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Program
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Price
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Web site
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AppleScript support
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Entourage
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Only available as part of the Microsoft Office suite ($400)
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www.microsoft.com/mac/products/entourage2004/entourage2004.aspx
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Excellent. Microsoft Entourage
supports many more features than Mac OS X Mail
does. For example, you can use Entourage's
find command to locate people who have a
particular email suffix (like @apple.com).
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Eudora
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Free with advertisements, or $50 without advertisements
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www.eudora.com
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Decent. Eudora supports a fair
number of AppleScript commands that Mail and Entourage do (like
reply), but Eudora doesn't
support some of the more advanced commands (like connect
to, for automatically downloading
your email).
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Mail
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Free, included with Mac OS X
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www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail/
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Good. Mail allows you to automate
sending, receiving, and replying to emailall with AppleScript.
Plus, you can use Mail to run scripts
automatically when new email arrives.
Still, Mail's AppleScript
commands are quite complicated compared with, say, Entourage or
Mailsmith.
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Mailsmith
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$99; free 30-day demo available for download
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www.barebones.com/products/mailsmith
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Exceptional!
Brought to you by the makers of BBEdit (see next page),
Mailsmith is a powerful and extremely scriptable email
applicationso scriptable, in fact, that you can run
AppleScripts when you click existing Mailsmith
menu items, allowing you to customize the menu bar itself.
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