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At Last - The Upgrade to Replace Courier 3.5 is HERE
RoseCity Software is pleased to announce that the long-awaited upgrade for Courier users is finally ready for release. The new flagbearer that will carry Courier-specific features forward, plus provide many other features, is PocoMail 4.8, which has just been released after seven months of beta test. PocoMail was already a significant and popular email client, and is now more feature-rich than ever, now that it embraces several key Courier functions. A list of major features that will be of interest to Courier users is on our website at http://rosecitysoftware.com/pocomail . Here are some of them:
- Easy switching between plain text and HTML, with even more options than Courier provided
- Multiple search options, even more powerful than Courier's
- Multiple font and character set options, similar to Courier's
- Ability to color-code responses and flag email, similar to Courier's
- Ability to edit subject line and content of received and sent mail, similar to Courier's
- Extended ability to manage mail directly from server, if desired, an extention of what Courier provided
- Periodic email backup service, similar to Courier's
- Powerful filter capability, similar in some ways and stronger in other ways to Courier
- No dependence on Internet Explorer's HTML engine, reducing exposure to viruses
- VBscript not supported, further reducing exposure to malware
- Spelling dictionaries for 20+ languages
- SSL support. Yes, it works fine with Gmail...
- IMAP support. Although not 100%, IMAP works better than in Courier and, in online-to-server mode, you can copy mail between folders. This is a definite improvement.
Yes, we could go on and on and on about the new services. True, some Courier features are gone. No longer can you select a WAV file to play when mail from a given account comes in. The bulk send and blind send features are no longer available as features (although both can be functionally achieved), along with a few others... Still, we are convinced that this is the best email client available today.
Although more features are listed at our Rosecity website, the MAJOR benefit is that you will have direct and immediate support as you migrate from Courier 3.x to PocoMail 4.8. I developed a Quick Start Guide that will help you and this can be downloaded from the http://rosecitysoftware.com/pocomail site. This guide is also referenced in the PocoMail help file. That is significant, so let me explain. RoseCity Software and Pocomail have been working hand-in-hand for over a year to bring this product to you. In becoming a customer of PocoMail, you are joining a community that has been preparing for you. The tech support staff members have Courier 3.5 on their computers. I and the lead technical specialist from PocoMail, Tomas Drahokoupil, will be monitoring our BBS and the Yahoo forum throughout the upgrade period to assist people migrating to PocoMail 4.8.
To upgrade: PocoMail sales team have offered a special upgrade price of $19.95 good until December 31, 2009. We encourage all Courier users to take advantage of this price reduction. Visit the website for the details.
NOTE: This upgrade offer expires on December 31, 2009. We want to help all Courier users to make this positive migration to PocoMail 4.8, but the price reduction expires on midnight of the last day of 2009. Courier users can always upgrade, but the cost benefit expires at midnight on the last day of 2009.
FURTHER NOTE: We don't want to discourage ongoing tips and help for Courier 3.5 users here. We hope we can all use this forum together for help to Courier and Calypso users and also for help to users who are migrating to PocoMail 4.8.
RoseCity Software is pleased to announce that the long-awaited upgrade for Courier users is finally ready for release. The new flagbearer that will carry Courier-specific features forward, plus provide many other features, is PocoMail 4.8, which has just been released after seven months of beta test. PocoMail was already a significant and popular email client, and is now more feature-rich than ever, now that it embraces several key Courier functions. A list of major features that will be of interest to Courier users is on our website at http://rosecitysoftware/courier . Here are some of them:
- Easy switching between plain text and HTML, with even more options than Courier provided
- Multiple search options, even more powerful than Courier's
- Multiple font and character set options, similar to Courier's
- Ability to color-code responses and flag email, similar to Courier's
- Ability to edit subject line and content of received and sent mail, similar to Courier's
- Extended ability to manage mail directly from server, if desired, an extention of what Courier provided
- Periodic email backup service, similar to Courier's
- Powerful filter capability, similar in some ways and stronger in other ways to Courier
- No dependence on Internet Explorer's HTML engine, reducing exposure to viruses
- VBscript not supported, further reducing exposure to malware
- Spelling dictionaries for 20+ languages
- SSL support. Yes, it works fine with Gmail...
- IMAP support. Although not 100%, IMAP works better than in Courier and, in online-to-server mode, you can copy mail between folders. This is a definite improvement.
Yes, we could go on and on and on about the new services. True, some Courier features are gone. No longer can you select a WAV file to play when mail from a given account comes in. The bulk send and blind send features are no longer available as features (although both can be functionally achieved), along with a few others... Still, we are convinced that this is the best email client available today.
Although more features are listed at our Rosecity website, the MAJOR benefit is that you will have direct and immediate support as you migrate from Courier 3.x to PocoMail 4.8. I developed a Quick Start Guide that will help you and this can be downloaded from the http://rosecitysoftware/courier site. This guide is also referenced in the PocoMail help file. That is significant, so let me explain. RoseCity Software and Pocomail have been working hand-in-hand for over a year to bring this product to you. In becoming a customer of PocoMail, you are joining a community that has been preparing for you. The tech support staff members have Courier 3.5 on their computers. I and the lead technical specialist from PocoMail, Tomas Drahokoupil, will be monitoring our BBS and the Yahoo forum throughout the upgrade period to assist people migrating to PocoMail 4.8.
To upgrade: PocoMail sales team have offered a special upgrade price of $19.95 good until December 31, 2009. We encourage all Courier users to take advantage of this price reduction. Visit the website for the details.
NOTE: This upgrade offer expires on December 31, 2009. We want to help all Courier users to make this positive migration to PocoMail 4.8, but the price reduction expires on midnight of the last day of 2009. Courier users can always upgrade, but the cost benefit expires at midnight on the last day of 2009.
FURTHER NOTE: We don't want to discourage ongoing tips and help for Courier 3.5 users here. We hope we can all use this forum together for help to Courier and Calypso users and also for help to users who are migrating to PocoMail 4.8.
I am so pleased to be able to make this announcment after so many months of effort.
david
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I tried using it on and off for years but it was so full of bugs it was undependable. I actually had to use a "backup" email client to get the emails that Pocomail would not retrieve.
Heck, it couldn't even handle IMAP properly, something Thunderbird has been doing fine for years.
I suppose I'll give it a try and hope for the best but I'm not thrilled as I'd thought I would be.
I tried using it on and off for years but it was so full of bugs it was undependable. I actually had to use a "backup" email client to get the emails that Pocomail would not retrieve.
Heck, it couldn't even handle IMAP properly, something Thunderbird has been doing fine for years.
I suppose I'll give it a try and hope for the best but I'm not thrilled as I'd thought I would be.
If IMAP is your only concern, then OE or Tbird are good choices.... but no email client does the list of features in the announcement other than PocoMail 4.8. It's a matter of choices. We don't expect everyone to want PM 4.8, but if the features listed are important, then there are no other choices. Just my thoughts, of course...
AND... a big issue is that PocoMail 4.8 has so many features that you will not learn them in an hour or two. You really need to give yourself a week or two. I've been using it for a year and each week I discover another feature that I had missed....
david
Mulberry was a tool of choice for IMAP I kept overhearing on various places (though it was quite some time ago, and it has since gone through its own share of problems).
There was a period in the past when Pocomail not downloading some emails was being reported relatively often, but that has been now diminished if not corrected completely. (The problem was that Pocomail does message preprocessing which is a bit vulnerable to message being formatted in line with standards.)
Welcome, Tomas, to the Courier and Calypso alumni fan club. Thank you Tomas, Arie, David, Joe, and everyone for all your hard work. I will try PocoMail today.
Welcome, Tomas, to the Courier and Calypso alumni fan club. Thank you Tomas, Arie, David, Joe, and everyone for all your hard work. I will try PocoMail today.
Enthusiastically,
Dan
Thanks, Dan. Tomas has been a BIG help to me on the Yahoo group, where the questions and discussion seem to be non stop... I've been using PocoMail now for a year and I won't go back to Courier. It's been very solid.
david
I have 2 Gmail IMAP accounts set up. One issue I see is that in addition to getting new messages in the IMAP's inbox, it's also downloading them to the local inbox.
Is there a way to prevent them from being sent to the local inbox?
One issue I see is that in addition to getting new messages in the IMAP's inbox, it's also downloading them to the local inbox.
Is there a way to prevent them from being sent to the local inbox?
Yes that's possible, in account setup (press F3), please make sure both Check Mail and Timed Check are unticked.
