Macintosh E-Mail Programs: Letters (free and open source) <http://github.com/ccgus/letters> Zimbra (free) Email, contact, calendar, and document management http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html Correo (free and open source) GONE? POP and IMAP email client. Correo blends technology from two popular Mozilla projects, Camino and Thunderbird, to create a polished native Macintosh application. http://nkreeger.com/correo/ PowerMail ($58) http://www.ctmdev.com GyazMail ($18) http://www.gyazsquare.com/gyazmail/ This e-mail program specializes in speed, stability & data protection. A lot of people prefer its user interface, which is very similiar to Outlook Express' and Claris Emailer's. It's biggest claim to fame is that it stores all of its e-mail messages (according to RFC spec) in individual files on your hard drive - so you don't have to worry about corruption of a huge monolithic e-mail database. QuickMail ($35) http://www.outspring.com/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=62 CleverCactus (free, JAVA based, includes PIM functionality) http://www.clevercactus.com/pro.html Namera (free? gone?) http://homepage.mac.com/namera/ SweetMail (free) http://www.tobiasjung.net/html/sm_download_en.php http://www.tobiasjung.net/html/sweetmail.php http://www.tobiasjung.net/html/sm_download.php Balzac (free) http://www.mecanisme.net/software/balzac/ Nisus Email ($30) http://www.nisus.com/NisusEmail/ Thunderbird (free, open source) http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/ Mulberry (free) http://www.mulberrymail.com/index.shtml Musashi ($25) http://notlong.com/stats/?nickname=woiti&password=dmn-jrqm http://woiti.notlong.com http://nuzeer.notlong.com MailSmith (FREE) http://www.mailsmith.org/ MailPlane ($25) (front-end for gMail) http://mailplaneapp.com/ Ginko (FREE, open source) http://www.objectpark.org/Ginko.html GNUMail (FREE, open source) http://www.collaboration-world.com/gnumail/ Eudora (free, but no longer being developed) http://www.eudora.com/email/index.html MailForge $20 (formerly Odysseus) (successor to Eudora) <http://www.infinitydatasystems.com/mailforge/index.html> Eudora OSE (formerly Penelope) (FREE) https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_OSE https://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope MailPlane (Mac front end for Gmail) http://mailplane.en.softonic.com/mac Entourage (comes with Microsoft Office) http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/entourage2008/default.mspx#/ interacting_ Magellan Pro ($35) http://www.makienterprise.com/magellanpro/magellanpro.html HogWasher (A supremely powerful newsgroup reader combined with full e- mail capabilities. $49) http://www.asar.com/hogwasher.html PolarBar Mailer (A FREE open-source Java e-mail client that is surprisingly full-featured. Both POP and IMAP support.) http://www.polarbar.net/ Pine/Alpine (free) http://www.washington.edu/pine/ http://www.washington.edu/alpine/ http://www.osxgnu.org/software/pkgdetail.html?project_id=228&cat_id=203 http://www.madboa.com/geek/pine-macosx/ MacSOUP ($20) http://home.snafu.de/stk/macsoup/index.html It has offline newsreading, powerful killfile and filtering with regular expressions, intuitive graphical thread view, true references based threading Postbox ($40) http://www.postbox-inc.com/ Review: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/09/tc50-postbox-takes-on-outlook- mac-mail-with-smarter-faster-email-client/ ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html ___________________________________________