Windows mail clients
emailman.software.clients.win newsgroup (nntp or web access) to discuss Windows mail clients and utilities
See E-mail for Everyone, Adam Engst's review of e-mail clients. Although written from a Mac perspective, it covers the big-three cross-platform clients, so may be of interest.
Note that e-mail merge utilities are listed on the utilities page
Internet (POP3 assumed, or IMAP4 if specified, along with SMTP):
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- Barca from Poco Systems (makes of PocoMail) is a news and mail client, as well as a PIM (Calendar, Tasks, Planner, Notes, Diary, Contacts, Junk Mail filter and more)
- Opera browser/mail/news (see more links for Opera below)
- PocoMail by Poco
Systems. Powerful e-mail application that puts everything that matters in
e-mail at your fingertips with a streamlined interface that never
gets in your way. Unique search bar allows you to on-the-fly show
only relevant messages, indispensable if your mailbox contains more
than 100 messages. Built-in scripting allows for infinite
customization. You will also love message templates, built-in mailing
list support, ability to view mail on server, printing templates and
spell-checker. Poco has one-key access to most functions and
multithreaded operation. Drag-and-Drop messages, mailboxes,
addresses, even auto-script creation. Nested folders, multiple
address books, multiple accounts - tons of features you really need
in an archive that fits on a floppy.
- PocoMail Portable Edition by Poco
Systems. "PocoMail PE will run on almost any Windows-compatible computer, and installs on almost any type of removable media with sufficient space. Just plug/insert the media into the computer and start using PocoMail PE - no installation, no hassle, extremely secure email on the go."
- The Bat by RIT Research Labs supports POP/IMAP/SMTP and APOP. (Czech page)
- I recommend Eudora by Qualcomm (POP3 and IMAP4) (purchase)
- Acorn by tfmSoftware "features mulitple Profile setups to accomodate several users, or for use with multiple POP3 email accounts. Acorn is designed for ease of use with an open intuitive user interface. It includes spell checking, support for attachments, previewing message header information on the server, then selectively downloading or deleting individual messages, an HTML reader for .html messages and attachments, support for vCards and signatures." Free version with shareware fee eliminating ads (ads do not appear in outgoing messages, but on your screen while using the program).
- Agent by Forte Inc.
- AK-Mail
- Barca from Poco Systems (makes of PocoMail) is a news and mail client, as well as a PIM (Calendar, Tasks, Planner, Notes, Diary, Contacts, Junk Mail filter and more)
- Becky! by RIM-Arts Software Laboratory
- Calypso by Rose City Software (POP3 and IMAP4) is back
- I recommend Eudora by Qualcomm (POP3 and IMAP4) (purchase)
- ExpressMail by Opensoft
- FreeXP, maintained by Michael Heydekamp, is likely the most used CrossPoint derivative and is still actively developed. Supports POP, SMTP, and NNTP.
- CrossPoint (XP) Original version by Peter Mandrella, who ceased development and published the source code at the end of 1999. CrossPoint is an offline reader for DOS from Germany that has also english resource files, so that it is possible for international users to use it without difficulties. Furthermore it's being developed by several development teams. CrossPoint always needs a client/converter for different types of access: BBS (Fido, QWK and some other german-based systems) and internet access with SMTP, POP3 and NNTP. These clients come either for DOS (UKA_PPP, UKAD), Win9x (UKAW, XPNews, VSOUP and others), OS/2 or Linux. CrossPoint in its further developed versions (see below) is MIME-aware and - depending on the version - interprets a lot of different charsets (even UTF-7/8).
- GNUS mail and newsreader for EMACS.
- JBMail by Jem Berkes. "Very small, 'unobtrusive' POP3/SMTP client that directly accesses and keeps mail on the server"
- Kaufman Mail Warrior by Kaufman is a small and efficient but powerful POP3/SMTP mailer with support for multiple accounts.
- LingoMail for Windows supports over 30 different charsets/languages. Recipients on Windows need not own Lingomail, but can use a free message viewer that can optionally be sent with your message.
- Mahogany by Karsten Ballüder and the M-Team is an OpenSource cross-platform mail and news client. It is available for X11/Unix and MS Windows platforms, supporting a wide range of protocols and standards, including POP3, IMAP and full MIME support.
- MailButler
- MailControl by Transsoft Ltd.
- MailDrop by Tommy Roberson (IMAP4)
- MailEase by PrimeMail supports multiple accounts. It can also download just headers so you can delete unwanted mail before fully downloading.
- MailExpress by Cybercreek
- MailPartner by Acropolis Software
- MailReader by Trumpet Software International
- Mozilla (and Netscape) products:
- Mozilla is a web broswer, mail and news client, and HTML editor.
- Netscape, based on the Mozilla work, is also a web browser, mail and news client, and HTML editor.
- Thunderbird from the Mozilla team is a mail and news client for OS X, Windows, and Linux.
- The Netscape Unofficial FAQ covers all of the above products as well as Firefox browser from Mozilla
- MR/2 ICE: news and mail client for Windows or OS/2.
- Mulberry for by Cyrusoft does multiple multiple accounts, POP3/IMAP4/SMTP and PGP support. Also has Mac/Linux/Solaris versions. Available free is the Mulberry Administrator's Toolkit for Mac/Windows, implementing the IMSP and ACAP protocols.
- Mutt compiled for Windows!
- NeoPlanet web browser and e-mail client.
- NotesBuddy by IBM/AlphaWorks is a POP3/SMTP client as well as working with Lotus Notes
- Noworyta News Reader: an online and
offline newsreader by Filip Noworyta includes POP3 mail. Local mirror for downloading of the program.
- Opera browser/mail/news.
- Outlook by Microsoft
- Outlook Express and Outlook
Express for Win 3.1 by Microsoft do mail and news
- PC-Pine by University of Washington (comp.mail.pine newsgroup)
- Pegasus Mail (comp.mail.pegasus-mail.ms-windows newsgroup)
- Pimmy by Geminisoft does mail and news. Also can chat with Pimmy users on the same LAN. " Pimmy is less then 400K and the program consists in only one executable file. The program itself and all the documentation in HTLM format are contained in a compressed .zip file less than 200K. Pimmy has been written using C++ language with no external libraries, so it is very fast and small. Pimmy takes advantage of multithreading (more tasks of the same process executed at the "same" time) so many operations are faster. In addition all operations do not "block" the user interface, so the user can always stop Pimmy."
- PMMail by Blueprint Software Works
- PocoMail by Poco
Systems. Powerful e-mail application that puts everything that matters in
e-mail at your fingertips with a streamlined interface that never
gets in your way. Unique search bar allows you to on-the-fly show
only relevant messages, indispensable if your mailbox contains more
than 100 messages. Built-in scripting allows for infinite
customization. You will also love message templates, built-in mailing
list support, ability to view mail on server, printing templates and
spell-checker. Poco has one-key access to most functions and
multithreaded operation. Drag-and-Drop messages, mailboxes,
addresses, even auto-script creation. Nested folders, multiple
address books, multiple accounts - tons of features you really need
in an archive that fits on a floppy.
- PocoMail Portable Edition by Poco
Systems. "PocoMail PE will run on almost any Windows-compatible computer, and installs on almost any type of removable media with sufficient space. Just plug/insert the media into the computer and start using PocoMail PE - no installation, no hassle, extremely secure email on the go."
- PolySoft Crypt Edit by Polysoft is a word processor and e-mail client.
- PostMe by Johannes Oppermann
- QuickMail Pro and QuickMail Office by Outspring
- SoMail POP3/SMTP and newsreading (NNTP)
- SuperTCP Suite by Frontier Technologies Corporation has many features, including news, mail, and browser. Also available for OEM use.
- Virtual Access: does mail and news (will also read compuserve groups). Available for Win3.x,Win95,WinNT.
- WinBox by Agustin Lopez Bueno
Online Services / Non-Internet E-mail / Etc:
- Emma is the premier Windows client for MCI Mail.
- eNetBot Mail for Windows is an email automation software program that allows you to read/send your AOL mail from any POP3/SMTP compliant email program
- Outsmart Messenger enables you to use Microsoft Outlook to send and receive messages through WorldCom's SAFE system.
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