Obtaining your own copy of a mail program

If you are using a public system such as the PWF, you will find that various mail programs have been installed for your use. To use Hermes Webmail from your own machine all you need is to run any Web browser (such as Mozilla, Safari or Internet Explorer). If you want to run any other mail program on your own machine, you will need to obtain and configure it.

Thunderbird

Thunderbird is available free for Windows, Linux or MacOS X systems.

Eudora

Eudora has moved to open source development. In 2007 the developers, QUALCOMM, ended sales of Paid mode Eudora. Sponsored mode continues to be available in version 7.1 for Windows and 6.2.4 for Mac, which can be downloaded from the developers' website. New installations can only be run in either sponsored mode (a nearly full version with advertisements), or light mode (fewer features).

Alpine, Pine and PC Pine

Alpine is the successor to, and based on, Pine, It is available from the University of Washington

If you do need to run Pine it too can be obtained from the University of Washington, but note that it is no longer under active development.

Mulberry

The current, free, version of Mulberry is available for download from the developer's website.

Outlook

Outlook is a part of Microsoft Office, and is normally found installed on new Windows machines along with the operating system.

Apple Mail

Apple Mail is installed on Macs running Mac OS X along with the operating system.

The title of this document is: Obtaining your own copy of a mail program
URL: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/obtaining.html