Correo 0.3: Mac Essence, Gecko Powered
Looking for an alternative to Apple’s Mail but don’t like Mozilla Thunderbird’s non-native interface? You’re in luck, because developer Nick Kreeger has released Correo 0.3. Correo is an up and coming open-source email client designed to bring the power of Mozilla Thunderbird under the hood of Aqualicious interface.
Correo’s goals are similar to the Camino project. Like Camino bundled the power of Firefox into a native OS X application, Correo borrows key Thunderbird technologies while simultaneously leveraging the power of OS X. For example: Correo uses OS X technologies like Address Book for contact management and Keychain for password storage yet uses the same widely praised Gecko rendering engine found inside Thunderbird.
Still in the early stages of development, new features in Correo 0.3 include better IMAP support (For example, subfolders load correctly) and international character encoding. And of course, Correo now supports Leopard.
In an age of perpetual beta products (I’m looking at you Gmail), it’s easy to assume that all beta products are happily supported and rock stable. Not so. Correo is very much a preview release. You won’t find much support in Correo. I still think it’s quite usable though.
Correo is free and can be downloaded from the developer’s website.
It’s about time somebody created an email equivalent of Camino.
Sure !
Welcome Correo. Be the Camino-like mail client.
A french version would be appreciate
“… uses the … widely praised Gecko rendering engine …”
Huh? Has MacApper come across an HTML email that could not be rendered by Mail.app yet? – because I haven’t.
Sorry, but while it’s nice that there is an alternative email client under development, I don’t see the HTML rendering engine as a big selling point.
Have you tried browsing in Safari recently? There’s almost nothing on the web that WebKit can’t handle. And if there is it’s usually down to advanced AJAX JavaScript. So I guess WebKit – which is also used by Mail.app – may be a fraction behind with JavaScript. But, frankly, anyone’s who’s running JavaScript in his email client must be nuts.