About:
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.

Release focus: Major bugfixes

Changes:
This version features a new TaskManager, complete SSL support, and a big addressbook cleanup. Many bugs and UI issues were fixed.

Author:
Frederik Dietz [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.20/10.00 (10 votes)

Homepage:
http://columba.sourceforge.net/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
[Operating System]		OS Independent
[Programming Language]		Java
[Topic]		Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	1.2	06-Jun-2006	Mozilla Public License (MPL)
Development	1.0RC1-test4	01-Jul-2004	Mozilla Public License (MPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.0RC1-test4	Major bugfixes	01-Jul-2004 15:43
1.0RC1-test3	Major bugfixes	13-Jun-2004 18:58
1.0RC1-test2	Minor bugfixes	18-May-2004 18:16
1.0 RC1-test1	Major feature enhancements	10-May-2004 22:46
0.11.0	Major feature enhancements	02-Jul-2003 12:42

 Comments

[»] Linux and Windows with dual-boot
by Kelby - Aug 20th 2004 08:34:12

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.

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[»] Nice work
by drewbian - Apr 11th 2004 16:38:44

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

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Drewbian GNU/LINUX DESKTOP - never be alone again...

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[»] Java just isn't suited for mail clients
by Ryan Grove - Jun 24th 2002 00:34:13

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.

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[»] Columba Email Client on Linux
by Dave Records - May 20th 2002 16:26:45

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!

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[»] NoClassDefFoundError: org/w3c/dom/Node
by dacracot - Mar 18th 2002 11:51:17

What jar do you expect in the class path to resolve the
"NoClassDefFoundError: org/w3c/dom/Node"?

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[»] Re: NoClassDefFoundError: org/w3c/dom/Node
by Timo Stich - Jul 24th 2002 05:02:53


> 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.

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