Columba
Columba is an email client written in Java, featuring a user-friendly graphical interface with wizards and internationalization support. It's a powerful email management tool with features to enhance your productivity and communication.
| Tags | Communications Email Email Clients (MUA) |
|---|---|
| Licenses | MPL |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | Java |
Recent releases
- 06 Jun 2006 08:26
Changes: This version features full vCard contact model support, a FlexDock based docking framework, integrated scripting support for Groovy, Beanshell, and Jython, initial prototypes for calendar and chat components, a new default Tango iconset, improved IMAP caching, plugin-based message rendering, and many bugfixes.
- 18 Sep 2005 13:02
Changes: This version features native Mac OS X support for opening file attachments and the Web browser. It tightly integrates SpamAssassin. Cut/copy/paste work as expected. The selection handling was improved, and there are many speedups for Virtual Folders and IMAP folders. Many components were cleaned up and dozens of bugs fixed.
- 12 Jun 2005 12:32
Changes: This version features revamped vFolder support, which are now actively monitoring folder changes. The message viewer shows attachments inline, and a new filter toolbar enables quick searches in the message list. Groovy was added as another interpreter plugin, which makes it possible to extend Columba in the Groovy language. Additionally, many components were cleaned up and over 60 bugs were fixed since the last major release. This is the last release candidate before the final 1.0 release, scheduled this summer.
- 20 Dec 2004 08:50
Changes: This release adds support for i18n naming of IMAP mailbox names. The message preview can be hidden; the user can choose what headers he wants to see. Recent message are now highlighted in the mailbox view. Columba registers itself as default email client on win32. There is now VCard importing/exporting for the addressbook component.
- 18 Aug 2004 05:29
Changes: This version features an integrated bayesian spam filter, proxy support, sorting of folders, an improved message composer interface, secure connections using SSL/TLS support, improved Win32 integration, and profile management.
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Recent commentsLinux and Windows with dual-boot
I dual boot with Linux and XP since I sometimes need to work in Linux and sometimes in Windows. I just discovered Columba yesterday and after some playing around discovered that I could use one copy of Columba on a shared FAT32 partition and access all of my email(including local mail folders) from both Linux and XP! This was always the biggest annoyance of dual booting to me - not having access to my address book and mail folders when I was working in the other OS. This is one awesome feature! Two thumbs up!
To do this I simply created a symlink for the .columba folder that redirects it to my shared partition. For Windows I used a utility called 'MakeLink.exe', which is a free download on the internet, and it allows you to create a symbolic link in Windows as well.
Nice work
I really like this email client, one of the nicest java gui apps I've tried yet.
Top stuff, keep up the great work!
cheers
drewbian
Re: NoClassDefFoundError: org/w3c/dom/Node
> What jar do you expect in the class path
> to resolve the
> "NoClassDefFoundError:
> org/w3c/dom/Node"?
When using JRE1.3 and prior be sure to add
ext/xalan.jar:ext/jaxp.jar:ext/parser.jar to the classpath.
JRE1.4 has those included by default.
Java just isn't suited for mail clients
Columba is one of the nicest mail clients I've used, and even the beta version worked very well for me, but there's an enormous disadvantage -- since it's written in Java, the program consumes upwards of 30 megabytes of RAM.
No matter how nice the program is, that kind of memory usage is just inexcusable, especially for something like a mail client, which many people leave open all the time. Sadly, Java just is not suited for this sort of application.
Columba Email Client on Linux
It looks nice, but completely non-funcitonal for me. I attempted to set up multiple pop clients, it doesn't save the name you assign until you go in again and edit it, it doesn't create new accounts, except for the imap one. The imap one crashes every time I attempt to use it. I'll look later, in a year or so!