Balzac

Name: Balzac
Price: 19.00 $
Rating: 4.5 (5 reviews)

1.0b29

30 October 2007

Email client with accelerated search capabilities.

Overview

Balzac is an email program that aims to provide a simple view on your mail while allowing fast, sophisticated searches of past correspondence. It has been written to utilize all the advanced services available in OS X; from the keychain and address book to the built in spell-checker.

Features include :

Dynamic views on your mail (ie 'Smart Folders')
A history menu much like a web-browser
User defined categories - messages can be in several categories at once
An inbox which shows you messages from the last few days
Fast searches on header fields or text content of all messages
Customize the way you view your mail with HTML templates for list views and message views
Send custom HTML email using templates
Security features for viewing HTML email
Supports Growl notifications

What's new in Balzac

Version 1.0b29:

Fixed bug in whitelister dealing with numeric HTML attributes
Removed spurious status messages in Leopard
Worked around date parsing bug in Leopard causing inbox to display as empty

9 Balzac Reviews

jeffswritingworld

08 July 2016

For Macupdate Admin - this is a dead download link, and the developers website no longer exists,

Version 1.0b29

SOS! Please add the option to sort all messages in the inbox by EMAIL ADDRESS, not just by "sender." Why is this not a standard sorting option? I run a business, and deal with hundreds of different customers every day. I need to sort by email address! I'm sure that countless other businesses would LOVE this sorting option. Thank you!

Version 1.0b17

Beautiful UI, very stable, could use imap support and still keep it free. also i have a problem where i dont need to add my smtp username and passoword to send mail out becuase I have done it in Apple's Mail application but in Balzac it always asks me to give the username or password. Can anyone help me?

Version 1.0b14

1 answer(s)

Anonymous

06 November 2005

Hi, this should be fixed in the latest version, let me know if not. Thanks for the feedback.

Version 1.0b17

the blue candy strip indicating connection is visually annoying. Has potential. Don't like the Platinum finish. Lionheart

Version 1.0b12

An email app without IMAP support is no email app at all. This should be priority number one. Number zero.

Version 1.0b12

1 answer(s)

Anonymous

30 March 2005

"An email app without IMAP support is no email app at all. This should be priority number one." I think many of the people who demand IMAP are confused about what the IMAP protocol provides. It is not an upgrade to POP, it is a different scheme for accessing emails, which presupposes a single server accessible at all times, and allows you to store information about which emails have been read/moved to a different folder etc and share it between multiple clients. This can be more elegant than POP if you share several computers and wish to synchronise moving messages between folders etc. As Balzac doesn't use folders, this is of limited use. I am hoping however to map flavours to custom IMAP flags at some point in the future, at which point the app will support IMAP. I am planning IMAP support for version 1.1 (the underlying library supports it so it won't be too hard to add). Many people use POP quite happily on servers which also provide IMAP - IMAP is not suitable for all situations, and if you locally cache messages becomes very similar to POP (apart from the folder synching, which as I explained is not relevant to Balzac).

Version 1.0b12

Looks nice, I'd like to use it. I like the idea of the "Flavors". It's missing a couple things that would make me not use it - LDAP searching for addresses and IMAP. I just don't understand why all these e-mail clients keep coming out without IMAP. BAH! I haven't really be able to use it yet. It just hung when I asked it to connect to the Exchange server here at work.

Version 1.0b11

1 answer(s)

Mechanism Design Ltd

24 March 2005

Hi Phil, IMAP support will come in a future version - in fact for this Application (precisely because it doesn't use folders) I wanted to think about how best to add it, and how best to map folders on the server to flavours. If a flavour is added or removed from a message on the computer, should it affect the server at all? That kind of thing. Many people don't use IMAP and are happy with POP (I'm aware lots do as well); POP is not necessarily inferior, depends on your needs. I should have added it to the poll though... As to the exchange server, if you could give me any details that would be helpful, as that's what the beta is to try to catch. Were you just receiving mail on that account? Was there anything in the console log? Did you have any messages at all flash up? When you say hung, do you mean you got a beachball of death or it just didn't connect? Presumably it didn't crash. Did you get any messages at all? I assume you were trying to connect via POP? If you have more details you can email me (presumably not using Balzac with the Exchange Server : ). Kenny

Version 1.0b11

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