Bare Bones Software, Voice 617-778-3100, bbsw@barebones.com, http://www.barebones.com/
Requirements: Power Mac, Mac OS 9.1 or later or Mac OS X 10.1 or later
This full-featured Internet email client, built for both Mac OS X and OS 9, offers powerful filtering, searching, editing, and scripting capabilities. It features multithreaded processing, which allows you to simultaneously transmit, receive, and sort incoming and outgoing email while you compose or read messages. This disk image contains separate installers for OS 9 and X.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.1 or later
If you’re a Mail user (as in Apple’s email app) and happen to also share your Mac with others, this nifty app lets you create a separate set of mailboxes for each user in your system. Keep all of your peeps from peeping at your email—the app provides a login window for users to gain access to their mail accounts without forcing another user to logout of the entire system.
Requirements: Power Mac, Mac OS 9.x with CarbonLib or OS X 10.0 or later
Looking for a Web browser alternative? This open-source browser and toolkit package serves as the underpinning of Netscape 7, and gives you email support, too.
Netscape (OS X) 7.0—Freeware
Netscape Communications, http://www.netscape.com/
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac and Mac OS X or later
Netscape is one of 50 million browsers (OK, that’s an exaggeration) available for the Mac. This is the OS X version of Netscape’s standalone browser. This latest version features a spruced up interface, sidebar, tabbed windows, and more.
Requirements: Power Mac, Mac OS 8.5-9.x, 12MB RAM, 10MB free hard disk space
This nifty POP3/SMTP email app features an easy-to-use, Finder-like interface and integrates with other apps to compose and send mail. For example, you can compose a letter in your word processing app and send it via Nisus Email by simply dragging-and-dropping text onto its icon.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.1 or later
This nifty POP3/SMTP email app features an easy-to-use, Finder-like interface and integrates with other apps to compose and send mail. For example, you can compose a letter in your word processing app and send it via Nisus Email by simply dragging-and-dropping text onto its icon.
Requirements: Power Mac, Mac OS 8.6-9.x or OS X 10.1.5 or later
If Mail isn’t powerful enough for you and you’ve yet found a reason to shovel out a paycheck for M$ Office, PowerMail may be your answer. Its search capabilities alone blow the doors off of OS X’s built-in Mail app. PowerMail knows some other tricks that might impress you, too—try this 30-day demo and find out. This disk image contains installers for the Mac OS X and OS 8/9 30-day demos.
