[JazzCatDRP]

What's the best email program for Mac OS 9?

[OreoCookie]

I was using Mail Smith back in the days. Very nice app and very stable. I could give you the licence key of mine as a present, if I find it I doubt I'll use it anytime soon.

However, I doubt you will find a mail program with an up-to-date feature set for OS 9. Back then, spam was not what it is today, although Mailsmith's filters were pretty powerful at that time.

[JazzCatDRP]

Thanks for the advice...that'd be great!

[waffffffle]

I used to like Entourage 2001. I had used them all at one point but I used Outlook Express for about a year before moving over to Entourage, only to move over to Mail.app on OS X since Entourage X wasn't available yet. I never looked back.

In general I remember that most OS 9 mail clients had difficulty with certain types of SMTP authentication. At my school neither of Microsoft's clients would work with their setup once they rolled out authenticated SMTP over SSL, even though both clients support that feature. Only Netscape 4 (and I guess 6, although no one used it) worked with their server. Entourage X had always worked. Mail.app required a very timely point release upgrade that luckily came just a few days before my campus made the switch.

[CharlesS]

I used to use Eudora. It was a bit bare-bones in terms of interface, but worked well enough. The automatic AppleDouble encoding of attachments was nice to avoid losing resource forks, back in the day.

[P]

The last version of Outlook Express was pretty good, but the best was probably Claris Emailer 2.0v3. That was in 98 or something though - I don't think it even had spam filters or other modern features. Eudora was always more feature complete, though I never liked that interface.

[bbales]

I loved Claris e-mailer. Worked great. I'd even give you my old disks, but I know one is broken. Maybe you could find it on ebay.

[larkost]

I would recomend an older build of Mozilla, namely WaMCom.

[production_coordinator]

As much as I hate Microsoft, Outlook Express isn't bad at all...

[NeXTLoop]

Here's another vote for Eudora. It had, and still has some features, that no other program has ever implemented. One in particular was scheduled mail sending, where you could select in advance what time you wanted a message to be sent.

Since transitioning to OS X, Eudora's interface just doesn't cut it anymore, so I use Mail. But they're rewriting Eudora using Cocoa so, who knows....