Time to ditch Outlook? Eight alternatives tested
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Calypso
Now the property of Rose City Software, Calypso was originally developed by Micro Computer Systems. While the version tested here is freeware, the next version -- Courier 3.5 is Shareware (you can purchase Courier for about AU$40 if 3.3 is your choice).
The user interface is reasonably attractive but nothing exotic. The idea was to produce an e-mail client with all the things you really need without a bunch of unnecessary bells and whistles. Calypso's mailbox format is purposely different to the various standard formats in order to offer protection from worms. Unfortunately, this also means you will need to transfer any addresses from your existing e-mail client to Calypso manually.
Calypso still comes with handy e-mail features that we all know and love, such as auto-response messages, message templates, and spell check -- the latter supports multiple languages. The toolbar can be customised, and Calypso also offers mail filtering, optional HTML support, and address auto-completion. PGP encryption support is available, but it only runs on Microsoft Windows, and requires 6MB of disk space.
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Have seen mail merging done without any agents of thrid party app's, its in the help.
Completely omitted were many other Open Source utilities available to package for Windows using the Cywin compiler.
Why even mention Pine and its availability on Unix if the Linux community is being ignored here? The author should wake up and smell the Open Source.
another alternative
free software is not the same as freeware
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Below is an <a href="http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/categories.html#freeware">explination</a> from the Free Software Foundation's website:<br>
The term ``freeware'' has no clear accepted definition, but it is commonly used for packages which permit redistribution but not modification (and their source code is not available). These packages are not free software, so please don't use ``freeware'' to refer to free software.
Evolution
No we haven't
Yes, I've heard of groupwise.
hackers,spammers and wiretaps
Incredimail
I found it to be fantastic and I seam to miss out on a lot of the bugs and nasties that float around.
Well that was until I paid for the gold version this year 07.
Had heaps of problems with the bought one but the free is great go get it wish I could go back to the free but ones bought you cant go back.
no one email client is like Outlook Express
many and many times I searched for a valid alternative to Outlook Express but I found that there is not an available equivalent software.
I especially refer at the fact that with Outlook Express I can use very powerful features, such as signatures and identities. With signatures I gain a lot of time because I can save in files unlimited predefined answers for common questions customers send me about my business.
And with identities I can manage several emails account in an unique email client.
In my knowledge, no other email client has these features. If you know someone, please notify me.
Depends on your server configuration
Barca Pro
Each calendar entry has to be INDIVIDUALLY imported, and that was the nail in the coffin.
Otherwise its a great program when starting off.
Cheers