Mac eMail Showdown: Which Program Delivers?

From Computerworld
For many of us, our e-mail client chose us rather than the other way around. Apple Inc.'s Mail sits in the dock of every new OS X-based Macintosh. If you're a Microsoft Office fan or liked Outlook Express back in the OS 9 days, inertia may have you using Entourage, Office's e-mail component. Or if you're partial to Web-based e-mail, such as Hotmail, Yahoo Mail or Gmail, you're probably using a browser by default to create, read and respond to e-mail.

But just because you didn't choose your e-mail program before, doesn't mean you can't choose one now. To get an idea of today's best of breed in Mac e-mail, I tried out the current versions of Apple's Mail (v. 2.1), Entourage 2004 (Microsoft) and Thunderbird 2 (a popular open-source e-mail client from Mozilla Corp. and kin to the Firefox browser).

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