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February 1, 2007

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Correo gets Camino in your Thunderbird, Thunderbird in your Camino

Posted Feb. 1, ’07, 8:55 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Software

CorreoMy mother always taught me that there are three things you don’t bring up in polite conversation: politics, religion, and choice of email client. Otherwise peaceful people—the kind who, indeed, have never hurt flies—have known to be driven into paroxysms of rage over an offhand remark that Eudora is the email client for the 19th century.

There are a number of great choices of email client for OS X: Thunderbird, Entourage, and, of course, Mail.app. Add to that field a new contender: Correo. Based on technology from two popular open source projects, the afore-mentioned Thunderbird, and Cocoa-based web browser Camino, Correo intends to bring the Mac OS X specifics of the latter to the email abilities of the former.

Right now, Correo’s just at 0.1; it lacks a lot of the advanced features you’d might be accustomed to from more polished apps, but the basic functionality’s there, and it sure does look purty. It’s not likely to give Mail.app a run for its money in the short term, but by harnessing the power of open source it might be on its way to being a worthy competitor someday.

[via Hawk Wings]


1 Comments

Island in the Net Author Profile Page said:

I used Camino for a short while. I found it very similar to Firefox and it's lack of extension was begining to bother me so I swithched back to Firefox. I expect the same reaction to Correo.

February 3, 2007 5:25 AM

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