Correo 0.2: Camino-flavoured email client advances
Four months ago, Nick Kreeger announced the first release of Correo, a new open source email client for Mac — “Mac essence, Gecko powered” — that “blends technology from two popular Mozilla projects, Camino and Thunderbird, to create a polished native Macintosh application”.
The second public beta has just been released. Correo 0.2 adds several nice new features: Keychain support, Address Book integration, the ability to open messages in a separate window, attachment support, better message list support for IMAP accounts and a collapsable message header and attachment view.
Although Nick readily admits it is a work in progress, the interface already shows Camino’s good looks:
Address Book integration is the big leap forward for usability:
Also nice is the “auto-complete feature” in the To: and Cc: fields:
Underneath the polished exterior, it’s all Thunderbird. The account manager and new account dialogs will be instantly familiar to Thunderbird users.
And the rendering is all Gecko too, as the following ironic screenshot of the new “single window” mode illustrates:
Nick hopes to implement features as the app’s development unfolds, including, plugin capability (to allow development of extensions such as PDA synchronization) and a tabbed window interface.
You can download Correo 0.2 
from Nick’s web site and keep up-to-date with new builds through his blog .
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Tags: Address Book, Camino, email, gecko, Mozilla, not apple mail, not mail.app, thunderbird
April 12th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
I’m very excited for this project. At 0.2 it’s already a great start!
April 13th, 2007 at 12:23 am
It looks great– but I’ve been wondering what Correo and Thunderbird offer that Mail doesn’t. When I glance at screenshots such as these, I can’t see any distinguishing features from Mail– and what good is an alternative just for the sake of using something different?
I know there are folks who principially use open-source whenever possible, even if it means forsaking an application that came free with your computer. But what about the rest of us– what do Correo and Thunderbird offer that I can’t get with Mail?
April 13th, 2007 at 4:46 am
Consistency if you also use it on a PC.
Extensibility.
Theme-ability.
HTML composition.
Etc.
It does have some things that Mail doesn’t, but the converse is also true.
April 13th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Well, Jonathan lost me there.
1. “Consistency if you also use it on a PC”
Correo site: “The second release of the Mozilla and cocoa hybrid “.
Comment: Since when has Cocoa run on Windows?
2. “Theme-ability”
Correo site: No “themes” listed as available.
Comment: Where did Jonathan pull that one from?
3. “Extensibility”
Correo site: “There are many planned features … including plugin capability … to allow development of extensions …”
Comment: Since when did “planned” extensibility become extensibility?
4. “HTML composition”
Correo site: No claim to do HTML composition.
Question: Does it? And even if it does, so does Mail.app, so how is this “something that [Ed Eubanks] can’t get with Mail”?
5. “Etc”
Comment: What precisely does Jonathan mean by “Etc.”?
April 13th, 2007 at 5:52 am
Quote (my emphasis): “It looks great– but I’ve been wondering what Correo and ***Thunderbird*** offer that Mail doesn’t.”
I should have been more explicit, but I was meaning Thunderbird on which Correo is based. I would assume that the aim with Correo is to match the feature set of Thunderbird eventually.
April 13th, 2007 at 5:53 am
FWIW, Mail most definitely does not have a toolset that will let you perform HTML composition of e-mails.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:01 am
Any chance of adding support for tabs?
April 13th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Support for nested IMAP folders would be a good start.
April 13th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Shame that TLS/SSL is not implemented yet, I think, as it doesn’t seem to work with IMAP and SMTP using both which means I’m unable to use it… I was hoping for a good Mac client which did a good IMAP implementation…
April 15th, 2007 at 2:52 am
For me, the switch to Thunderbird at work was because I’m still on 10.3.9. I wanted labels, smart folders, ability to send an email and get notified when someone opens it, ability to separate the inbox by days (today, yesterday, past week, etc), the ‘attachment reminder’ plugin and a few other awesome plugins.
Correo looks exciting because it’s like mail, but with a developer that may be a bit more responsive to what the Mac community wants. Like tab interface, iCal integration, labels and other wishful features.
April 26th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Personally, I haven’t had any problems with Mail.App’s IMAP implementation. I’ve been using it with two different IMAP accounts for quite some time, and it all works great for me. With add-ons like MailTags, MailForward, MailAttatchment, MailAct-On etc, Mail.App does most things you could want.
The one thing that lets Thunderbird down, and makes it completely unusable for me, is the lack of address book integration. If this ever gets rectified, then I would consider using it purely for the additional extensions that are available. But it’s a non-starter for me until that time. Plaxo have a plugin available that could solve this problem, but that’s still only working with TB 1.5.
June 29th, 2007 at 2:54 am
Any hope for an alternative to Apple Mail is welcome. I’m reaching my wit’s end with this sorry application. Unfortunately, it does not look like there has been much progress past version 0.2 in Correo.
July 6th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Man, for a .2 app … my only comment is “holy shit, I hope he keeps at this!”
It’s a few keystrokes and preferences away from replacing Mail.
July 7th, 2007 at 1:25 am
I agree, but there appears to have been little movement since 0.2. Is this a dead project?
July 31st, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Great, just what the world needs(not), another email application, why can’t people just support Thunderbird instead of making their own hack version.