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Foxmail Foxmail is a compact, yet very powerful email program with many useful features and a pleasant interface. Foxmail supports POP3 accounts as well as Hotmail accounts and offers support for HTML email, mailbox encryption, multiple accounts and more.
Foxmail also comes with a WYSIWIG tool to compose nice looking HTML emails from templates or scratch. The program also offers filter options, allowing you to act upon incoming mail that meets certain criteria - you can delete messages, forward them, auto-respond to them and more based on keywords appearing in the subject, address, text etc.
The Express Send feature enables you to send mail directly to the recipient, using the built in SMTP server, thereby bypassing your ISP. Foxmail includes many other features, including a remote mail viewer to manage mail on the server, as well as a small scroll ticker that displays message subjects as they arrive in your inbox..
It is probably one of the most capable email programs you can find and an excellent alternative to Outlook Express (can import Outlook messages).
IMPORTANT. By default the Foxmail interface is in chinese. To use Foxmail in english just go into the installation directory and delete the Chinese.lgb file
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Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird can help you not only manage your mail but also connect to various chat servers. Moreover, its functionalities can be expanded by installing add-ons. One of the main advantages of this application is how easy it is to configure mail accounts.
More than just that, the program also helps you create a new mail account on any of various e-mail service providers.
If you are familiar with Mozilla Firefox, you will probably find that Thunderbird’s interface is very similar. It has convenient tabs to separate its different functions the same way you use them to browse several web pages at the same time. Moreover, those who have been using Microsoft Outlook for a while are likely to use Thunderbird without much trouble because both applications have very similar ways to handle e-mail messages. The use of different sets of e-mail folders comes in very handy when you are using various mail accounts. Thus, your personal messages will never muddle up with your business mail. Luckily, there are various skins to choose from so you can choose the one you like best.
Mozilla Thunderbird is very secure. It can successfully protect you from unwanted messages thanks to its powerful e-mail filtering engine, which can deduce new rules from your actions. It can also help you surpass message-size limitations by uploading large attachments to a server. Thus, instead of actually receiving the data, the recipient receives links to the online files. In addition, connecting to multiple chat accounts is very easy by simply providing a few data. Unfortunately, Thunderbird’s installer does not include such function as a planner. However, it is available as an add-on.
To sum up, Mozilla Thunderbird is undoubtedly one of the best applications of its kind. Therefore, if you did not use it before, perhaps you should give it a try.
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IncrediMail Are you tired of sending plain, boring e-mail messages? Do you want to add colorful backgrouds, sounds and animations to your professional or personal e-mails? Then, maybe you'll want to try IncrediMail.
IncrediMail is an e-mail client program for replacing your regular e-mail program, such as Outlook or Outlook Express, but it also works with Web-based e-mail accounts such as Hotmail and Yahoo Mail.
It adds many fun and colorful features for enriching your e-mails and making your e-mail experience more enjoyable. You can add built-in animated emoticons, as well as cool stationery to your messages. This way, you can customize your e-mail messages depending on the adressee and the type of the message. For example, you can add a Flowers background and Kisses emoticons to an e-mail for your loved one, and a Dynamic Chart to a business e-mail. Also, the program has a built-in voice recorder for adding voice messages to your mails.
You can upgrade your version of IncrediMail to Premium, which gives you access to additional features such as more backgrounds, animations and emoticons.
The developer claims that IncrediMail is absolutely free of spyware, adware and other malware. Also, it is Microsoft-certified, so these are additional reasons for trying it.
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hMailServer hMailServer is a full featured e-mail server compatible with modern Windows operating systems.
hMailServer provides support for the popular open email standards POP3, SMTP and IMAP4.
This makes the server compatible with most email clients available.
Installing and configuring hMailServer is easy and takes only a few minutes. The server comes with an easy-to-use MMC-like administration called hMailAdmin. hMailAdmin lets you add domains and accounts, specify settings, enable virus scanning and so on.
hMailServer supports Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL. The hMailServer installation includes a minimal, built-in database server called Microsoft SQL Server Compact.
During the installation you can choose whether you want to use the built-in database or a already existing database server. The built-in server saves you the hassle of having to set up and configure a separate database server for hMailServer, but using an external database server may give better performance.
hMailServer is compatible with any email client which supports SMTP, POP3 and IMAP. This is true also when it comes to web mail clients. hMailServer can use any web mail system which supports these protocols (normally SMTP and IMAP is used, not POP3). Depending on what server you are running, different web mail systems may suit your needs.
hMailServer is pre-configured to have high security when it comes to relaying and authentication so that no one can use your server to send spam messages. It also supports the very popular open source virus scanner ClamAV. Configuring hMailServer to use ClamAV only takes a single click. The server also supports black list servers and other spam-stopping mechanisms such as SPF and MX lookups.
hMailServer comes with a COM library that can be used for integration with other software. Using the COM library, it's possible to write scripts and full applications that utilize the features in hMailServer.
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