The Bottom Line
PowerMail is a great Mac email client with powerful filters, unparalleled search functionality and great overall usability.
PowerMail will be an acquired taste for many a user, though, and has its idiosyncrasies.
PowerMail will be an acquired taste for many a user, though, and has its idiosyncrasies.
Pros
- PowerMail offers powerful and flexible filters and integrates with SpamSieve
- High-speed message indexing and search makes accessing mail a snap in PowerMail
- PowerMail has strong international language support
Cons
- PowerMail lacks support for secure S/MIME email
- Many, sometimes esoteric, options and commands can overwhelm the casual user
- PowerMail's message editor could be more powerful
Description
- PowerMail lets you access multiple POP and IMAP accounts.
- Almost complete international language support through Unicode, uses the OS X spell checker.
- PowerMail offers powerful and flexible filter criteria and actions.
- New messages can be accessed quickly in PowerMail's "recent messages" window, and you can view emails in threads.
- PowerMail can manage mail directly at the POP server without downloading individual messages first.
- Integrates with PGP for public-key message encryption and offers SSL security for message transfer.
- PowerMail offers highly flexible and speedy indexed search, even for IMAP accounts (when cached).
- While reading mail with HTML formatting, PowerMail protects your privacy. Built-in Quick Look lets you view attachments.
- The PowerMail address book synchronizes with the system address book, and you can import and export mail safely.
- PowerMail supports Mac OS X 10.5/6/7.
