Re: Courier mail client free registration

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Outliners.com Message ID: 5153

Posted by sub
2006-02-05 12:52:35

> I’d realy like to switch to Thunderbird, but it doesn’t have some capabilities I can’t live without.

Interestingly, Outlook itself reached version 2003 before getting some of the features I came to love in Calypso and consider essential; here’s my short list:

- Ability to download only headers of messages

- Display status of messages, i.e. whether they are still in the server or not

- Bulk send, i.e. mail messages to a list, separately to each recipient

- View only text portion of messages, i.e. do not display HTML/RTF. Here lies the only Courier enhancement that I find really useful; it can strip HTML codes and display only the text content, for messages that don’t have a separate plain text component.

- Re-send messages, rather than having to forward them.

As far as I know Outlook still doesn’t have many of these; same goes for Thunderbird which I tried but I found moving/copying its mailbox files around very cumbersome (something which I need to do fairly often).

One thing that Outlook does have and I wish other mail clients copied, is drag-n-drop and true database operation, i.e. you can link to a message from an external application just by drag-n-dropping; IDEA! and UltraRecall can integrate with Outlook alone for this precise reason.

alx

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