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emailman.software.clients.mac newsgroup (nntp or web access) to discuss Mac mail clients and utilities
emailman.fr.software.clients.mac newsgroup (newsreader or web access) to discuss French Mac OS mail clients and utilities (or French versions thereof)
comp.sys.mac.comm Usenet newsgroup

For other Mac Internet software, as well as more information about some of the programs listed below, see The Mac Orchard

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MailSteward by pubblog.com for Mac OS X. Will archive your mail.app mail into a relational database, import most mbox format (Eudora, Entourage and other) mail files, and will work with POP, IMAP, and .mac folders stored locally in mail.app.
Magellan by MAKI supports multiple POP accounts and works well with various languages/alphabets. (Japanese version)

Internet (POP3 or IMAP4, SMTP):

Balzac "is a new email application for OS X 10.3 and above, which 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."
Entourage 2004 and Entourage X from Microsoft do mail (POP and IMAP) and news (NNTP)
- Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac OS X : Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual Quickstart Guides) by Steve Schwartz, Peachpit Press (October, 2004)
- Mail Courier by Ligature Technologies for Mac OS X "will synchronize your emails between Entourage for Mac OS X and Palm Mail. By synchronizing your emails you will be able to take all your emails with you, read them, respond to them, or create new messages that will get sent on your next synchronization. Now included with version 1.1 is Ligature Mail, a simple mail viewing application that uses the Palm Mail format."
- Entourage Help Pages by Microsoft MVPs (volunteers recognized by Microsoft)
- Entourage Review in TidBITs
- Entourage FAQ at HolyMac!
- Entouage Menu by SomeDude "s a contextual menu plug-in that provides" various features.
- AppleScript Central and SoundSet Central for OE and Entourage
- Entourage Archiver for archiving emails and attachments using Microsoft Entourage 9.0
- Entourage mailing list archives (Entourage-Talk-On@lists.boingo.com -- click there to subscribe)
- microsoft.public.office.mac.entourage newsgroup
- books by Steve Schwartz
  - Entourage 2001 for Macintosh Visual Quickstart Guide
  - Running Office 2001 for Mac
Eudora by Qualcomm (POP3/IMAP4)
GNUMail.app "is a clone of NeXT/Apple's excellent Mail.app application. It uses the GNUstep development framework or Apple Cocoa, which is based on the OpenStep specification provided by NeXT, Inc.. GNUMail.app is licensed under the GPL, and the full sources of the application are available."
GyazMail "is developed from scratch to be simple, easy-to-use e-mail client with many features, based on Cocoa framework."
- GyazMail discussion forum (via news or web)
Hogwasher by Asar, Inc. is an e-mail and a news client.
- Hogwasher discussion forum (via news or web)
MacSOUP by Stefan Haller is an e-mail and a news client.
Magellan by MAKI supports multiple POP accounts and works well with various languages/alphabets. (Japanese version)
Mail by Apple.
Mailsmith by Bare Bones Software
- Mailsmith discussion forum (via news or web)
- Unofficial Mailsmith FAQA
- Mailsmith AppleScript Repository by Brouwer Media
- A few snippets of Applescript for Mailsmith by Terje Bless. One script demonstrates how to get the "to_recipients" of every message in a mailbox. The other script is a menu handler for the "Message-Reply to All" command. "Will automatically rewrap quoted text, set window options, remove quoted signatures, and automatically handle mailinglist subscription confirmation requests."
- Sweet P interface utility for Mailsmith by John Gruber provides Mailsmith with a floating button window. The buttons may be attached to compiled AppleScripts or make use of several pre-rolled actions baked into Sweet P, such as creating new messages, checking mail, and applying message labels.
Mozilla (and Netscape) products:
- SeaMonkey is a web broswer, mail and news client, and HTML editor (replaces the "Mozilla Suite")
- Thunderbird from the Mozilla team is a mail and news client for OS X, Windows, and Linux.
- Correo, based on Thunderbird
- See also Penelope below.
- The Netscape Unofficial FAQ covers all of the above products as well as Firefox browser from Mozilla (although to be honest, I don't see a "SeaMonkey" section)
Mulberry (open source) by Cyrus Daboo does multiple accounts, POP3/IMAP4/SMTP and PGP support. Also has Windows/Linux/Solaris versions. Also available is the Mulberry Administrator's Toolkit for Mac/Windows, implementing the IMSP and ACAP protocols.
Musashi comes in English or Japanese versions.
Odysseus from Infinity Data Systems aims to be a replacement for Eudora.
Outlook Express by Microsoft
- Unofficial Outlook Express FAQ by Mike
- MacOptions tutorial
- IE5 for Mac by Peachpit Press devotes half the book to Outlook Express.
- SomeDude's OE for Mac Stuff (various utilities/scripts/CM-modules)
- AppleScript Central and SoundSet Central for OE and Entourage
- Outlook Express Archiver for archiving emails and attachments using Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0
- MacOE-Talk-on@lists.boingo.com -- click there to subscribe to unofficial OE mailing list
- microsoft.public.internet.outlookexpress.mac newsgroup
- microsoft.public.internet.mail.mac newsgroup
Penelope from Qualcomm/Mozilla: "Qualcomm's intention with the Penelope project is to join the Eudora user experience with the Mozilla platform. We intend to produce a version of Eudora that is open source and based on Mozilla and Thunderbird. It's not our intention to compete with Thunderbird; rather, we want to complement it.
Qualcomm is committed to both preserving the Eudora user experience and to maintaining maximum compatibility, for both developers and users, with Thunderbird. It is our goal to build a single development community around Thunderbird and Eudora, so that both mailers advance faster than they previously have."
PopOver by Eidolon Software for Max OS X Server, Windows 95/NT supports multiple POP/IMAP accounts.
PowerMail by CTM Development (POP3 and IMAP4) (mailing lists)
- Eudora to Powermail conversion tool
QuickMail and QuickMail Office by Outspring Software

Traditionally unix mail clients for OS X:

Mutt
PINE:
- washington.edu (The makefile has an OS X target)
- osxgnu.org

Online Services:

Emailer by Claris
MailForward will forward up to 20 Hotmail or POP accts to another address.