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Feature Reviews: e-mail Clients

In planning for this issue we began asking months ago when the various developers of e-mail clients would be finished their respective releases: for Knightware, MR/2 ICE v1.0; for SouthSide Software, PMMail v1.5; and for InnoVal Systems Solutions, Post Road Mailer v1.05. The answers were mostly dates early in March. But of course, this is the software industry we're talking about; things never quite work out the way you plan and those dates slipped and then slipped more.

Finally, everyone did start nearing completion of their various clients, but not before we committed ourselves to an editorial cycle containing a review of those programs. Finally MR/2 ICE is nearing v1.0 (and may be at that point by the time you read this) and PMMail's code base is finished (SouthSide Software has publicly stated that it will be released on April 15). The only one missing is PRM v1.05.

We had originally hoped to have our hands on a copy of v1.05 in plenty of time to include it in this review but we were unable to accomplish this. Like PMMail v1.5, PRM v1.05 will almost certainly be released sometime in April, but at press time we were unable to get a firm date on exactly when. Because of this and since the code is still in flux we chose to leave it out of this round-up and focus instead on the presently available PRM v1.03a. Rest assured we will be doing a follow up review of PRM v1.05 as soon as it is released and we have sufficient time to evaulate it properly. Look for this and other reviews of InnoVal's Internet products in upcoming issues of e-Zine!.

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Reviews:

* MR2 ICE v0.99u2 - Chris Williams
The newest of commercially available OS/2 e-mail clients, MR/2 ICE has won a large following very rapidly. Chris has a look at the OS/2 notebook metaphor taken to extremes and tells us how good it is.

* PMMail v1.5 - Noah Sumner
Around for over a year now, PMMail has taken its first major leap to version 1.5. With a slew of enhancements to tell you about Noah gives you the ins and outs of this venerable program.

* Post Road Mailer Green Edition v1.03a - Richard Klemmer
Richard looks at the tried and true InnoVal offering in the e-mail arena. Around almost as long as PMMail has been, PRM has just as loyal a following among the OS/2 Internet community and our reviewer looks at why.

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* e-mail Client Feature Comparison Table - Check out our handy comparison table to quickly see which apps have what!

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