The Bottom Line
With its database-centered and multi-lingual approach, Magellan Pro is a very interesting and promising email client, but it can still use major improvements here and there.
Pros
- Magellan Pro offers flexible access to emails
- Strong international language support makes Magellan Pro a cosmopolitan
- Magellan Pro comes with built-in anti-spam filters
Cons
- Magellan Pro cannot send HTML emails
- The message editor included in Magellan Pro and its templates lack power
- Magellan supports POP accounts only
Description
- Magellan Pro lets you access and manage multiple POP email accounts.
- Magellan keeps mail in a database and provides user-definable, flexible views and virtual folders.
- Using content-based anti-spam filters, Magellan can spot and automatically delete junk mail.
- International language support with Unicode and MultiScript (right-to-left typing supported, too).
- Magellan Pro lets you search archived emails using Sherlock.
- Autoresponders can reply to certain mail automatically, and Magellan Pro also forwards selectively.
- Magellan Pro supports Mac OS 8/9/X.
Guide Review - Magellan Pro 1.5.2 - Email Program
Databases are ideal for storing data. They are efficient, fast and extremely flexible. Text files, by contrast, are inefficient, insecure, inflexible and take a long time to search. Yet most email is kept in plain text files, not databases.
Magellan Pro does away with this anachronism. All mail is kept in a database, and instead of folders you can define custom views and folders that show you exactly the messages you want to see.
Magellan Pro's other features aren't bad either. Take the comprehensive autoresponder functionality, for example. Magellan Pro also has extensive international language support, content-based spam filters and other small, but useful gimmicks.
Unfortunately, Magellan Pro users are limited to POP accounts, the message editor doesn't support HTML or text re-flowing, and templates cannot be used for replies.
