Old-school email

May 2, 2006 11:20 AM

I'm looking for an extremely old-school feel, lightweight email client for XP.

I want it to be as close to BlitzMail as possible.

Perhaps even a really old version of an email client would be fitting?

posted by mr.dan to Computers & Internet (12 answers total)

An old version of The Bat! might be right up your alley.
posted by jedrek at 11:26 AM on May 2, 2006

Response by poster: I also really like PC-Pine. Can it be used with any POP3 email?
posted by mr.dan at 11:28 AM on May 2, 2006

Check out the options over at TinyApps.

I tried i.Scribe a few years ago and was quite impressed at what they packed into 500K. It's mentioned at the link above.
posted by chuma at 11:33 AM on May 2, 2006

I'll second The Bat! I used it as my personal mail client for a long time. Cheap and simple.
posted by Succa at 11:46 AM on May 2, 2006

I also really like PC-Pine. Can it be used with any POP3 email?

Yes.
posted by deadfather at 11:51 AM on May 2, 2006

Thirding The Bat!, it's been ages since I used windows but back then it was the only decent option.
posted by fvw at 11:54 AM on May 2, 2006

That screenshot of Blitzmail reminds me a lot of Mulberry, a cross-platform Mac/Win/Linux client which is now defunct. You can download the last version for Windows here.
posted by zsazsa at 12:33 PM on May 2, 2006

I like nPop. Source is available, as well.
posted by brool at 12:34 PM on May 2, 2006

Sylpheed.

(My choice? Pine.)
posted by blag at 1:25 PM on May 2, 2006

cygwin and mutt?
posted by Mean Mr. Bucket at 1:39 PM on May 2, 2006

You could try Pegasus Mail. I used to it awhile back and it might be what you're looking for.
posted by purephase at 4:08 PM on May 2, 2006

Eudora? The light version seems like it hasn't been changed it about 10 years anyway! :)
posted by ranglin at 5:12 PM on May 3, 2006