netscape Open Directory Project (the #1 search directory).
• Customize with your choice of Search services.
• Search results are opened in My Sidebar, allowing you the flexibility to check multiple results without time consuming return trips to a search engine.

Customizable Themes
• With Themes, you can personalize the look of your browser. Choose a custom appearance for your Netscape 6 software that best matches your personality. Web sites and businesses now have the ability and tools to create custom browsers to best communicate with their customers.

• Customize the browser interface
• Quickly and easily change the appearance of your browser
• Any organization can create and distribute a custom browser

Small download size and speed
• Netscape 6 is a full-featured browser that claims to buck the trend in software bloat (but doesn't do it as well as iCab or the upcoming Opera).

Netscape 6 was developed from the ground up to be as small as possible while still providing a rich feature set.

• Installer is less than a 300k download and allows you to customize your installation with just the components you want.
• Browser is only 7.5 MB download - smaller than a comparable install of Internet Explorer.
• Typical installation is9.5 MB - smaller than a comparable installation of Internet Explorer 5.5.

Does Netscape 6.01 work as an email client? Well, if you like all your eggs in one basket, so to speak, this (or Netscape Communicator 4.77) is your application. I prefer the "pure" Mozilla version, but that's a personal choice.

Minimum system requirements for Netscape 6 call for a PowerPC 604e-equipped Mac running at 266MHz; Mac OS 8.6; 64MB RAM; and 36MB available hard disk space. The download link below is for the full installer for Netscape 6.01; for other installers, please visit Netscape's Web site.

Netscape 6.01 is freeware.

To download Netscape 6.01, either boot up your Netscape installer, or download the installer at:
http://home.netscape.com/browsers/6/index.html

If you would rather use one of the most fully developed, albeit a bit dated, pieces of Internet software, try Netscape Communicator 4.77, which is still available, and includes the same suite of applications as Netscape 6.01.

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

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

Nisus Email 1.5.1

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

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

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

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

Nisus Email is now up to version 1.5.1, and you can read about all the features, or download the 14 day fully working demo here:
http://www.nisus.com/products/nisusemail

You can also purchase and download from that URL, for $29.95, and if you have paid for a previous version of Nisus Email, the upgrade to version 1.5.1 is free.

Nisus Email 1.5.1 fixes a bug with "MailTo" links. Also new since version 1.0.9:
• Fast email and text searching options added.
• The Instant Window is now resizable.
• Recipient nicknames are autoexpanded.
• Customizable attribution option added.
• Attachments can now be viewed, added, and deleted in the Quick Message window (and the Queued Emails window).
• "MailTo" link support added. Nisus Email can now compose emails when you click on a website link that starts an email composition.
• Global recipient greeting & signature added.
• Filtering option added to allow filters to be applied to either incoming or outgoing emails.
• All replies & HTML decoded files use the stationery file.
• Faster parsing/decoding of emails/attachments.

Nisus Email sells for $29.95.

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

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

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Charles W. Moore

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