The Apple Mail program resides on your hard drive. You paid for it when you purchased OS x or when you bought your computer. Running Apple Mail or any Mail client program doesn't cost anything. The cost is in your ISP.
In the For What It's Worth department I do not use Apple Mail, not because there is anything wrong with it but because I don't like having all my apps provided by Steve Jobs. I want a little diversity. I run PowerMail and am quite happy with it. I don't remember what I paid for it, but it wasn't much. There is a relatively new web browser out Fire Fox. I downloaded it (it's free) and use it on one of my computers. It is similar to Safari. And has a nice look to it. I stopped using Internet Explorer because Microsoft wasn't upgrading the program making it more secure, etc. Safari and Fire Fox both work quite well. Harry Wednesday, March 9, 20054:02 PMGreen, Cathycgreen1 at jefferson.k12.ky.us >Is there a cost for using Apple Mail, or are the costs run through whatever >ISP (in my case Bellsouth) one has? > >> ---------- >> From: Brian O'Neal >> Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2005 3:54 PM >> To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Subject: Re: MacGroup: RE: web browsers and email clients >> [bcc][faked-from] >> >> I use Apple Mail and Safari. I quit using explorer when Safari was >> introduced. I use Mozilla for web surfing on my PC, which is also >> available for the Mac. I used Entourage in the past. I started using >> Apples mail client just to try it out, and have continued to use it. I >> do a fair bit of email, more now than when I started with Mail. I have >> several rules and mailboxes for different lists. I don't see much >> difference in the two. Entourage may be a bit more full featured, but I >> wouldn't know it since I just write and receive mail. >> I'm sure both have more advanced features, but until I need them I am >> satisfied with Mail. >> >> Brian O' >> >> >> >> On Mar 9, 2005, at 3:38 PM, Green, Cathy wrote: >> >> > Greetings group, >> > Many apologies if this ground has already been covered, but.... >> > >> > What is the best web browser? And the best email client? >> > >> > I finally got my settings right to be able to go wireless on Bellsouth >> > DSL at home and I am dropping aol once I get my address book copied >> > into the address book that came with my G4 laptop running Panther (OS >> > 10.3). I don't like the Bellsouth email and I understand that I can >> > use any email client. >> > >> > But then I hear there are email programs that allow you to have email >> > going to different clients, where this program (like Incredimail, for >> > example) goes to all your inboxes and pulls all those emails into it. >> > I have MS Entourage as part of the MS Office 2004 for Mac bundle, but >> > don't know if that's the better of the options available. >> > >> > As for web browsers, I have Safari, Netscape and Explorer, but need >> > to trash stuff to free up space... Any insight would be most >> > appreciated. >> > >> > Cathy >> >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be March 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
