Albert
Current Version: 2.2.1
From Dean Davis, author of other Orchard favorites such as WeatherMan, comes this unusual application that is hard to really classify, since - while it is indeed a POP3 email client - it is not really for sending or receiving emails, per se. Albert, as its author aptly describes, "is a nifty little application that can launch AppleScripts by sending it an e-mail. You can use any e-mail account to send Albert a command. Albert looks at the Subject line of each e-mail for the word 'Albert:', then launches the script with the name that follows 'Albert:'." It's an interesting application; version 2.2.1 adds/changes the following:
- Fixed bug where Albert would stall in checking Email state.
User Reviews
"Now this thing is fantastic!!! The author himself doesn't seem to be aware of the potential of his creation as he writes in the readme file, "All told, you may not find much use for this application. I made it on a whim." I say "wait a moment," everybody is waiting for Bluetooth in order to turn mobile phones into a remote control for computers and other appliances, but Bluetooth is vapourware at this point. Albert can do the very same thing over any distance very lo-tech *today*. If you have a mobile phone with email, you can send your Mac an email from your mobile and tell it to do all kinds of things, like gathering news to be emailed to you, turn the heating on in the house, send a entry from a phone book, you name it, the possibilities are mind boggling. Also, if you are travelling a lot, like I do, you can maintain access to your desktop back home even without expensive Internet connections. You could tell your Mac to start FTP only before you actually intend to use it and turn it off again afterwards all by email, so FTP would be shut and not open to possible attacks. Also, if you only have a dialup connection, you could send your desktop an email (to be checked, say, twice a day) to dial-up at a specified time, send yourself the IP address, start FTP and stay connected for a specified time, etc. This thing is very useful for people on the move; it's far more than just another easter egg made on a whim. The installation and configuration is very easy and it performs very well even on my old PowerMac 7100. I set Albert to check every two minutes, then wrote two scripts for turning the music on and off. Afterwards I sent email to start the music from my iBook and a little later the music started and a confirmation email arrived back from Albert. It uses only 2MB when running and everything works as advertised. The only thing I would like to see is the ability to authenticate senders via digital signatures in the body of the email, which could easily be done using PGP, which is scriptable, but Albert unfortunately is not scriptable. Nevertheless, Albert rocks! I give it five stars: *****"
—Bee Kay
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AutoMail
Current Version: 2.8.1 (April 17, 2003)
From the Info-Mac abstract: "AutoMail is a program designed to help you create customized e-mail messages with a minimum effort. Data can be imported from any database and merged into user-editable templates. AutoMail, thanks to its SMTP agent, doesn't require external programs to send the messages, and the support for AppleEvents allows for totally automated operation." Version 2.8 solves some compatibility issues with Jaguar. If you experience errors reading from disk within AutoMail, this update will correct the problem.
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Balzac
Current Version: 1.0 Beta Build 29 (October 31, 2007)
Balzac is a new email application for OS X 10.4 and above that aims to provide a simple view on your mail whilst allowing fast, sophisticated searches of past correspondence. It has been written to utilise 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
- Security features for viewing HTML email
- Supports Growl notifications
Build 29 adds/changes the following:
- 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
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Correo
Current Version: 0.3 (December 6, 2007)
Correo is a new (as of early 2007) email client from Nick Kreeger, who is an active contributor to the download manager of the excellent Camino web browser. The goal of Correo is to create a native Cocoa mail client that uses the Mozilla mail/news library and the Gecko browser view that Camino uses. The project is still in the early stages of development, but there are many planned features, including plugin capability (to allow development of extensions such as PDA synchronization), a tabbed window interface, address book support, keychain access, and various other to-be-determined features.
Once Nick gets the core feature set working on this application, he will release all the work to the open source community, so the project can grow.
Version 0.3 adds/changes the following:
- Leopard Support
- Enhanced IMAP support - subfolders now load properly
- Improved Character Encoding Support
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Direct Mail
Current Version: 2.1.2 (June 12, 2008)
DirectMail is a shareware mailing-list and bulk email program for Mac OS X 10.3 and later, featuring a simple and clean user interface and a low price point. DirectMail supports the creation of plain text, rich text, HTML and combined HTML/plain text multipart/alternative emails; includes mail merge, address importing, multilingual capabilities; and is capable of direct connections to recipients' email servers.
Version 2.1.2 makes the following changes:
- New: Support for lists in rich text messages.
- Updated: Improved crash reporting mechanism.
- Fixed: Crasher after choosing Undo.
- Fixed: MySQL group crasher.
- Fixed: CSV importer correctly parses CSV files with multi-line field entries.
- Fixed: Connection Doctor network reachability status now automatically updates.
- Fixed: MySQL group icon now displays correctly.
- Fixed: CSV importer correctly remembers last used settings.
- Fixed: History item table now responds to scroll wheel input.
- Fixed: Mail merge tags now allowed in embedded rich text URLs.
- Fixed: Click count for tracked links now accurate.
- Fixed: Windows now remember their positions and sizes.
- Fixed: Message merging now faster/more efficient.
User Reviews
[1.7.8] "This is one of the best values in shareware. A simple, easy-to-use interface makes Direct Mail a snap to use with no learning curve. The versatile import command accepts mailing lists in CSV format, which is very convenient. All I wanted to do was send occasional bulk emails with heavy HTML, CSS and embedded image content, and Direct Mail was the perfect solution for me."
—Russell Shaddox, September 8, 2006
[1.7.8] "An excellent direct mail program for Mac OS X, offering intuitive ease of use. Still showing growing pains when trying to create more subtle mail messages. Importing Word for Mac files and images into Messages results in loss of formatting. Notwithstanding Direct Mail itself incorporates many formatting tools, I have experienced many times the email messages look totally different upon arrival in the target's mailbox. Support or service extremely slow or lacks completely, which is totally unacceptable and will stain this otherwise excellent value for money product. Invitation to Mr. Jonathan and friends: do surprise me, but hurry up!"
—Herman Thuy, September 9, 2006
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Directory Widget
Current Version: 1.0 (September 5, 2006)
Directory Widget is a new widget from Andrew Starr (perhaps best known to Orchard visitors as the eMailman) that provides uniquely useful LDAP lookup functionality.
Directory Widget will look up directory information (e-mail addresses and more) from many colleges, universities, and other institutions (for example the National Institutes of Health). Although it uses LDAP (Lightweight Directory Address Protocol), the end user does not need to understand what LDAP is. The widget comes preloaded with settings for over 70 directory servers. Additionally, the user can add more servers to the widget. eMailman, LLC plans to release updates with additional servers. A partial list of current servers preloaded into the widget is at http://www.emailman.com/ldap/widget/serverlist.html.
The widget defaults to the most recently used directory (or users can have multiple instances of the widget running so that their most frequently used directory is always available). Users can easily select from a different directory or add more. Users can then search by full or partial names. Results can be viewed with just names and e-mail addresses or with the full results returned by the server.
Companies and institutions can contact eMailman, LLC to discuss site licensing or customized versions of the widget.
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Em@ilCRX
Current Version: 1.6.5 (July 6, 2007)
Hendrickson Software Components produces Em@ilCRX (EmailCRX), a desktop-based, automated email filtering software system that uses reverse DNS validation, country filtering, user defined phrases, and a challenge response system to stop spam from making it into your email inbox.
Em@ilCRX will collect all of the email from all of your POP email accounts, and - using its reverse DNS based email rating engine system, country filter, user defined phrases, and challenge response system - Em@ilCRX will validate the email, letting through only the email that is in a user managed friends list, or passes validation, or receives a valid challenge reply. Valid challenge replies will automatically add the email address(es) of the sender to the user's friends list.
The user's email will be downloaded to a user manageable database. The user retrieves cleared messages using their email client software (e.g. Apple Mail, Outlook, etc...), is able to forward clean messages to the mobile device, or from the Em@ilCRX user interface, the user can review the spam, or have it automatically deleted, or automatically reported to the sender's Internet Service Provider.
The spam being deleted from your POP server will be a huge benefit to users that also forward their email to a Blackberry, Trio, etc., because the spam will be deleted before it has a chance to be forwarded to your mobile device.
Em@ilCRX sets itself apart from other filters in the following ways:
- Filtering is DNS based (versus content and RBL-based filtering, which is more error-prone), so it is suitable for business use.
- Filtering can be done by country (e.g., filter any email originating from China, Korea, etc.)
- Challenge response is only used on messages that pass DNS validation, but the sender is not in the user's friends list.
- User defined phrases filtering is supported with regular expressions.
- Will keep both your desktop and mobile device inboxes free of spam.
Version 1.6.5 adds/changes the following:
- Changed the way the filter is trained, and added an admin item to "tune" the filter.
- Items marked as spam using the other Em@ilCRX checks are not automatically added to the filter content any longer. This approach was causing the filter database to grow unnecessarily large. New items are added ONLY when the user manually marks (or re-marks) an item as spam.
- Added a "Tune Filter" feature, that will remove obscure items (items that have been referenced an insignificant number of times) from the filter database.
- Both of these changes should improve the Bayesian type filter's performance significantly.
See the 1.6.5-related discussion thread for more information.
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Email Merge
Current Version: 2.1.1 (December 14, 2002) / 2.3.6 (February 16, 2007)
Email Merge is a program for creating a mailing of individualized email messages. It combines a database and an email message to create customized email messages. Email Merge can be used for invoicing, sales, list management, student grading and even personal messages. Email Merge is compatible with Apple Mail (OS X 10.3 or later), Entourage, Eudora, Mailsmith, PowerMail, Outlook Express, Emailer or QuickMail Pro. Features include:
- Imports directly from FileMaker Pro, clipboard or text file.
- Verification of outgoing messages, email addresses and attachments.
- Supports HTML email (Entourage and Outlook Express only).
- Database features, included sorting and finding duplicates.
- Messages can be sent using different accounts.
- Attachments can be included with messages.
Email Merge 2.3.6 - the latest version for Mac OS X - works around a problem between Apple Mail and the system Address Book.
Email Merge contains comprehensive documentation, context-sensitive help and a tutorial. Email Merge for Mac OS X costs $39 for one license. Upgrades from Email Merge for Classic Mac OS cost $19 per license. A site license for an entire office costs $349. Once a license is purchased, the 20-message restriction on merging is removed.
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eMail Verifier
Current Version: 3.4 (April 16, 2008)
eMail Verifier verifies the validity of email addresses by quickly communicating with the potential recipient's mail server without actually sending mail. eMail Verifier disconnects as soon as the mail server informs the program whether the address exists or not. Email Verifier can verify over 10 e-mails per second. It can verify single e-mails or huge lists.
Version 3.4 adds/changes the following:
- [Upg] The DNS lookup engine now supports several types of non-standard responses.
- [Upg] New rules added to handle more blacklisting situations.
- [Chg] Result file now include the extension by default (Mac OS X).
- [Chg] Document file now use the '.eck' extension by default (Mac OS X).
User Reviews
"This is the greatest little utility for cleaning up an emailing list full of errors or dead emails . . . a must-have. Works quickly and efficiently."
—Matt Weeks
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Eudora
Current Version: 6.1.1 (May 20, 2004) / 6.2.4 (October 12, 2006)
Eudora used to be the king of the free third party Macintosh email applications. It supports SMTP, POP and IMAP servers, stationery, provides multiple mailboxes, filtering, offline reading and replying, and - most importantly - is very, very reliable.
Version 6.2.4 is officially the last commercial version of the old Eudora application that is so well-known and loved. On October 11, 2006, Qualcomm announced:
"Future versions of Eudora will be based upon the same technology platform as the open source Mozilla Thunderbird email program. Future versions of Eudora will be free and open source, while retaining Eudora's uniquely rich feature set and productivity enhancements. Qualcomm and Mozilla will each participate in, and continue to foster development communities based around the open source Mozilla project, with a view to enhancing the capabilities and ease of use of both Eudora and Thunderbird.
"Qualcomm also today announced that it has released the final commercial versions of the current Eudora products for Windows and Mac operating systems. The open source version of Eudora is targeted to release during the first half of calendar year 2007. Once the open source version of Eudora is released, Qualcomm will cease to sell Eudora commercially. In the interim, Qualcomm will continue commercial sales, at a reduced price of $19.95 and with a six-month period of technical support. Existing technical support commitments will be honored in their entirety.
"'I'm excited for Eudora to be returning to the open source community,' said Steve Dorner, vice president of technology for Qualcomm's Eudora Group. 'Using the Mozilla Thunderbird technology platform as a basis for future versions of Eudora will provide some key infrastructure that the existing versions lacked, such as a cross-platform code base and a world-class display engine. Making it open source will bring more developers to bear on Eudora than ever before.'"
Andrew Starr's Unofficial Eudora Site links to more information about the new product (codenamed "Penelope"), including a discussion forum. The official "Penelope" development page has more information, and as of September 2007, you can try out the latest (beta) release below!
No longer available in "Paid" mode (which was equivalent to the old Eudora Pro, but which required an annual subscription fee), Eudora 6 can now be run in one of two "modes" - "Sponsored" mode, which gives you all the features of the former "Paid" mode (except for spam filtering) for free, displaying advertisements as you use the program; and "Light" mode, which eliminates several of the coolest features of the program (but doesn't display advertising, either), giving users an equivalent to the old "Eudora Light" application, albeit a much more up-to-date version. Sponsored mode adds many features, including a built-in spelling checker and more sophisticated message filtering.
Eudora versions 5.1 and later are for Power Macs only; users of 680x0 Macs will have to keep using the older Eudora Light software, which is still available.
At any rate, version 6.2.4 added/changed the following:
- Make sure Eudora labels get refreshed after changing via settings
- Using semicolon instead of colon after the scheme no longer confuses scamwatch
- Port numbers no longer befuddle scamwatch.
- Internal whitespace in hostname of link text was confusing scamwatch
- Putting mailbox names on some IMAP errors that didn't have them
- Visit Web Site now goes to different server
- shift-open address book now selects the entry with the email address of the current message
- New Mail.app Importer (v 1.1), handles Tiger mail folder layout.
- Updated StaticJunkDB.txt to help with changes in spammer's techniques
- Added preference for hiding the "Change Password" menu item
- Fixed problem with pasted graphics on fileid-deficient filesystems like SMB
- Moved 'Save Password' to password entry dialog
- "Visit Web site" opens the Eudora folder if the option key is held down
- Redesigned password dialog to include more information
- Patch for finding attachments (esp IMAP) on systems that don't support fileid's
- Fixed crash importing address book entries
- Fixed potential crash cleaning up Out.temp at startup
- Address Book import gets correct address for groups from distribution list
- Recognizing PNG files from "extension" only
- No longer deleting messages on delete key autorepeat
- Worked around Safari's habit of putting text in what should be picture drags/copies
- Added <x-eudora-setting:197> to turn off the Services menu in Eudora
- Links that began with newlines could fool scamwatch
- Adjusted spacing of radio buttons in various settings panels.
- <x-eudora-setting:13918> is a comma-separated, case-sensitive list of words MoodWatch will ignore
As of version 6.2, new versions of Eudora are available for Mac OS X only; as of versions 6.0 / 6.1, support for PowerMacs was limited to those machines running OS 9 or higher; older versions may be purchased through http://www.soft-net.co.uk.
Be sure to check out Andrew Starr's Eudora for Macintosh Page for more information regarding the unique capabilities of this outstanding program.
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.
User Reviews
"I actually love this software. It is easy to use, there is so much freedom to set user preferences. If you have as many Internet addresses as I do--five which I check daily--with the click of the mouse, you can retrieve your mail from any server without the hassles of constantly changing or forwarding your mail to a designated mailbox. It is a must have."
—Lauren M. Ferguson, MLS
"I respectfully disagree. I have at least two other mail programs, one of which comes "free" with OS X, that check multiple accounts easily for me. To me at least 50% of communication is in the presentation. If you do not communicate your point clearly and with impact you are missing the boat. Unfortunately, Eudora's output, particularly of graphically designed html-based email, is simply ugly and unacceptable. The makers have much work to do, particularly if they hope to get money for this program or be allowed to pester you with advertisements. And it is also unacceptable, in the OS X version, to force you to load Classic when you click on an ad. This app is clearly hampered by an old-fashioned mindset."
—Tim M. Beckwith
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Eudora Light 3.1.3 (for 680x0 Macs).
Eudora 6.1.1 for Power Macs running OS 9.0 or later.
Eudora 6.2.4 for Mac OS X (Carbon).
to the eMailman.com plug-ins page to download just a few of the many fine plug-ins for Eudora.
Version 8.0.0b3 for Mac OS X 10.2+ (Carbon / Universal; February 25, 2008) is the third Penelope release based upon Mozilla Thunderbird, adding a slew of new features (the changes are only for Eudora and Penelope, and all changes made by Thunderbird are not listed):
- Toolbar icons (and a few other icons) from the original Eudora were moved to Penelope.
- Keyboard shortcuts from the original Eudora were moved to Penelope. You can configure whether these shortcuts in Penelope or the original Thunderbird ones are used in the Penelope panel of the Options/Preferences dialog.
- The menu structure of original Eudora has been copied to a great extent in Penelope.
- Added the ability to display the list of mailboxes in a separate window from the mailboxes themselves, which was similar to the original Eudora. This can be configured in the Penelope panel of the Options/Preferences dialog. Mailboxes opened in a separate window have their size/position remembered and restored when opened up next.
- Double-clicking or hitting Enter/Return on a mailbox in the folders list now opens up the mailbox in a separate window.
- The toolbar customization dialog was modified to be similar to the way it was implemented in original Eudora.
- Modified the mailbox column headers to look like original Eudora's.
- The "Sender" column has been relabeled as "Who", and outgoing messages display the name of the recipient there. This feature can be controlled by the hidden pref "mail.useWhoColumn".
- You can quickly find messages in a mailbox by typing text in the list of messages. As you type the selection in the mailbox will change based on matching text in the Who and Subject fields. After finding a match you can use the period key to find subsequent matches in the mailbox (and Shift+period to find previous matches).
- Added the Group Select feature from original Eudora where if you hold down the Alt key (option for Mac) and click the left mouse button down on an item in the mailbox it will select all messages that have the same value as the item clicked on, and all of those selected messages will be grouped together. For example, Alt/option-clicking on the name of a sender of a message will select all of the messages in that mailbox sent by that person, and move the messages together. Note that the moving of messages in the mailbox list will break the current sort of the mailbox. The Shift key can be used as a modifier to make the selected messages remain in their original positions in the mailbox list, and thus retain the current sort order.
- Importing mailboxes and messages from the original Eudora in to the new Eudora has been substantially improved under Windows. Import times are now 5 times shorter. Basic message attributes and status are now maintained (read/unread, priority, label). Inline images in messages now get moved over.
- Now filters can be imported from original Eudora to the new Eudora. There is not a one-to-one match up of original Eudora's filtering capabilities and those found in Thunderbird, so not all filters will move over exactly. Filters imported that will lose some capabilities will be warned about in a list after the entire filter import process is complete. Also added was the "Stop Filter Execution" action. This is the equivalent to original Eudora's "Skip Rest" action which causes the filtering process to end for messages that match the criteria in the filter with this action.
- Improvements to the importing of original Eudora Windows Address Books have been made.
- Importing on the Mac now looks for a Eudora folder in the user's document folder (i.e. ~/Documents) in addition to the System Folder and the System Documents Folder.
- Added original Eudora-like IMAP auto-expunge behavior. This is controlled by the hidden pref "mail.imap.expunge_option". It can have values for if auto-expunging should occur never (0), always (1), or on a threshold (2). If on a threshold is set, then auto-expunge will occur when there are at least 20 messages waiting to be expunged. The number of messages for that threshold is actually controlled by the hidden pref "mail.imap.expunge_threshold_number".
- Added a "Refresh Folder List" item to the context menu for IMAP folders which gets the current list of folders/mailboxes from the IMAP server and updates the folder tree for that IMAP account.
- Added support for viewing only messages that are not deleted in IMAP mailboxes. Use the "Not Deleted" item in the View->Messages menu or the Mail Views control on the toolbar.
- New mail sound copied from original Eudora.
- Added "Make Address Book Entry" functionality (in Tools menu).
- Added the "SelectedTextURL" feature from original Windows Eudora, which allows selected text to easily be inserted in to a URL and launched. Menu items for them are located in the Tools menu, and they also get keyboard shortcuts associated with them as well. Use the hidden prefs "penelope.selectedTextURL#", where # is an increasing number in sequence.
See the Penelope site for more information.
Eudora Mailbox Cleaner
Current Version: 4.8 (November 27, 2007)
If you have ever tried to switch from Eudora to Apple's Mail.app or to Thunderbird, you may have found the process frustrating, if not impossible. Eudora Mailbox Cleaner is "a simple application which provides easy one-step migration for your messages and other mail related data." It includes the following functionality (and it really works as advertised):
- Mailbox Importing (from Eudora or Thunderbird to Apple Mail or Thunderbird): Direct conversion from Eudora or Thunderbird mailboxes to Mail.app *.mbox packages or Thunderbird mbox/*.msf files. Aside from being faster than the "Import Mailboxes..." in the respective applications, the following problems are fixed as well:
- Date for sent messages is set properly (i.e., not the date when the messages are imported).
- "To: " headers will not be lost when importing sent messages into Mail.app.
- text/enriched (Eudora's "rich text"), text/html, and multipart/... messages are imported properly.
- Message status flags (sent, replied, forwarded, etc.) are preserved upon import (if this does not work for you, see the remark below).
- Attachment recovery: if the original attachment of a message can be found inside Eudora's "Attachments Folder," the attachment will be re-encoded and attached to the message using proper MIME-compliant encoding.
- Nickname Importing (from Eudora to the Mac OS X Address Book or Thunderbird):
- Directly import Eudora nickname files into the Mac OS X's Address Book or as address book in the default Thunderbird profile. Nicknames marked as "Do not include this nickname when syncing" in Eudora will be ignored.
- All group information will be converted from Eudora to the Address Book and mailing lists will be imported as well.
- Accented characters will import properly into Thunderbird and won't show up as gibberish like they do when using the Thunderbird import.
- See the remark below if auto-complete of addresses in Mail does not work after import.
- Filter Importing (from Eudora to Apple Mail):
- Directly convert Eudora filter files into rules for Mail.app.
All of these features have been tested importing files from the English versions of Eudora (5.1 through 6.2 on Mac OS X) to Mail.app (version 1.1, Mac OS X 10.1.2 up to version 2.0.7, Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger") and Thunderbird (version 0.7.1 through 1.5 in Mac OS X). The import from nicknames into the Address Book has been tested for Address Book 3.0.3 (Mac OS X 10.2.6) through 4.0.3 (Mac OS X 10.4).
Version 4.8 adds/changes the following:
- Nickname import: if no information about a contact's full name is found in the appropriate fields but the information is available in the email address field (e.g., email address entered as "First Last <email@address>"), add that information to the correct fields in the address book instead of discarding it. This works for contacts as well as mailing list members.
- Preserve label information for messages imported to Mail in 10.4/10.5 - Eudora's standard labels (1-7) will be mapped to the same text colors in Mail, the custom labels (8-15) will be mapped to background colors for easier distinction between the labels.
- Properly deal with stray newline characters in message headers when importing mailboxes from Windows Eudora to avoid corrupt messages.
- Make sure that the generated Date headers comply with the format as defined in RFC2822 (we had the order of day and month inverted earlier).
- Don't try to recover attachments/embedded files whose earlier presence is quoted in an HTML message.
- Properly recode custom headers used in Eudora filters to UTF-8 to fix the issue where no rules would be present in Mail after import.
- Parse Date: headers lacking the weekday in the date string - even though this format clearly violates the RFC, it seems to be fairly common for some mailers.
- Prevent attachments from being displayed twice in the imported messages (with the first attachment not containing any actual data).
- multipart/... messages with the first part being HTML no longer show up as empty after the import if the original Eudora message started with an empty line before the HTML content.
- Fix crash when importing Windows nickname files when the file contains a trailing EOL.
- Fix a crash when calling CFRelease() which could occur due to incorrect TOC information for a message.
- Fix an Address Book.framework related crash when running on 10.2.8
- Properly import nickname files from Mac Eudora if they contain only a single entry - that entry was ignored before.
- Fix potential cosmetic problem in the summary dialog when importing Eudora filter and/or nickname files only.
- Adapt the "Rebuild Mailboxes" AppleScript to work correctly in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
Eudora Mailbox Cleaner makes use of many features of CodeWarrior's PowerPlant framework, so it cannot be ported to Xcode to make it a "Universal Binary." It runs well, however, on Intel machines using their "Rosetta" emulation.
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GyazMail
Current Version: 1.5.7 (December 3, 2007)
GyazMail is a multilingual e-mail client for Mac OS X, developed from scratch to be simple, easy-to-use, and feature-filled. The main features of GyazMail are as follows:
- 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/IMAP/SMTP support
- SSL/TLS support
- IPv6 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)
- Growl support
The following features are planned for the future:
- Encrypted Mail / Digital Signatures support
- Spotlight support
- LDAP support
- More AppleScript support
- More Localizations
- NNTP support
- More
The download may be tried for free for 40 days before requiring purchase.
Version 1.5.7 adds/changes the following:
- Improved compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
- Support for Growl 1.1.2.
- Other minor improvements.
- Fixed error generated when moving or deleting mail in a Gmail IMAP account.
- Fixed problem that prevented display of some images in HTML messages sent with Apple Mail.
- 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.
User Reviews
"Been using GyazMail for a few months now...find it to be a GREAT simple mail app. No HTML mail yet (I don't care), but is promised in a future release. The integration with Apple's Address Book is nice. No junk mail filter, but like I said, it's a simple mail app. It's pretty solid, and I haven't had any crashes, unexpected quits, or quirkiness. Runs really well on my old B&W 350, which is a refreshing change to the constant beachballing of M$ Entourage. Their updates have been timely; I will gladly plunk down the few $$$ they are asking for once it hits version 1.0."
—D. Micalizzi
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Intego Personal Antispam
Current Version: "X5" (10.5.1) (April 9, 2008)
Intego, Inc. produces the Intego Personal Antispam spam filtering software add-on for Apple Mail and Microsoft Entourage.
Features include:
- Filters your e-mail and weeds out spam
- Filters spam with Bayesian analysis
- Filters spam by address, message content, layout and more
- Filters spam with a whitelist of your contacts
- Filters spam with a blacklist of known spammers' addresses
- Filters attachments for common file names
- Learns from the spam you receive
- Does not slow down your e-mail program
The latest "X5" version (10.5.1) adds the following new features:
- This update addresses some minor issues and improves overall stability. This update is recommended for all Personal Antispam X5 users.
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IntelliMerge
Current Version: 5.1 (August 8, 2006)
IntelliMerge is dynamic e-mail merge software (i.e., a bulk mailer) designed to simplify keeping in touch with customers, family, and friends. It features an integrated message editor, recipient database system, conditional merging logic, duplicate checker, and high performance message mailer.
IntelliMerge 5.1 introduces the following enhancements:
- AutoSubscriber: IntelliMerge now downloads and processes subscribe and unsubscribe requests over twice as fast as previous release. The AutoSubscriber tool now includes an option to save
- IP Tracking: IntelliMerge can now provide the IP address of subscribe and unsubscribe requests through the AutoSubscriber to prevent abuse.
- Enhanced Invalid E-Mail Checker: IntelliMerge's invalid e-mail checker has been rewritten, offering more better, more accurate invalid e-mail verifications before mailing.
- CSS support: IntelliMerge now includes external style sheets
- Plain text equivalents: for older e-mail clients
- Firefox & OmniWeb previews: check out your message before mailing by launching your browser of choice. IntelliMerge no longer needs to launch Safari to preview a message.
IntelliMerge is available for $99; upgrades to IntelliMerge 5.x from any previous version are $39.
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LDapper
Current Version: 1.2.3 (May 26, 2000) / 2.0.4 (September 3, 2006)
From Carl Bell, the author of Mail Drop, comes this simple, free LDAP client for finding email addresses. See the LDapper read me for more information.
Version 2.0.4 adds/changes the following:
- Fixed a divide by 0 error when searching.
- Progress bar in search "sheet" now goes all the way to 100% when finished. (This always bothered me.)
- Window sizing preferences, etc., are now always saved rather than only being saved when it was explicitly closed.
- Resizing column headers in search window no longer select/sort the column.
- No longer causes "group member should be added to the database first" console messages when exporting to Address Book.
- Copying an entry in a browser window now copies the entry's dn and not the word "goober".
- Universal binary.
- Now requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
- Address Book importer no longer uses separate bundle.
- Now uses the Mac OS X LDAP framework rather than compiled OpenLDAP code. It believe that the version is OpenLDAP 2.2.19.
LDapper author Carl Bell notes: "LDapper 2.0 is a Mac OS X application and will not work with older versions of the operating system. There will be no more 'classic' versions of LDapper. Version 1.2.3 is still available for Mac OS 9 or earlier."
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MacSOUP
Current Version: 2.8.2 (November 7, 2007)
From the Info-Mac abstract file: MacSOUP is an offline reader for news and mail (it can be used for news only, if you prefer Eudora or another email client for mail). It works either with a Unix shell account (in conjunction with uqwk), or with a TCP/IP connection (MacTCP or Open Transport). Features: fetches only article headers in a first pass; lets you select which articles you actually want to download; true references-based threading, with a graphical display of the thread tree; kill file (with regular expressions); and multiple mailboxes with mail filters.
Version 2.8.2 makes the following changes/enhancements:
- Fixed possible crash with the address completion window.
- Fixed problems when running under Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5): Very low data rates when connecting to the server; Bogus error message when clicking in the All Groups or New Groups window.
User Reviews
"MacSOUP is a remarkably useful and easy-to-use off-line mail reader. It combines news and e-mail, has an intuitive interface and a very good address book, and is one of the few Mac programs to work with UQWK, so you don't need TCP - a shell connection will work. MacSOUP can be configured so it is not something you even have to think about. The new version, 2.1, will work with TCP connections as well as UQWK mail packets, but requires Internet Config."
—David Zatz
"MacSOUP, shareware at $20, is simply the best off-line news and mail program available for [the] Mac. It allows me to use [an off-line connection] with a Waffle Bulletin Board, as well as my regular PPP connection. Features are: easy to subscribe/unsubscribe to newsgroups, good kill files, multiple mail boxes, easy to use reply and followup commands, multiple configurations for different servers, accounts etc.,...need I go on?"
—Chris Smith
"I use MacSOUP regularly as my news client application of choice. By retrieving the entire text of subscribed newsgroups in batch mode, the user can spend as much time offline in examining the content. The status of retrieval is shown in in a small window with a progress bar. After MacSOUP completes the retrieval of the textual data, the user can be notified via a system beep. Alternatively, an AppleScript can be initiated (such as one to disconnect a PPP session).
"While reading a news article, you are able to see a branching graphical representation of the current message thread (with symbolic representation of whether a given posting has been read or not). While examining the graphical thread, moving the cursor over a message yields the name of the author. Finally, a fairly flexible kill file option is included.
"The one area where MacSOUP could stand improvement is in its inability to UUdecode binaries (either single or multiple segment). At least one other news client, Nuntius, has this capability."
—Mike Oetting
"MacSOUP is great. I don't waste online time, and its email with newsgroup reader package is the best. MacSOUP also has an article thread tree, which helps you keep track of a topic. This is a must-use program for the beginner Net user."
—Toby Kels
"I have been using MacSOUP for about 3 years now, first on dial-up and now with a permanent Internet connection. Even though I don't "need" an offline reader anymore, MacSOUP still does an amazing job; the killfile facility is as flexible as that on complex UNIX news clients, but remains very easy to use. Being able to fetch all articles from some groups and only headers from others (e.g., binary groups) makes browsing fast and comfortable. And with all the e-mail viruses these days, there's another reason to use a program which does NOT support message attachments."
—Graham Reed
"MacSOUP is rather lovely, especially the threading for offline news reading. Flaws: it insists on using Internet Config, which makes it difficult at best to have two different people (with different email addresses) to use it for news and mail reading, which is a shame. There's also no 'take address into addressbook' that I could find...."
—Stuart Langridge
"I use this on an old Performa 200 (Classic II) and it runs very quickly. The layout of the windows etc. is fine on the small screen and it looks good even in monochrome. This is an ideal newsreader if you are a bit short on processor horsepower. The graphical thread indicator is excellent. The only minus points are that it doesn't handle attachments very well and it can't decode binaries automatically. The ability to customise mail headings is a plus. Recommended!"
—Paul Foster
"The best Shareware app I've ever used - in fact the only one I have paid for. Brilliant. I even use if my Email now as well, it does lack in attachment support, but I set the message limit to download and use Eudora then. Attachment support is promised for the next release. It's a breeze to send messages to multiple NG's or Email and post replies at the same time. Get it NOW."
—Andy Hewitt
"Still the only program with an easily-navigable two-dimensional thread overview and the ability to fast-read tagged messages only -- like "trn" on Unix. Downside: No Carbon version, no ability to export a full .newsrc file."
—Matthias Urlichs
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Magellan Pro
Current Version: 1.5.1 / 1.5.3 (November 29, 2004)
Magellan is a multilingual email client ($35, shareware) that offers a number of unique features, such as:
- 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.
- Work under less RAM than other e-mail software and has an appplication size of only 1.1MB.
Although no information is available regarding what's new in version 1.5.3, version 1.5.2 added/changed the following:
- Better support for OS X 10.3 Panther.
- Improve Error recovery.
- Improve Spellchecker relations.
- Fix the Font list bug in Panther.
Magellan Pro requires Mac OS 8.6 or later and Text Encoding Converter 1.3.1 or later.
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MailCall
Current Version: 2.2 (January 11, 2008)
MailCall is a simple e-mail notification utility from Mike Bailey, the author of ChessWorks (available on the Orchard's Other Applications page).
Version 2.2 - the first release in almost six (!) years - adds/changes the following:
- Universal binary version supports Mac OS X on both Intel and PPC processors.
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Mail Forward
Current Version: 4.1.3b1 (July 2, 2008)
Internet users who have Unix command line access to their accounts usually have simple email forwarding capability that's easy to set up and maintain. Mail Forward is useful for those who don't. From the Mail Forward home page: "Mail Forward allows you to forward mail from up to 20 Microsoft Hotmail or standard POP e-mail accounts to any e-mail address. Mail Forward works by accessing your Microsoft Hotmail In Box or POP mailbox and forwarding each piece of mail through your SMTP mail server. As each message is successfully forwarded, it is cleared from the Hotmail In Box or POP mailbox. The Hotmail or POP account e-mail address is used as the return address for the forwarded mail, so if the mail is undeliverable it will be bounced back to the original account."
Version 4.1.3b1 adds/changes the following:
- Modifications to accommodate changes for Windows Live Hotmail "Full" mode accounts.
- Temporary warning message for unsupported Windows Live Hotmail "Classic" mode accounts.
See the version histories ("Classic" and Mac OS X) for more information. Mail Forward is $12, shareware, and requires an Apple Macintosh or compatible with a PowerPC, 68030 or greater processor, using Mac OS 7.6.1 or later.
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Mailing Sender / PriorityMail
Current Version: 1.0b4 / 1.0 Beta (v31) (May 4, 2005)
Mailing Sender is a simple application that allows you to create a mailing list and send simple text emails, rich text emails - or both - with just four clicks of the mouse. (The Mac OS X version is known as "PriorityMail." Version 1.0v31 (the latest Mac OS X version) adds/changes the following:
- Fixed for compatibility with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
Unregistered copies allow only 10 emails per session. Brief online documentation has more info.
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Mailsmith
Current Version: 2.1.5 (March 10, 2005)
Bare Bones Software, maker of the fabulous BBEdit text editor, produces the Mailsmith email client, which offers very sophisticated email filtering, a clean user interface, and a BBEdit-like editing capability. Versions 2.0 and later include integrated support for SpamSieve and PGP.
Mailsmith requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later; Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later is strongly recommended.
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Mailtron Gateway
Current Version: 1.3.2 / 3.0 (March 20, 2006)
Mailtron Gateway is a POP (and for Mac OS X, a POP/IMAP) email gateway from Studiotron Software that allows multiple people at a single domain to share a single email account. The license key that is required after the initial 30-day usage period is free for "Classic" Mac OS. Version 3.x (for Mac OS X only), however, comes as a fully-functional demo that runs for 30 days (except that he fetchmail daemon will not automatically run after a system restart) and can be registered for $69. The Mac OS X version features "industrial strength" mail forwarding using fetchmail, and automatic protocol detection, including IMAP.
Version 3.0 - the latest release for Mac OS X - adds/addresses the following:
- Fixed compatability with Mac OS X Tiger folder privileges.
- Integrated Kagi registration keys.
User Reviews
"This fine, free program works as advertised. It is easy to set up and runs like a champ. We use it to route all the Internet email for our entire company (15 users)."
—Rob Fiorendino
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MaxBulk Mailer
Current Version: 5.7.2 (June 11, 2008)
MaxBulk Mailer is a shareware bulk email program, the first I can think of for the Macintosh. Bulk email is a very, very bad thing when used improperly, and unfortunately I can't think of very many cases when it has been used properly. From the MaxBulk Mailer home page: "MaxBulk Mailer is a new full featured MacOS bulk mailer able to send commercial mailings to up to several hundreds of emails address very easily. MaxBulk Mailer is fast and fully customizable. It uses mailings as documents with configuration data, mailing text and mailing list built-in. MaxBulk Mailer does not promote spamming. This software is to be used very carefully and always using your customer addresses." Yeah, right. Remember, folks: there are laws regarding spam now. If you do download and use this, use it for valid reasons (e.g., you maintain an opt-in email list). Spamming is just not cool.
Version 5.7.2 adds/changes the following:
- [Upg] New security code added for preventing duplicate deliveries after canceling and resuming the process.
- [Chg] Void tags no longer possible when renaming.
- [Fix] Styled text problem whith given font names.
- [Fix] Import of lists from text files encoding problem on Windows on given ocasions.
- [Fix] Definition list removed to avoid problems when converting styles to HTML.
MaxBulk Mailer is shareware, available at two price points: "Standard" ($49.90) and "Pro" ($59.90), which adds the following features:
- Styled text support - Bold, Italic, Underline, Color, Font...
- Conditional message contents depending on optional tags value.
- 20 Custom Tags for advanced mail-merge.
- Ability to process tags in subject.
- 13 date tags, Long Date, Short Date, Abbreviated Date...
- Quick selector in order to check/uncheck recipients.
- Recipients creation directly from Filemaker (Mac OS).
- Full AppleScript support (Mac OS).
- Hyperlink manager. Allows you to insert text and HTML hyperlinks tags with one click.
- Full MySQL and postgreSQL database support.
- Secure SSL connection support.
- Possibility to use several servers at once.
- Cc and Bcc support.
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Microsoft Entourage
Current Version: 2004 Service Pack 2 / 11.2.1 (October 20, 2005)
Microsoft produces a lot of software, but one of the only essential commercial Internet programs for the Mac to come from our friends in Redmond, WA is Entourage (part of Microsoft Office 2004, and available separately), which allows Mac OS X users to work with Microsoft Exchange servers and do all the nifty things (messaging, scheduling, etc.) that their Windows counterparts have been doing for years.
The Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.2.1 Update fixes a synchronization issue in versions of Microsoft Entourage that have been updated with Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Service Pack 2 (11.2.0). The issue might cause data loss when Entourage attempts to synchronize with an Exchange mailbox that was moved to a different server running Microsoft Exchange Server. This update also resolves issues with setting Exchange server permissions and printing calendars.
Note: Mac OS 8 & 9 users should use Microsoft's Outlook for similar capability.
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Microsoft Outlook
Current Version: 2001 (June 27, 2001)
Microsoft produces a lot of software, but one of the only essential commercial Internet programs for the Mac to come from our friends in Redmond, WA is Outlook 2001, which allows users of Mac OS 9 to work with Microsoft Exchange servers and do all the nifty things (messaging, scheduling, etc.) that their Windows counterparts have been doing for years.
Note: Mac OS X users should use Microsoft's Entourage for similar capability.
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Mozilla
Final Version: 1.7.13 (April 27, 2006) / 1.2.1 (December 3, 2002)
Mozilla was the original name for Netscape Navigator, back when it was first being developed in 1994 by Marc Andreesen and his friends from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA - the people who developed Mosaic, the world's first graphical web browser). The name was supposed to imply a supercharged, "Godzilla" version of Mosaic; Mozilla was forced to change its name to Netscape when the people at NCSA threatened to sue over trademark infringement. Behind the scenes, though, Netscape Navigator and Communicator have always been known as Mozilla; type "about:mozilla" into the "Location" field of any version of those browsers and you'll see evidence of that.
In the early 21st century, with the "Mosaic"-inspired name no longer an issue, Mozilla became the name of the open source project upon which the Netscape series of browsers was based. Continuously developed by programmers around the world rather than by just a handful at a large corporation, it changed constantly, and improved all the time.
Today, however, Mozilla is no longer under development, at least under the "Mozilla" moniker. The primary components of Mozilla - its web browser and email/Usenet client - were broken off into separate, optimized development efforts, known respectively as Firefox and Thunderbird. The combined application suite has, as of early 2006, been reincarnated as SeaMonkey, which I will be adding to the Orchard soon.
Nonetheless, I include Mozilla here for historic purposes, since people will still find it useful and functional for some time, and it represents one of the only opportunities for users of "Classic" Mac OS to access a more modern browser that is largely compatible with today's more advanced web standards.
While Mozilla 1.7.13 was a minor update to Mozilla 1.7 that added some security and stability fixes, version 1.7 made a huge number of feature and performance enhancements. The online release notes have the whole picture.
Mozilla is fast (once it's loaded, which can still take a while) at rendering web pages. Mozilla is a breath of fresh air, and while the interface elements seem a little slow compared to other browsers, pages render remarkably quickly. This latest release is more than worthy of your daily use. Two of my many criteria for determining a browser's usefulness are: 1) how long I keep it open for browsing before quitting out in frustration; and 2) how long it keeps itself open before crashing. Mozilla wins on both fronts. Download it and try it for yourself; I suspect you'll be pleasantly surprised.
FYI: If you use OS X and like Mozilla - but don't like the way it looks - you should proceed, posthaste, to download the Pinstripe Theme for Mozilla, which lets the browser breathe through a beautiful Aqua interface, just like all of your favorite OS X apps. Mozilla's just not complete without it.
Mozilla 1.7 requires a Mac OS X later to run (version 1.2.1 was the last "official" release for OS 9, although the Web and Mail Communicator Project has a modified, unofficial release of version 1.3.1 available for OS 9), and it comes with optionally-installable news, email, and IRC (yes, IRC; Mozilla includes an incomplete IRC client called "Chatzilla" rather than AOL Instant Messenger) components. The mail and news clients are surprisingly well thought-out and pleasant to use, although I will probably always maintain that it is better to use separate, dedicated email and newsreading software rather than taking a "swiss army knife" approach; the separate tools are still superior at what they do. (Personal note: this is why I actually use Firefox for my regular browsing rather than the combined Mozilla suite...for email, I use Eudora.)
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"I used to be a big Netscape fan until version 6. Mac Orchard reviewed NS6 correctly - big and clunky! While IE5 will probably remain my default browser, I am highly impressed with Mozilla. I am a web designer and need to see my pages in all the various browsers. Many times when I would attempt to view a page in NS6, it would quit even before it opened! Finally Mozilla will end that frustration for me."
—Erin Bird
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the Mac OS 9 (Classic) version (1.2.1).
the Mac OS X (Carbon) version (1.7.13).
to the "nightly build" FTP site for the latest unofficial release.
Version 1.8 beta 1 is also available for Mac OS X (Carbon), making many enhancements; however, it was announced in March 2005 that this version will not see a final release, as the Mozilla organization instead focuses its efforts on the development of the independent Firefox and Thinderbird programs. The SeaMonkey project is Mozilla's heir apparent. See the online release notes for more details.
Mulberry
Current Version: 4.0.8 (February 22, 2007)
Once commercial software but now re-released by original author Cyrus Daboo as freeware, Mulberry is a well-loved IMAP and POP3 email client that is available not just for Mac OS X, but for Windows and Linux as well.
Version 4.0.8 adds/changes the following:
- Add option to automatically adjust timezones to new US rules as of March 2007.
- Update built-in timezones to new rules for March 2007.
Please note that there is no official support for Mulberry now - community support via mailing lists and other such resources will be used instead.
As of November 2007, Mulberry is now open source; see the Mulberry wiki for more information.
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Musashi
Current Version: 3.5 (June 16, 2008)
Musashi is an absolutely gorgeous e-mail client that supports multi-user, multi-user mail box sharing, drag & drop operation, and Japanese character sets on the appropriate OS versions. Background send and receive and searching and filtering are also supported. The user interface is spectacular. This software is worth a look for those who find Eudora Light a bit long in the tooth and for whom Eudora Pro is too overwhelming a tool.
Version 3.5 - the latest version for all platforms - makes the following changes:
- Musashi 3.5 is a freeware.
Unfortunately, as of March 2008, it appears as if Musashi development has ceased, and the project is now in "archive" status on Sonosoft's web site, but is at least still available for download as freeware.
User Reviews
"I used an unregistered version of Musashi for a time, and I am excited about it. Its this kind of software I like very much: Uses only small memory, does all it has to do in an efficient and transparent way, has a simple and beautiful GUI . . . . I never did encounter serious problems. It is stable and does very well. None of its competitors is doing the mail-job faster, easier or [in a more stable way]. That's it! Its main problems are that it is almost unknown, it has a terrible name for western people (just my experience when talking to friends about it) and all things that [involve] hierarchical issues like mailboxes and address books are not at the point I would like them to be."
—Martin Buenger
"I love this program! Runs on 2MB RAM, simple interface, filtering, multi-user, custom configurable, clean. Earlier versions seemed to be crash-prone on my machines, but not the current version. It has replaced Eudora Lite on one of my machines!"
—John Jones
"Musashi is an excellent e-mail client, and is surprisingly powerful considering its minimal RAM requirements. I find the search features far superior to Eudora Pro's, prior to Eudora Pro version 4.2.x. It handles multiple email accounts, attachments, and mailboxes with ease. The major features it lacks are an integrated spelling checker and automatic highlighting and activating for URLs and email addresses. The 68K version makes an excellent email client for older Macs and Powerbooks with limited RAM capacity."
—Mark Barnes
"Musashi might have been named after the famous Japanese swordsman, as it is elegant, reliable, swift and sure, takes up very little memory, and keeps getting upgraded with reasonable-sized downloading required. Moreover, questions are answered gladly by real people at the Sonosoft home base. Great stuff."
—Gene Adam
"Another great review coming up . . . I have just ditched Entourage in favour of Musashi. It's small, opens and runs very fast. I can use it just as well on my G3, 603e and ancient Powerbook 180c. it supports multiple accounts and multiple users, allows one to view and control emails on the server with the option to delete without downloading. Downsides - well, it does download accounts sequentially (not side by side as Entourage does) and on the 68k version enclosures do not always decrypt OK (but that may be my computer)."
—Mark Webb
"Musashi has received superior reveiws, and now, with the latest addition of SMTP authentication, I would like to offer up a review of my own. I purchased the Musashi email client just prior to this upgrade, and at that time, with no SMTP authentication, it was impossible for me to send mail. With this latest release, all that has changed, and I am using the Musashi client with no problems whatsoever. Musashi is small in size and is an efficient piece of software. You have drag and drop capabilities, the ability to add simple filters, and for the person with multiple email addresses, the ability to configure Musashi to "pick up" email from those accounts, too. Musashi can be used by multiple users, and with this latest release, Musashi is an adequate email client. There are other clients out there that offer just as much and more, for free, but for the person looking for a smaller, more compact client with personality, and who are willing to shell out the money for it, Musashi may be the email client for you."
—Paul Bowers
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Netscape
Current Version: 9.0.0.5 (December 11, 2007)
Please note: As of February, 2008, Netscape will once again be discontinued. This time, however, it will be discontinued for all platforms, and support for all versions, past and present, will be discontinued as well. See Tom Drapeau's blog post for more information.
Once the universal choice for browsing the web, Netscape's presence today has been marginalized by many other browsers, largely due to the stagnant 4.x series that introduced little innovation, and to the 6.x series, which merely showed amateurish promise.
Netscape 9 is a bundled Web browser / authoring environment / email / newsreader / instant messenger offering based upon the Mozilla project's browser and renderer work.
The primary components of Netscape and Mozilla - both the web browser and email/Usenet client - were broken off into separate, optimized development efforts, known respectively as Firefox and Thunderbird. The combined application suite has, as of early 2006, been reincarnated as SeaMonkey, which I will be adding to the Orchard soon.
In its older (7.x) incarnations, Netscape represents one of the few remaining opportunities for users of "Classic" Mac OS to access a more modern browser that is largely compatible with today's more advanced web standards. Version 7.02 was the final release for "Classic" Mac OS, and it remains available, below.
Version 9 is available for Mac OS X 10.2 and later, represents the first new release of Netscape for the Mac in over three years. It's a universal binary, and it offers the following:
- Visual Refresh - Netscape Navigator 9's theme has been updated to save screen-space and leave more room for the websites you visit.
- URL Correction - Navigator 9 will automatically correct common typos in URLs. For example, if you accidentally type googlecom, Navigator will fix it be to google.com. The browser will watch for nearly 30 different types of common mistakes and correct them for you (asking you to confirm, if you choose to enable confirmation).
- News Menu and Sidebar - The latest news is built right into the browser, under the News menu. Provided by Netscape.com, you can customize the menu to only contain the news sections you want to monitor. You can also open the News sidebar to always keep an eye on what's happening.
- Link Pad - The Link Pad is a new sidebar feature that allows you to save links/URLs that you want to visit later without cluttering your bookmarks. Just drag a link over the Link Pad status bar icon and drop it to save it in the Link Pad. By default, clicking on an item in the Link Pad will open it in the browser and remove it from the list, saving you the step of deleting it.
- News Tracker - The Netscape Tracker sidebar lets you monitor breaking news as it happens, via Netscape.com.
- In-browser voting - Share your opinions with the world! The icons in the Navigator address bar let you share interesting stories you find and vote on stories shared by others.
- Extension Compatibility - Navigator 9 shares an architecture with the latest Mozilla technologies; as such, Navigator 9 will let you install extensions that are compatible with Firefox 2.
- Sidebar Mini Browser - You've always been able to have bookmarks open in the sidebar, but we've improved this functionality and extended it to all links, not just bookmarks. Additionally, we've added a navigation toolbar to the sidebar for even easier split-screened browsing. Just right-click on a link and select "Open Link in Sidebar" to get started!
- Restart Netcape - A smalll but oft-requested feature: you can now restart Navigator (and keep your current tabs intact) by selecting "Restart Navigator" from the File menu.
- Resizeable Textarea - Drag the bottom-right corners of text fields in forms to add more typing space.
- Tab History - Opening a link in a new tab will give the new tab the same history as the source tab for a more seamless tabbed browsing experience.
- OPML Support - Netscape Navigator supports importing and exporting your bookmarks in OPML, a popular format for sharing lists of newsfeeds.
- Throbber - By popular demand, the Netscape 7-style throbber is back. Click on it any time to visit Netscape.com.
- Combined Stop/Reload button - To save space in your toolbar, we've combined the stop and reload buttons. Because you never need both at the same time, the toolbar will only show the relevant half of the pair.
- Friends' Activity Sidebar - If you are a member at Netscape.com, you can keep tabs on what your friends find interesting. This sidebar lets you view your friends latest votes, comments, and story submissions.
- Sitemail Notification - This icon will sport an exclamation point when you have new Netscape.com sitemail messages waiting for you.
- Since Navigator 9 is based on the newest Mozilla technologies, there are additional features in Navigator 9 that were not available in Netscape Browser 8.x. You can read about those new features in these release notes from Mozilla.
Version 9.0.0.5 adds/changes the following:
- These security fixes included in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11 have been included in Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.5.
Netscape 9 is as fast at loading and viewing/navigating pages than just about any browser available for the Mac - even though the interface elements are somewhat clunkier. Even so, Netscape Communicator 4 (updated on 8/20/2002 to version 4.8) is still available (see below) for those who might prefer its quirks.
I have chosen not to review the non-browser components of this release, but I generally recommend people use separate, dedicated email and newsreading software (although the email component has gotten rave reviews in many publications). The Swiss army knife approach just doesn't cut it for me (pun very much intended) when it's not a matter of my pockets feeling bulky.
User Reviews
"Impressive, this new Netscape version (7.0). I was still using 4.76, seeing that version 6 was not well reviewed. This new version draws fast and does not redraw (so far). I like the look and feel of it. After only about an hour with it, I can say I will adopt it. I'm using a PowerBook G3 (Firewire) with OS 9.1 and 384MB of memory. Consider this browser."
—Alain Thibault
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the version 9.0.0.5 full installer for Mac OS X 10.2+ (Carbon / Universal; ~17 MB).
the version 7.2 full installer for Mac OS X (Carbon; ~17.5 MB).
the version 7.02 smart installer ("Classic" - Power Macs only; ~156K).
the version 7.02 full installer ("Classic" - Power Macs only; ~20.2 MB).
to the Communicator 4.8 FTP site to select a version for downloading ("Classic" - Power Macs only).
to the Communicator 4.08 FTP site to select a version for downloading (680x0 Macs).
Nisus Email
Current Version: 1.6.1 (May 7, 2002)
Nisus Software, Inc. produces Nisus Email, a simple but full-featured email client whose claim to fame is its ability to allow you to compose messages in your favorite text editor or word processing program.
Please note that, while the software remains available, it hasn't been updated in quite some time.
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Opera
Current Version: 9.24 (October 18, 2007)
Opera, the browser that has been a favorite of PC users for years, has finally arrived on the Macintosh in recent years. Similar in scope to Mozilla, Opera includes not just a web browser, but an email client and Usenet newsreader as well. Both of these are quite capable, and worth a look if you prefer an all-in-one application to suit the bulk of your Internet communication needs.
Version 9.0 - available for Mac OS X only - was a major revision to the Opera software, adding many key new features, not the least of which included:
- Content blocking
- BitTorrent support
- Widgets
- Search engine editor
- Site preferences
- Integrated source viewer
- Universal binary
- Full-screen integration with Intel Mac remote
- opera:config for advanced settings configuration
- Universal binary.
- Initial support for AppleScript.
- Support for IPv6.
Version 9.24 makes the following additional changes over version 9.23:
- Avoided a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. Details will be disclosed at a later date.
- Fixed an issue where external news readers and e-mail clients could be used to execute arbitrary code.
- Fixed an issue where scripts could overwrite functions on pages from other domains.
- Fixed user interface glitches in OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
The online release notes have much more detail about these new features. I would daresay that, as of the 9.0 release, Opera has become a browser that is worthy of attention on the Mac once and for all. It's quite stable, capable and customizable, and it renders pages very well - on a par with Safari and Firefox. Its breakthrough feature remains its ability to magnify and reduce pages (graphics and all) to just about any size of your choice, which is a real boon for those with disabilities. Its RSS reader is much more thoroughly developed than that in Safari and Firefox as well. Be sure to come back here again for more thorough review soon.
Opera is entirely free, eschewing the built-in advertising that was once its hallmark. Competition in the browser space is a good thing for Mac users. Let's hope that Opera can shake up the Mac browser world in a big way.
User Reviews
[9.0.1] "I've been using Opera 9.01 for just over an hour and I'm already certain there won't be a second hour of testing. In this short space of time I've found the delete button in the download prefs does nothing (I wanted to delete the application/zip prefs to force Opera to ask for new settings), when I set zip files to be opened after downloading, nothing happens, and Opera corrupted all the zip archives I was downloading from a sound clip site. Camino downloaded them fine. Something else that bugged me, yet wasn't an actual bug - when I went Opera->About Opera to get double-check the program version before posting this review, Opera opened the about page IN PLACE of the MacOrchard submit a review page :-( Not good behavior. Opera also touts itself as the fastest browser ever - not in my testing! Camino and even Shiira are faster loading pages. These bugs and annoyances (and this is just what I've encountered in an hour... I wonder what I'd find if I stuck with Opera longer?) are nothing compared to how un-maclike the UI is. If only because Opera uses non-standard and un-maclike UI elements and practises, I will not continue using this program."
—Jamie Kahn Genet, August 12, 2006
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the Carbon / Universal version for Mac OS X.
Version 9.5 beta 1 (Carbon / Universal, for Mac OS X - October 25, 2007) is available, making a huge number of changes, including the following:
- Following the release of Opera 9 last year, we re-wrote Opera's rendering engine for the coming Opera 9.5 release. As a result, Opera 9.5 contains more than a year's worth of speed, standards and performance improvements.
- Faster and less-memory intensive ECMAscript engine.
- A greatly improved layout algorithm.
- The font-rendering speed is improved significantly, along with the tiling of bitmaps.
- More responsive user interface.
- Internal benchmarks show up to 50 percent increase in speed compared to the previous core version in Opera 8. But, performance is more than just showing Web pages faster. Performance is about making your browsing experience more enjoyable and productive. In the past, we introduced much-loved and powerful features like Tabbed browsing, Mouse gestures, Fast Forward and Rewind, Speed Dial all designed to make you get more out of your time browsing the web.
- Synchronize: The preview - Log in just once. Then access your stuff anywhere, anytime. A new Internet revolution is under way and millions of people are now surfing their favorite Web sites every day. But they're not just browsing on their computers. Instead, they're browsing from practically any device: mobile phones, TVs, game consoles, PDAs. In fact, Internet users today tend to browse from various devices throughout the day. This alpha version of Kestrel contains a sneak preview with support for bookmarks, Speed Dial and personal bar synchronization between desktop versions of Opera. To check it out, just click File - Synchronize with My Opera and follow the instructions. Get your stuff anywhere!
- Full History Search - Have you ever read something interesting, but then later struggled to find your way back to that same small portion of a Web page? Now you can say goodbye to that problem. With Opera 9.5, we introduce full history search - search the complete Web pages you visited, but without requiring you to bookmark them. Unlike previous and other browser history searches which only look at the URLs of the pages you have visited, full history search searches the actual content of the Web pages you have visited. When typing a keyword, Opera 9.5 will automatically search the text of Web pages in your history. Moreover, we have directly integrated Full History Search into the URL field of the Opera 9.5 browser, making it extremely easy and quick to find what you're looking for.
- Status bar with Zoom and Image control - Opera's excellent zoom function and the bandwidth saving control of images are now made easily available on the Status bar. Tip: Add your own buttons like the developer console to the Status bar.
- Restore closed windows and changes in Speed Dial - Kestrel has an improved version of the much loved trash-can feature by adding support for opening closed windows, not only the closed tabs. You can also use the undo function now for Speed Dial.
- Improved BitTorrent performance - We added support for BitTorrent Peer Exchange to allow you to connect to more download hosts and improve your download speeds.
- Platform integration - We worked to make Kestrel feel even more integrated with your platform. Mac users can expect a nice new visual look and feel, while Opera for Linux will add a QT4 build, so you can easily adjust your skin to match the desktop. 64-bit Linux/FreeBSD packages will also be available.
- VoiceOver support - Kestrel adds support for Apple's screen reader "VoiceOver" found in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. This allows visually impaired Opera users to more easily use all of the features in the browser. For more details, please see: www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover
- Skin - Our skins in Opera 9.5 feature improved conformance to Apple Human Interface Guidelines. We have also added a new native skin with a brushed metal appearance, for those of you into that sort of look.
- Mail improvements - Kestrel features great stability and performance to Opera's integrated email client, Opera Mail. We've added a new mail backend and new IMAP support. Opera Mail is also much faster than in previous versions of Opera. Note to existing Opera Mail users: Please be aware that you will need to install this version on top of your existing Opera version to use this version for mail. Opera will then re-index all your email, something which can take several minutes if you have thousands of emails.
The beta page has full details of everything that has changed since version 9.24.
PGP Desktop
Current Version: 9.8 (February 8, 2008)
PGP, commonly known as "Pretty Good Privacy," is commonly used to secure Internet email communications. PGP Corporation produces a series of privacy-oriented products, including the PGP Desktop file encryption/decryption system, available in "Home" and "Professional" editions.
Version 9.8 adds/changes the following:
- PGP Desktop for Mac OS X is available in German and Japanese.
PGP Desktop is available for Mac OS X in several editions, including the following:
Pricing starts at $99 for the home edition. See the online store for more information.
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POPFile
Current Version: 1.0.1 (May 27, 2008)
From the POPFile home page: "POPFile is a free, automatic mail classification tool. Once properly set up and trained, it will scan all email as it arrives and classify it based on your training. You can give it a simple job, like separating out junk e-mail, or a complicated one, like filing mail into a dozen folders. Think of it as a personal assistant for your inbox." (The technical scoop: essentially, POPFile is a local proxy server for pre-processing mail between your "real" email server and your email client.) POPFile is written in Perl and runs on Mac OS X; the online Quick Start Guide explains what's involved in setting it up. Note: the author is looking for assistance in making the software easier to run on the Macintosh.
Version 1.0.1 adds/changes the following since version 1.0:
- When POPFile starts up it no longer complains about a missing IMAP file if IMAP has not been installed.
- Fixed a bug in the IMAP module that allowed for unintentional reclassification to the unclassified bucket.
- Fixed a bug that causes segmentation faults when displaying messages which have very long To, Cc or From headers in the POPFile UI.
- Fixed a bug that causes a few warnings during the corpus upgrade process.
- Add code to check for unexpected NULL characters in email messages (to avoid SQLite problems).
- POPFile's Brazilian Portuguese language file has been renamed. The new name does not include any spaces.
- The simplified and traditional Chinese language translations have been updated.
- POPFile's log file now includes entries showing when POPFile starts up and shuts down. This makes it easier to read the log file.
- The startup messages in the log file have been made easier to read by splitting the long entries into shorter lines.
- The IMAP module now issues a log message when it fails to connect to the server.
- Deletion