Eudora, Eudora Light, MacSOUP, Nisus Email and PowerMail 4.2.1 can be downloaded from the email section of The Mac Orchard (a great reference site for Mac software, and one of the oldest, being online since 1995). You can download Classilla from its homepage. Netscape Mail module inside Netscape 7.0.2Īll releases of Netscape browsers are at the Netscape Archive.Netscape Mail module inside Netscape 6.2.3.Netscape Messenger (inside Netscape Communicator) 4.8.Classilla Mail module inside Classilla 9.1.This is the list of clients I have tried so far (in alphabetical order): I hunted, downloaded and installed as many decent classic Mac email clients as I could and tried to configure a Gmail account in all of them. Towards the end of last week, I decided to do a casual experiment. Unless you want to retrieve and manage your Gmail account(s), that is. Email is generally more manageable in a classic Mac OS environment, and gives much fewer headaches than Web browsing today. (This very blog renders correctly in the latest version of Classilla - 9.1 at the time of writing).īut this post is about email and email clients.

A notable exception is Classilla, currently under development and the only chance to have modern webpages display in a viewable, readable, usable manner for those who still use Mac OS 8.6 to 9.2. There are always tradeoffs, especially in this territory, since the choices you have are limited to browser versions which are no longer supported. Usually, those who want to try to browse around a bit will find that a combination of old browsers is mandatory, because sometimes iCab 2.99 renders a webpage less poorly than, say, Netscape Navigator 4.8 or Opera 5 handles some CSS more gracefully than Internet Explorer 5. The Web browsing is the trickiest part, because it has changed a lot in these last ten years: standards, technologies, security, plug-in management and the like. The two main problems for the classic Mac OS geeks who still want to use their vintage Macs on a daily basis are browsing the Web and doing email.

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