Comparison of e-mail clients
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The following tables compare general and technical features of a number of email client programs. Please see the individual products articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up to date.
s on which the clients can run natively (without emulation).
General
Basic general information about the clients: creator/company, licence/price etc. Clients listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.| Client | Creator | Operating system | Cost | Software license | User Interface |
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| Alpine | University of Washington University of Washington University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University... |
Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
Apache License Apache License The Apache License is a copyfree free software license authored by the Apache Software Foundation . The Apache License requires preservation of the copyright notice and disclaimer.... |
TUI Text user interface TUI short for: Text User Interface or Textual User Interface , is a retronym that was coined sometime after the invention of graphical user interfaces, to distinguish them from text-based user interfaces... |
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| Balsa | gnome.org | Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
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| Becky Internet Mail Becky is a Japanese television personality, or tarento, under the entertainment company Sun Music Productions. Beginning in late 2009, she began a music career under the name Becky♪♯, with the eighth note and sharp representing "a different half of Becky stepping up".-History:Becky was born in Kanagawa... |
Rimarts | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| BlitzMail BlitzMail BlitzMail is an e-mail system used at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. It was one of the earliest e-mail server/client packages. It became instantly popular at the college as a result of its simplicity and power, appealing to even the most inexperienced users... |
Dartmouth College Dartmouth College Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences... |
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| Citadel Citadel/UX Citadel/UX is a collaboration suite that is descended from the Citadel family of programs which became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a bulletin board system platform. It is designed to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD... |
citadel.org | Unix-like Unix-like A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.... |
GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
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| Claws Mail Claws Mail Claws Mail is a free, GTK+-based, open source email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin... |
the Claws Mail team | Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
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| Cone Cone (software) Cone is a text-based e-mail client and news client for Unix-like operating systems. It is developed by the Courier Mail Server developers. Its name stands for "console newsreader and emailer".... |
Courier Mail Server Courier Mail Server The Courier mail server is a mail transfer agent server that provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, SMAP, webmail, and mailing list services with individual components. It is best known for its IMAP server component.... developers |
Unix-like Unix-like A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.... |
GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
TUI Text user interface TUI short for: Text User Interface or Textual User Interface , is a retronym that was coined sometime after the invention of graphical user interfaces, to distinguish them from text-based user interfaces... |
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| Courier (formerly Calypso) | Micro Computer Systems, Inc., continued by Rose City Software | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| eM Client EM Client eM Client is a Windows-based Communication Client for managing E-mail, calendars, contacts and tasks. It contains integrated Instant Messaging for XMPP and Skype integration.... |
E&S Software | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Elm | Dave D. Taylor Dave D. Taylor Dave D. Taylor is an American game programmer, best known as a former id Software employee and noted for his work promoting Linux gaming.In 1993 he graduated from University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering.... , Sydney Weinstein, Bill Pemberton, Michael Elkins, Kari Hurtta |
Unix-like Unix-like A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.... |
Elm Mail System GPL | TUI Text user interface TUI short for: Text User Interface or Textual User Interface , is a retronym that was coined sometime after the invention of graphical user interfaces, to distinguish them from text-based user interfaces... |
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| EmailTray EmailTray EmailTray is a lightweight email client for the Microsoft Windows operating system. EmailTray was developed by Web CEO Corp., a software development company.EmailTray 2.0 was publicly released on October 7, 2010 as a free desktop email client... |
Web CEO Corp. | Windows | proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Eudora | Qualcomm Qualcomm Qualcomm is an American global telecommunication corporation that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its code division multiple access technology and other technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA... |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... , Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
Future release, Penelope, will be Free/Open Source Open source The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology... based on Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser... |
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| Eureka Email Eureka Email Eureka Email is an e-mail client. It has many features not found in other e-mail clients .-History:Eureka Email began as a project of Sean O' Connor in mid 2002. He finally wrote the program and was available for download in November of that year. Updates were frequent at first, but began to... |
Sean O'Connor | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| FirstClass FirstClass FirstClass is a client/server groupware, email, online conferencing, voice/fax services, and bulletin-board system for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux... |
Open Text | proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| GNUMail GNUMail GNUMail is a free and open source, cross-platform mail client for GNUstep and Cocoa. It is the official mail client of GNUstep and is also used in Étoilé. It was inspired by NeXTMail , the prime father of Apple Mail... |
Ludovic Marcotte and others | Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... , Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
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| Gnus Gnus Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail.Gnus blurs the distinction between news and e-mail, treating them both as "articles" that come from different sources. News articles are kept separate by group, and e-mail can be... |
Gnus team | Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
TUI Text user interface TUI short for: Text User Interface or Textual User Interface , is a retronym that was coined sometime after the invention of graphical user interfaces, to distinguish them from text-based user interfaces... |
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| GroupWise | Novell Novell Novell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise... |
Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| i.Scribe / InScribe Scribe Mail i.Scribe is a portable and cross-platform e-mail client for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X with some PIM functionality.Scribe comes in a freeware version: i.Scribe, which is limited to one account and 5 user defined filters and a commercial version: InScribe... |
Memecode | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... , Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... , Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| IBM Lotus Notes | Lotus Software Lotus Software Lotus Software is a software company with headquarters in Westford, Massachusetts... / IBM IBM International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas... |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... , Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... , Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| IncrediMail | IncrediMail Ltd. | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| KMail | KDE KDE KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems... |
Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
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| Mail Mail (application) Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,... |
Apple Inc. | Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... and iOS |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage was an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of the Microsoft Office 2001 office suite; Office 98, the previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS included... |
Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Microsoft Office Outlook | Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... , Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups is an e-mail and news client that is part of the Mozilla Application Suite.... |
Mozilla Foundation Mozilla Foundation The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. The organization sets the policies that govern development, operates key infrastructure and controls trademarks and other intellectual property... |
, part of Mozilla Application Suite Mozilla Application Suite The Mozilla Application Suite is a cross-platform integrated Internet suite. Its development was initiated by Netscape Communications Corporation, before their acquisition by AOL. It is based on the source code of Netscape Communicator... |
MPL Mozilla Public License The Mozilla Public License is a free and open source software license. Version 1.0 was developed by Mitchell Baker when she worked as a lawyer at Netscape Communications Corporation and version 1.1 at the Mozilla Foundation... , MPL/GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... /GNU LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License... tri-license |
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| Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser... |
Mozilla Foundation Mozilla Foundation The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. The organization sets the policies that govern development, operates key infrastructure and controls trademarks and other intellectual property... |
Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
MPL Mozilla Public License The Mozilla Public License is a free and open source software license. Version 1.0 was developed by Mitchell Baker when she worked as a lawyer at Netscape Communications Corporation and version 1.1 at the Mozilla Foundation... , MPL/GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... /GNU LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License... tri-license |
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| Mulberry | Cyrus Daboo (previously Cyrusoft International, Inc./ISAMET | Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
(as of version 4.0.5) | Apache License Apache License The Apache License is a copyfree free software license authored by the Apache Software Foundation . The Apache License requires preservation of the copyright notice and disclaimer.... |
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| Mutt | Michael Elkins | Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
TUI Text user interface TUI short for: Text User Interface or Textual User Interface , is a retronym that was coined sometime after the invention of graphical user interfaces, to distinguish them from text-based user interfaces... |
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| Netscape Messenger | Netscape Communications | ? | GUI | ||
| Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger is a standalone, multiplatform e-mail and news client that was developed by Netscape. Announced on June 11, 2007 as Netscape Mercury, the program was intended to accompany the web browser Netscape Navigator 9, and was based on Mozilla's Thunderbird.The original name Mercury was... |
Netscape Communications | MPL Mozilla Public License The Mozilla Public License is a free and open source software license. Version 1.0 was developed by Mitchell Baker when she worked as a lawyer at Netscape Communications Corporation and version 1.1 at the Mozilla Foundation... , MPL/GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... /GNU LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License... tri-license |
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| nmh / MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... |
RAND Corporation | Unix-like Unix-like A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.... |
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| Novell Evolution Novell Evolution Evolution or Novell Evolution is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. It has been an official part of GNOME since version 2.8 in September 2004... |
Ximian Ximian Ximian was a company that provided free software desktop applications for Linux and Unix based on the GNOME platform. Ximian was founded by Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman in October, 1999, and was bought by Novell on August 4, 2003... |
Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
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| Opera Mail | Opera Software Opera Software Opera Software ASA is a Norwegian software company, primarily known for its Opera family of web browsers with over 220 million users worldwide. Opera Software is also involved in promoting Web standards through participation in the W3C. The company has its headquarters in Oslo, Norway and is... |
Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
, Part of Opera Opera (web browser) Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by Opera Software with over 200 million users worldwide. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting on IRC, downloading files via BitTorrent,... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Outlook Express Outlook Express Outlook Express is an email and news client that is included with Internet Explorer versions 4.0 through 6.0. As such, it is also bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and is available for Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 and Mac OS 9... |
Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a donationware , proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by David Harris and his team. It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on Netware networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows... |
David Harris David Harris (software developer) David Harris is a software developer from Dunedin, New Zealand. He developed the Pegasus Mail client and the Mercury Mail Transport System, and is a former staff member of the University of Otago.... |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Pine | University of Washington University of Washington University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University... |
Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
Pine License | TUI Text user interface TUI short for: Text User Interface or Textual User Interface , is a retronym that was coined sometime after the invention of graphical user interfaces, to distinguish them from text-based user interfaces... |
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| Pocomail Pocomail Pocomail is an e-mail client that was first developed by Poco Systems in 1999. It was originally designed to provide better spam and attack protection by using its own scripting methods as opposed to using JavaScript and native Microsoft scripting.Pocomail was awarded the PC Magazine Shareware... |
Poco Systems | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Postbox | Postbox, Inc. | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... , Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
Proprietary Software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| RoundCube RoundCube Roundcube is a web-based IMAP email client written in the PHP programming language. Roundcube's most prominent feature is the pervasive use of Ajax technology to present a more fluid and responsive user interface than that of traditional webmail clients... |
The RoundCube Team | Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
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| SeaMonkey SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code... Mail & Newsgroups |
SeaMonkey Council | Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
, part of SeaMonkey SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code... |
MPL Mozilla Public License The Mozilla Public License is a free and open source software license. Version 1.0 was developed by Mitchell Baker when she worked as a lawyer at Netscape Communications Corporation and version 1.1 at the Mozilla Foundation... , MPL/GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... /GNU LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License... tri-license |
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| Sylpheed Sylpheed Sylpheed is an open source e-mail client and news client licensed under the GPL. It provides easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH Message Handling System. Sylpheed runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux or BSD as well as on Mac OS X and Windows. It uses... |
Hiroyuki Yamamoto | Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... /GNU LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License... |
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| Spicebird Spicebird Spicebird is a personal information manager based on Mozilla Thunderbird's code developed by an Indian company called . It is free and open source software.... |
Synovel | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... , Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... , BSD |
MPL Mozilla Public License The Mozilla Public License is a free and open source software license. Version 1.0 was developed by Mitchell Baker when she worked as a lawyer at Netscape Communications Corporation and version 1.1 at the Mozilla Foundation... , MPL/GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... /GNU LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License... tri-license |
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| SquirrelMail SquirrelMail SquirrelMail is an Open Source project that provides both a web-based email application and an IMAP proxy server.The webmail portion of the project was started by Nathan and Luke Ehresman in 1999 and is written in the PHP scripting language... |
The SquirrelMail Project Team | Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... v2 |
Web | |
| The Bat | RitLabs | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Turnpike Turnpike (software) Turnpike is a British-developed software suite for Microsoft Windows, originally written by Chris Hall and Richard Clayton . The suite, which comprises a combined email and news client as well as a separate program for handling the Internet connection aspects, first appeared in 1995... |
Thus PLC (Demon Internet) Demon Internet Demon Internet is a British Internet Service Provider. It was one of the UK's earliest ISPs, especially targeting the "dialup" audience. It started on 1 June 1992 from an idea posted on CIX by Cliff Stanford of Demon Systems Ltd. The branch in the Netherlands started in 1996, and was sold to KPN... |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a free of charge email client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista... |
Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| Windows Mail Windows Mail Windows Mail is an email and newsgroup client included in Windows Vista, that was superseded by Windows Live Mail. It is the successor to Outlook Express. Microsoft previewed Windows Mail on Channel 9 on October 10, 2005.... |
Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
proprietary software Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| YAM YAM (Yet Another Mailer) YAM is a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, a configurable GUI and an ARexx interface and many other features which are common for Mail User Agents ... |
YAM Open Source Team and contributing authors | AmigaOS AmigaOS AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000... |
GNU GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
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| Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... |
Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... |
Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... |
MPL Mozilla Public License The Mozilla Public License is a free and open source software license. Version 1.0 was developed by Mitchell Baker when she worked as a lawyer at Netscape Communications Corporation and version 1.1 at the Mozilla Foundation... on server and ZPL Zope Public License Zope Public License is a free software license, used primarily for the Zope application server software. The license is similar to the well-known BSD license, however the ZPL also adds clauses prohibiting trademark use and requiring documentation of all changes.-External links:* v2.0 at the Open... (attribution clause) on client |
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| Client | Creator | Operating System | Cost | Software license | User Interface |
Release history
A brief overview of the release history.| Client | First public release | First stable release | Latest stable release | ||
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| Date | Version | Date | Version | ||
| Alpine | November 2006 | 0.8 | December 2007 | 1.00 | |
| Becky Internet Mail Becky is a Japanese television personality, or tarento, under the entertainment company Sun Music Productions. Beginning in late 2009, she began a music career under the name Becky♪♯, with the eighth note and sharp representing "a different half of Becky stepping up".-History:Becky was born in Kanagawa... |
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| Citadel Citadel/UX Citadel/UX is a collaboration suite that is descended from the Citadel family of programs which became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a bulletin board system platform. It is designed to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD... |
1987 | 1988 | 1.00 | ||
| Claws Mail Claws Mail Claws Mail is a free, GTK+-based, open source email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin... |
May 2001 | 0.4.67 | January 2005 | 1.0.0 | |
| Cone Cone (software) Cone is a text-based e-mail client and news client for Unix-like operating systems. It is developed by the Courier Mail Server developers. Its name stands for "console newsreader and emailer".... |
May 2003 | 0.50 | May 2003 | 0.50 | |
| Courier | June, 2004 | 3.5 | discontinued | discontinued | discontinued |
| Elm | |||||
| EmailTray EmailTray EmailTray is a lightweight email client for the Microsoft Windows operating system. EmailTray was developed by Web CEO Corp., a software development company.EmailTray 2.0 was publicly released on October 7, 2010 as a free desktop email client... |
October 2010 | 2.0 | March 2011 | 3.11 | |
| EM Client EM Client eM Client is a Windows-based Communication Client for managing E-mail, calendars, contacts and tasks. It contains integrated Instant Messaging for XMPP and Skype integration.... |
2.7 (Sept 14, 2010) | ||||
| Eudora | 1988 | 1988 | |||
| Eureka Email Eureka Email Eureka Email is an e-mail client. It has many features not found in other e-mail clients .-History:Eureka Email began as a project of Sean O' Connor in mid 2002. He finally wrote the program and was available for download in November of that year. Updates were frequent at first, but began to... |
November 2002 | 1.0 | November 2002 | 1.0 | |
| Gnus Gnus Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail.Gnus blurs the distinction between news and e-mail, treating them both as "articles" that come from different sources. News articles are kept separate by group, and e-mail can be... |
1987 | February 1, 1988 | 2.0 | ||
| GroupWise | 1986 | 1.0 | |||
| i.Scribe / InScribe Scribe Mail i.Scribe is a portable and cross-platform e-mail client for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X with some PIM functionality.Scribe comes in a freeware version: i.Scribe, which is limited to one account and 5 user defined filters and a commercial version: InScribe... |
1999 | 1.00 | |||
| IBM Lotus Notes | 1989 | 1.0 | 1989 | 1.0 | |
| KMail | October 1998 | Alpha | February 1999 | 1.0.17 | |
| Mail Mail (application) Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,... |
September 13, 2000 | Public Beta | March 24, 2001 | 1.0 | |
| Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage was an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of the Microsoft Office 2001 office suite; Office 98, the previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS included... |
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| Microsoft Office Outlook | 1997 | 97 | 1997 | 97 | |
| Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups is an e-mail and news client that is part of the Mozilla Application Suite.... |
December 7, 1998 | "Preview" | March 19, 1999 | M3 | discontinued |
| Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser... |
July 28, 2003 | 0.1 | December 7, 2004 | 1.0 | |
| Mulberry | September 20, 1996 | 1.0 | September 20, 1996 | 1.0 | |
| Mutt | 1995 | ||||
| Netscape Messenger | discontinued | ||||
| Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger is a standalone, multiplatform e-mail and news client that was developed by Netscape. Announced on June 11, 2007 as Netscape Mercury, the program was intended to accompany the web browser Netscape Navigator 9, and was based on Mozilla's Thunderbird.The original name Mercury was... |
November 15, 2007 | 9.0a1 | discontinued | discontinued | discontinued |
| nmh / MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... |
1979 | ||||
| Novell Evolution Novell Evolution Evolution or Novell Evolution is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. It has been an official part of GNOME since version 2.8 in September 2004... |
11 May 2000 | 0.0 | 3 December 2001 | 1.0 | |
| Opera Mail | September 1996 | 2.1b1 | December 1996 | 2.1 | |
| Outlook Express Outlook Express Outlook Express is an email and news client that is included with Internet Explorer versions 4.0 through 6.0. As such, it is also bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and is available for Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 and Mac OS 9... |
1996 | 3.0 | |||
| Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a donationware , proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by David Harris and his team. It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on Netware networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows... |
1990 | 1990 | |||
| Pine | January 15, 1992 | 2.00 | January 15, 1992 | 2.00 | |
| Pocomail Pocomail Pocomail is an e-mail client that was first developed by Poco Systems in 1999. It was originally designed to provide better spam and attack protection by using its own scripting methods as opposed to using JavaScript and native Microsoft scripting.Pocomail was awarded the PC Magazine Shareware... |
1999 | ||||
| SeaMonkey SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code... Mail & Newsgroups |
September 15, 2005 | 1.0a | January 30, 2006 | 1.0 | |
| SquirrelMail SquirrelMail SquirrelMail is an Open Source project that provides both a web-based email application and an IMAP proxy server.The webmail portion of the project was started by Nathan and Luke Ehresman in 1999 and is written in the PHP scripting language... |
December 1999 | 0.1 | January 2001 | 1.0 | |
| Sylpheed Sylpheed Sylpheed is an open source e-mail client and news client licensed under the GPL. It provides easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH Message Handling System. Sylpheed runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux or BSD as well as on Mac OS X and Windows. It uses... |
January 2000 | 0.1.0 | December 2004 | 1.0.0 | |
| The Bat | March 1997 | 1.0 Beta | March 1998 | 1.00 Build 1310 | |
| Turnpike Turnpike (software) Turnpike is a British-developed software suite for Microsoft Windows, originally written by Chris Hall and Richard Clayton . The suite, which comprises a combined email and news client as well as a separate program for handling the Internet connection aspects, first appeared in 1995... |
circa 1996 | 1.0 | circa 1996 | 1.0 | |
| Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a free of charge email client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista... |
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| Windows Mail Windows Mail Windows Mail is an email and newsgroup client included in Windows Vista, that was superseded by Windows Live Mail. It is the successor to Outlook Express. Microsoft previewed Windows Mail on Channel 9 on October 10, 2005.... |
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| YAM YAM (Yet Another Mailer) YAM is a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, a configurable GUI and an ARexx interface and many other features which are common for Mail User Agents ... |
1995 | 1.0 | 1995 | 1.0 | |
| Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... |
November, 2005 | Beta | March, 2006 | 3.5 | |
| Client | Date | Version | Date | Version | Latest stable release |
| First public release | First stable release | ||||
Operating system support
The operating systemOperating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
s on which the clients can run natively (without emulation).
| Client | Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
BSD | Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... |
FreeDOS FreeDOS FreeDOS is an operating system for IBM PC compatible computers. FreeDOS is made up of many different, separate programs that act as "packages" to the overall FreeDOS Project... , DOS DOS DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related... |
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| Becky Internet Mail Becky is a Japanese television personality, or tarento, under the entertainment company Sun Music Productions. Beginning in late 2009, she began a music career under the name Becky♪♯, with the eighth note and sharp representing "a different half of Becky stepping up".-History:Becky was born in Kanagawa... |
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| Citadel Citadel/UX Citadel/UX is a collaboration suite that is descended from the Citadel family of programs which became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a bulletin board system platform. It is designed to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD... |
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| Claws Mail Claws Mail Claws Mail is a free, GTK+-based, open source email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin... |
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| Cone Cone (software) Cone is a text-based e-mail client and news client for Unix-like operating systems. It is developed by the Courier Mail Server developers. Its name stands for "console newsreader and emailer".... |
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| Courier | |||||||
| eM Client EM Client eM Client is a Windows-based Communication Client for managing E-mail, calendars, contacts and tasks. It contains integrated Instant Messaging for XMPP and Skype integration.... |
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| Elm | |||||||
| EmailTray EmailTray EmailTray is a lightweight email client for the Microsoft Windows operating system. EmailTray was developed by Web CEO Corp., a software development company.EmailTray 2.0 was publicly released on October 7, 2010 as a free desktop email client... |
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| Eudora | |||||||
| Eureka Email Eureka Email Eureka Email is an e-mail client. It has many features not found in other e-mail clients .-History:Eureka Email began as a project of Sean O' Connor in mid 2002. He finally wrote the program and was available for download in November of that year. Updates were frequent at first, but began to... |
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| Gnus Gnus Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail.Gnus blurs the distinction between news and e-mail, treating them both as "articles" that come from different sources. News articles are kept separate by group, and e-mail can be... |
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| GroupWise | |||||||
| i.Scribe / InScribe Scribe Mail i.Scribe is a portable and cross-platform e-mail client for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X with some PIM functionality.Scribe comes in a freeware version: i.Scribe, which is limited to one account and 5 user defined filters and a commercial version: InScribe... |
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| Mail Mail (application) Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,... |
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| Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage was an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of the Microsoft Office 2001 office suite; Office 98, the previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS included... |
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| Microsoft Office Outlook | |||||||
| Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups is an e-mail and news client that is part of the Mozilla Application Suite.... |
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| Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser... |
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| Netscape Messenger | colspan="5" (4.80) | ||||||
| Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger is a standalone, multiplatform e-mail and news client that was developed by Netscape. Announced on June 11, 2007 as Netscape Mercury, the program was intended to accompany the web browser Netscape Navigator 9, and was based on Mozilla's Thunderbird.The original name Mercury was... |
colspan="5" (9.0a1) | ||||||
| nmh / MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... |
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| Novell Evolution Novell Evolution Evolution or Novell Evolution is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. It has been an official part of GNOME since version 2.8 in September 2004... |
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| Opera Mail | |||||||
| Outlook Express Outlook Express Outlook Express is an email and news client that is included with Internet Explorer versions 4.0 through 6.0. As such, it is also bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and is available for Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 and Mac OS 9... |
(up to XP) | ||||||
| Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a donationware , proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by David Harris and his team. It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on Netware networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows... |
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| Pine | (3.96) | ||||||
| Pocomail Pocomail Pocomail is an e-mail client that was first developed by Poco Systems in 1999. It was originally designed to provide better spam and attack protection by using its own scripting methods as opposed to using JavaScript and native Microsoft scripting.Pocomail was awarded the PC Magazine Shareware... |
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| Postbox | |||||||
| SeaMonkey SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code... Mail & Newsgroups |
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| Sylpheed Sylpheed Sylpheed is an open source e-mail client and news client licensed under the GPL. It provides easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH Message Handling System. Sylpheed runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux or BSD as well as on Mac OS X and Windows. It uses... |
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| Spicebird Spicebird Spicebird is a personal information manager based on Mozilla Thunderbird's code developed by an Indian company called . It is free and open source software.... |
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| SquirrelMail SquirrelMail SquirrelMail is an Open Source project that provides both a web-based email application and an IMAP proxy server.The webmail portion of the project was started by Nathan and Luke Ehresman in 1999 and is written in the PHP scripting language... |
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| The Bat | |||||||
| Turnpike Turnpike (software) Turnpike is a British-developed software suite for Microsoft Windows, originally written by Chris Hall and Richard Clayton . The suite, which comprises a combined email and news client as well as a separate program for handling the Internet connection aspects, first appeared in 1995... |
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| Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a free of charge email client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista... |
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| Windows Mail Windows Mail Windows Mail is an email and newsgroup client included in Windows Vista, that was superseded by Windows Live Mail. It is the successor to Outlook Express. Microsoft previewed Windows Mail on Channel 9 on October 10, 2005.... |
(Vista) | ||||||
| YAM YAM (Yet Another Mailer) YAM is a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, a configurable GUI and an ARexx interface and many other features which are common for Mail User Agents ... |
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| Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... |
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| Client | Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
BSD | Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna... |
FreeDOS FreeDOS FreeDOS is an operating system for IBM PC compatible computers. FreeDOS is made up of many different, separate programs that act as "packages" to the overall FreeDOS Project... , DOS DOS DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related... |
Other |
Communication and access protocol support
What email and related protocols and standards are supported by each client.| Client | POP3 Post Office Protocol In computing, the Post Office Protocol is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. POP and IMAP are the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval. Virtually all modern... fetch all messages |
POP3 Post Office Protocol In computing, the Post Office Protocol is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. POP and IMAP are the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval. Virtually all modern... selected by filter |
POP3 Post Office Protocol In computing, the Post Office Protocol is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. POP and IMAP are the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval. Virtually all modern... selected by user |
IMAP4 Internet Message Access Protocol Internet message access protocol is one of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval, the other being the Post Office Protocol... |
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is an Internet standard for electronic mail transmission across Internet Protocol networks. SMTP was first defined by RFC 821 , and last updated by RFC 5321 which includes the extended SMTP additions, and is the protocol in widespread use today... |
NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol The Network News Transfer Protocol is an Internet application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles between news servers and for reading and posting articles by end user client applications... |
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol network... v2 |
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol network... v3 |
EWS Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server is the server side of a client–server, collaborative application product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure products... |
IPv6 IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4... |
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| Mail Mail (application) Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,... |
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| Becky Internet Mail Becky is a Japanese television personality, or tarento, under the entertainment company Sun Music Productions. Beginning in late 2009, she began a music career under the name Becky♪♯, with the eighth note and sharp representing "a different half of Becky stepping up".-History:Becky was born in Kanagawa... |
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| Citadel Citadel/UX Citadel/UX is a collaboration suite that is descended from the Citadel family of programs which became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a bulletin board system platform. It is designed to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD... |
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| Claws Mail Claws Mail Claws Mail is a free, GTK+-based, open source email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin... |
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| Cone Cone (software) Cone is a text-based e-mail client and news client for Unix-like operating systems. It is developed by the Courier Mail Server developers. Its name stands for "console newsreader and emailer".... |
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| eM Client EM Client eM Client is a Windows-based Communication Client for managing E-mail, calendars, contacts and tasks. It contains integrated Instant Messaging for XMPP and Skype integration.... |
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| EmailTray EmailTray EmailTray is a lightweight email client for the Microsoft Windows operating system. EmailTray was developed by Web CEO Corp., a software development company.EmailTray 2.0 was publicly released on October 7, 2010 as a free desktop email client... |
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| Eureka Email Eureka Email Eureka Email is an e-mail client. It has many features not found in other e-mail clients .-History:Eureka Email began as a project of Sean O' Connor in mid 2002. He finally wrote the program and was available for download in November of that year. Updates were frequent at first, but began to... |
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| Gnus Gnus Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail.Gnus blurs the distinction between news and e-mail, treating them both as "articles" that come from different sources. News articles are kept separate by group, and e-mail can be... |
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| i.Scribe / InScribe Scribe Mail i.Scribe is a portable and cross-platform e-mail client for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X with some PIM functionality.Scribe comes in a freeware version: i.Scribe, which is limited to one account and 5 user defined filters and a commercial version: InScribe... |
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| Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage was an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of the Microsoft Office 2001 office suite; Office 98, the previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS included... |
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| Microsoft Entourage 2008, Web Services Edition Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage was an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of the Microsoft Office 2001 office suite; Office 98, the previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS included... |
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| Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups is an e-mail and news client that is part of the Mozilla Application Suite.... |
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| Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser... |
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| Mutt | No (possible with POP3 browser) | No (possible with POP3 browser) | (slrn Slrn slrn is an open source text-based news client. It was originally developed for Unix-like operating systems, but is now available for many other operating systems, including Microsoft Windows.... looks alike) |
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| Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger is a standalone, multiplatform e-mail and news client that was developed by Netscape. Announced on June 11, 2007 as Netscape Mercury, the program was intended to accompany the web browser Netscape Navigator 9, and was based on Mozilla's Thunderbird.The original name Mercury was... |
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| nmh / MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... |
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| Novell Evolution Novell Evolution Evolution or Novell Evolution is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. It has been an official part of GNOME since version 2.8 in September 2004... |
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| Outlook Express Outlook Express Outlook Express is an email and news client that is included with Internet Explorer versions 4.0 through 6.0. As such, it is also bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and is available for Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 and Mac OS 9... |
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| Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a donationware , proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by David Harris and his team. It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on Netware networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows... |
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| Pocomail Pocomail Pocomail is an e-mail client that was first developed by Poco Systems in 1999. It was originally designed to provide better spam and attack protection by using its own scripting methods as opposed to using JavaScript and native Microsoft scripting.Pocomail was awarded the PC Magazine Shareware... |
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| SeaMonkey SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code... Mail & Newsgroups |
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| SquirrelMail SquirrelMail SquirrelMail is an Open Source project that provides both a web-based email application and an IMAP proxy server.The webmail portion of the project was started by Nathan and Luke Ehresman in 1999 and is written in the PHP scripting language... |
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| Sylpheed Sylpheed Sylpheed is an open source e-mail client and news client licensed under the GPL. It provides easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH Message Handling System. Sylpheed runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux or BSD as well as on Mac OS X and Windows. It uses... |
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| Spicebird Spicebird Spicebird is a personal information manager based on Mozilla Thunderbird's code developed by an Indian company called . It is free and open source software.... |
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| Turnpike Turnpike (software) Turnpike is a British-developed software suite for Microsoft Windows, originally written by Chris Hall and Richard Clayton . The suite, which comprises a combined email and news client as well as a separate program for handling the Internet connection aspects, first appeared in 1995... |
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| Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a free of charge email client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista... |
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| Windows Mail Windows Mail Windows Mail is an email and newsgroup client included in Windows Vista, that was superseded by Windows Live Mail. It is the successor to Outlook Express. Microsoft previewed Windows Mail on Channel 9 on October 10, 2005.... |
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| YAM YAM (Yet Another Mailer) YAM is a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, a configurable GUI and an ARexx interface and many other features which are common for Mail User Agents ... |
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| Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... |
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| Client | POP3 Post Office Protocol In computing, the Post Office Protocol is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. POP and IMAP are the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval. Virtually all modern... fetch all messages |
POP3 Post Office Protocol In computing, the Post Office Protocol is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. POP and IMAP are the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval. Virtually all modern... selected by filter |
POP3 Post Office Protocol In computing, the Post Office Protocol is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. POP and IMAP are the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval. Virtually all modern... selected by user |
IMAP4 Internet Message Access Protocol Internet message access protocol is one of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval, the other being the Post Office Protocol... |
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is an Internet standard for electronic mail transmission across Internet Protocol networks. SMTP was first defined by RFC 821 , and last updated by RFC 5321 which includes the extended SMTP additions, and is the protocol in widespread use today... |
NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol The Network News Transfer Protocol is an Internet application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles between news servers and for reading and posting articles by end user client applications... |
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol network... v2 |
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol network... v3 |
EWS Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server is the server side of a client–server, collaborative application product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure products... |
IPv6 IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4... |
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| Client | IMSP IMSP IMSP is Internet Message Support Protocol. Defined in a 1995 , which carries this abstract:Work on standardizing IMSP was never completed because development of the ACAP protocol, which has a superset of IMSP's functionality.- Implementations :... |
ACAP Application Configuration Access Protocol The Application Configuration Access Protocol is a protocol for storing and synchronizing general configuration and preference data. It was originally developed so that IMAP clients can easily access address books, user options, and other data on a central server and be kept in synch across all... |
RSS 0.91 RSS (file format) RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format... Feeds Web feed A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator... |
RSS 1.0 RSS (file format) RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format... Feeds Web feed A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator... |
RSS 2.0 RSS (file format) RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format... Feeds Web feed A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator... |
ATOM Atom (standard) The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards. The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds, while the Atom Publishing Protocol is a simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources.Web feeds allow software programs to check for updates published on a... Feeds Web feed A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator... |
iCalendar ICalendar iCalendar is a computer file format which allows Internet users to send meeting requests and tasks to other Internet users, via email, or sharing files with an extension of .ics... |
MAPI/RPC Messaging Application Programming Interface Messaging Application Programming Interface is a messaging architecture and a Component Object Model based API for Microsoft Windows. MAPI allows client programmes to become messaging-enabled, -aware, or -based by calling MAPI subsystem routines that interface with certain messaging servers... |
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| Becky Internet Mail Becky is a Japanese television personality, or tarento, under the entertainment company Sun Music Productions. Beginning in late 2009, she began a music career under the name Becky♪♯, with the eighth note and sharp representing "a different half of Becky stepping up".-History:Becky was born in Kanagawa... |
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| Citadel Citadel/UX Citadel/UX is a collaboration suite that is descended from the Citadel family of programs which became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a bulletin board system platform. It is designed to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD... |
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| Claws Mail Claws Mail Claws Mail is a free, GTK+-based, open source email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin... |
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| Cone Cone (software) Cone is a text-based e-mail client and news client for Unix-like operating systems. It is developed by the Courier Mail Server developers. Its name stands for "console newsreader and emailer".... |
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| eM Client EM Client eM Client is a Windows-based Communication Client for managing E-mail, calendars, contacts and tasks. It contains integrated Instant Messaging for XMPP and Skype integration.... |
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| EmailTray EmailTray EmailTray is a lightweight email client for the Microsoft Windows operating system. EmailTray was developed by Web CEO Corp., a software development company.EmailTray 2.0 was publicly released on October 7, 2010 as a free desktop email client... |
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| Eudora | ||||||||
| Eureka Email Eureka Email Eureka Email is an e-mail client. It has many features not found in other e-mail clients .-History:Eureka Email began as a project of Sean O' Connor in mid 2002. He finally wrote the program and was available for download in November of that year. Updates were frequent at first, but began to... |
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| Gnus Gnus Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail.Gnus blurs the distinction between news and e-mail, treating them both as "articles" that come from different sources. News articles are kept separate by group, and e-mail can be... |
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| i.Scribe / InScribe Scribe Mail i.Scribe is a portable and cross-platform e-mail client for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X with some PIM functionality.Scribe comes in a freeware version: i.Scribe, which is limited to one account and 5 user defined filters and a commercial version: InScribe... |
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| IBM Lotus Notes | ||||||||
| KMail | ||||||||
| Mail Mail (application) Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,... |
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| Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage was an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of the Microsoft Office 2001 office suite; Office 98, the previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS included... |
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| Microsoft Office Outlook | ||||||||
| Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups is an e-mail and news client that is part of the Mozilla Application Suite.... |
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| Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser... |
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| Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger is a standalone, multiplatform e-mail and news client that was developed by Netscape. Announced on June 11, 2007 as Netscape Mercury, the program was intended to accompany the web browser Netscape Navigator 9, and was based on Mozilla's Thunderbird.The original name Mercury was... |
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| nmh / MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... |
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| Novell Evolution Novell Evolution Evolution or Novell Evolution is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. It has been an official part of GNOME since version 2.8 in September 2004... |
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| Outlook Express Outlook Express Outlook Express is an email and news client that is included with Internet Explorer versions 4.0 through 6.0. As such, it is also bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and is available for Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 and Mac OS 9... |
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| Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a donationware , proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by David Harris and his team. It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on Netware networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows... |
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| Pine | ||||||||
| Pocomail Pocomail Pocomail is an e-mail client that was first developed by Poco Systems in 1999. It was originally designed to provide better spam and attack protection by using its own scripting methods as opposed to using JavaScript and native Microsoft scripting.Pocomail was awarded the PC Magazine Shareware... |
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| SeaMonkey SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code... Mail & Newsgroups |
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| SquirrelMail SquirrelMail SquirrelMail is an Open Source project that provides both a web-based email application and an IMAP proxy server.The webmail portion of the project was started by Nathan and Luke Ehresman in 1999 and is written in the PHP scripting language... |
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| Sylpheed Sylpheed Sylpheed is an open source e-mail client and news client licensed under the GPL. It provides easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH Message Handling System. Sylpheed runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux or BSD as well as on Mac OS X and Windows. It uses... |
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| Spicebird Spicebird Spicebird is a personal information manager based on Mozilla Thunderbird's code developed by an Indian company called . It is free and open source software.... |
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| Turnpike Turnpike (software) Turnpike is a British-developed software suite for Microsoft Windows, originally written by Chris Hall and Richard Clayton . The suite, which comprises a combined email and news client as well as a separate program for handling the Internet connection aspects, first appeared in 1995... |
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| Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a free of charge email client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista... |
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| Windows Mail Windows Mail Windows Mail is an email and newsgroup client included in Windows Vista, that was superseded by Windows Live Mail. It is the successor to Outlook Express. Microsoft previewed Windows Mail on Channel 9 on October 10, 2005.... |
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| YAM YAM (Yet Another Mailer) YAM is a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, a configurable GUI and an ARexx interface and many other features which are common for Mail User Agents ... |
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| Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... |
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| Client | IMSP IMSP IMSP is Internet Message Support Protocol. Defined in a 1995 , which carries this abstract:Work on standardizing IMSP was never completed because development of the ACAP protocol, which has a superset of IMSP's functionality.- Implementations :... |
ACAP Application Configuration Access Protocol The Application Configuration Access Protocol is a protocol for storing and synchronizing general configuration and preference data. It was originally developed so that IMAP clients can easily access address books, user options, and other data on a central server and be kept in synch across all... |
RSS 0.91 RSS (file format) RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format... Feeds Web feed A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator... |
RSS 1.0 RSS (file format) RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format... Feeds Web feed A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator... |
RSS 2.0 RSS (file format) RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format... Feeds Web feed A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator... |
ATOM Atom (standard) The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards. The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds, while the Atom Publishing Protocol is a simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources.Web feeds allow software programs to check for updates published on a... Feeds Web feed A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator... |
iCalendar ICalendar iCalendar is a computer file format which allows Internet users to send meeting requests and tasks to other Internet users, via email, or sharing files with an extension of .ics... |
MAPI/RPC |
Authentication support
| Client | Regular | MSN (NTLM NTLM In a Windows network, NTLM is a suite of Microsoft security protocols that provides authentication, integrity, and confidentiality to users.... ) browser login |
Compuserve (RPA) |
MD5 APOP | CRAM-HMAC | DIGEST-MD5 | with hardware token PKCS#11 PKCS11 In cryptography, PKCS #11 is one of the family of standards called Public-Key Cryptography Standards , published by RSA Laboratories, that defines a platform-independent API to cryptographic tokens, such as Hardware Security Modules and smart cards... |
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| Citadel Citadel/UX Citadel/UX is a collaboration suite that is descended from the Citadel family of programs which became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a bulletin board system platform. It is designed to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD... |
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| Claws Mail Claws Mail Claws Mail is a free, GTK+-based, open source email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin... |
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| Cone Cone (software) Cone is a text-based e-mail client and news client for Unix-like operating systems. It is developed by the Courier Mail Server developers. Its name stands for "console newsreader and emailer".... |
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| eM Client EM Client eM Client is a Windows-based Communication Client for managing E-mail, calendars, contacts and tasks. It contains integrated Instant Messaging for XMPP and Skype integration.... |
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| EmailTray EmailTray EmailTray is a lightweight email client for the Microsoft Windows operating system. EmailTray was developed by Web CEO Corp., a software development company.EmailTray 2.0 was publicly released on October 7, 2010 as a free desktop email client... |
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| Eureka Email Eureka Email Eureka Email is an e-mail client. It has many features not found in other e-mail clients .-History:Eureka Email began as a project of Sean O' Connor in mid 2002. He finally wrote the program and was available for download in November of that year. Updates were frequent at first, but began to... |
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| Gnus Gnus Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail.Gnus blurs the distinction between news and e-mail, treating them both as "articles" that come from different sources. News articles are kept separate by group, and e-mail can be... |
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| i.Scribe / InScribe Scribe Mail i.Scribe is a portable and cross-platform e-mail client for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X with some PIM functionality.Scribe comes in a freeware version: i.Scribe, which is limited to one account and 5 user defined filters and a commercial version: InScribe... |
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| Mail Mail (application) Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,... |
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| Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage was an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of the Microsoft Office 2001 office suite; Office 98, the previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS included... |
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| Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups is an e-mail and news client that is part of the Mozilla Application Suite.... |
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| Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser... |
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| Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger is a standalone, multiplatform e-mail and news client that was developed by Netscape. Announced on June 11, 2007 as Netscape Mercury, the program was intended to accompany the web browser Netscape Navigator 9, and was based on Mozilla's Thunderbird.The original name Mercury was... |
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| nmh / MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... |
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| Novell Evolution Novell Evolution Evolution or Novell Evolution is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. It has been an official part of GNOME since version 2.8 in September 2004... |
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| Outlook Express Outlook Express Outlook Express is an email and news client that is included with Internet Explorer versions 4.0 through 6.0. As such, it is also bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and is available for Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 and Mac OS 9... |
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| Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a donationware , proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by David Harris and his team. It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on Netware networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows... |
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| Pine | |||||||||||||
| Pocomail Pocomail Pocomail is an e-mail client that was first developed by Poco Systems in 1999. It was originally designed to provide better spam and attack protection by using its own scripting methods as opposed to using JavaScript and native Microsoft scripting.Pocomail was awarded the PC Magazine Shareware... |
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| SeaMonkey SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code... Mail & Newsgroups |
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| SquirrelMail SquirrelMail SquirrelMail is an Open Source project that provides both a web-based email application and an IMAP proxy server.The webmail portion of the project was started by Nathan and Luke Ehresman in 1999 and is written in the PHP scripting language... |
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| Sylpheed Sylpheed Sylpheed is an open source e-mail client and news client licensed under the GPL. It provides easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH Message Handling System. Sylpheed runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux or BSD as well as on Mac OS X and Windows. It uses... |
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| Turnpike Turnpike (software) Turnpike is a British-developed software suite for Microsoft Windows, originally written by Chris Hall and Richard Clayton . The suite, which comprises a combined email and news client as well as a separate program for handling the Internet connection aspects, first appeared in 1995... |
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| Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a free of charge email client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista... |
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| Windows Mail Windows Mail Windows Mail is an email and newsgroup client included in Windows Vista, that was superseded by Windows Live Mail. It is the successor to Outlook Express. Microsoft previewed Windows Mail on Channel 9 on October 10, 2005.... |
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| YAM YAM (Yet Another Mailer) YAM is a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, a configurable GUI and an ARexx interface and many other features which are common for Mail User Agents ... |
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| Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... |
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| Client | Regular | MSN (NTLM NTLM In a Windows network, NTLM is a suite of Microsoft security protocols that provides authentication, integrity, and confidentiality to users.... ) browser login |
Compuserve (RPA) |
MD5 APOP | CRAM-HMAC | DIGEST-MD5 | with hardware token PKCS#11 PKCS11 In cryptography, PKCS #11 is one of the family of standards called Public-Key Cryptography Standards , published by RSA Laboratories, that defines a platform-independent API to cryptographic tokens, such as Hardware Security Modules and smart cards... |
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| Becky Internet Mail Becky is a Japanese television personality, or tarento, under the entertainment company Sun Music Productions. Beginning in late 2009, she began a music career under the name Becky♪♯, with the eighth note and sharp representing "a different half of Becky stepping up".-History:Becky was born in Kanagawa... |
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| Citadel Citadel/UX Citadel/UX is a collaboration suite that is descended from the Citadel family of programs which became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a bulletin board system platform. It is designed to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD... |
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| Claws Mail Claws Mail Claws Mail is a free, GTK+-based, open source email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin... |
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| Cone Cone (software) Cone is a text-based e-mail client and news client for Unix-like operating systems. It is developed by the Courier Mail Server developers. Its name stands for "console newsreader and emailer".... |
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| eM Client EM Client eM Client is a Windows-based Communication Client for managing E-mail, calendars, contacts and tasks. It contains integrated Instant Messaging for XMPP and Skype integration.... |
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| Elm | ||||||||||||
| EmailTray EmailTray EmailTray is a lightweight email client for the Microsoft Windows operating system. EmailTray was developed by Web CEO Corp., a software development company.EmailTray 2.0 was publicly released on October 7, 2010 as a free desktop email client... |
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| Eudora | ||||||||||||
| Eureka Email Eureka Email Eureka Email is an e-mail client. It has many features not found in other e-mail clients .-History:Eureka Email began as a project of Sean O' Connor in mid 2002. He finally wrote the program and was available for download in November of that year. Updates were frequent at first, but began to... |
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| Gnus Gnus Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail.Gnus blurs the distinction between news and e-mail, treating them both as "articles" that come from different sources. News articles are kept separate by group, and e-mail can be... |
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| i.Scribe / InScribe Scribe Mail i.Scribe is a portable and cross-platform e-mail client for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X with some PIM functionality.Scribe comes in a freeware version: i.Scribe, which is limited to one account and 5 user defined filters and a commercial version: InScribe... |
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| Mail Mail (application) Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,... |
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| Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage was an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of the Microsoft Office 2001 office suite; Office 98, the previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS included... |
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| Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups is an e-mail and news client that is part of the Mozilla Application Suite.... |
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| Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser... |
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| Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger is a standalone, multiplatform e-mail and news client that was developed by Netscape. Announced on June 11, 2007 as Netscape Mercury, the program was intended to accompany the web browser Netscape Navigator 9, and was based on Mozilla's Thunderbird.The original name Mercury was... |
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| nmh / MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... |
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| Novell Evolution Novell Evolution Evolution or Novell Evolution is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. It has been an official part of GNOME since version 2.8 in September 2004... |
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| Outlook Express Outlook Express Outlook Express is an email and news client that is included with Internet Explorer versions 4.0 through 6.0. As such, it is also bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and is available for Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 and Mac OS 9... |
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| Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a donationware , proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by David Harris and his team. It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on Netware networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows... |
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| Pine | ||||||||||||
| Pocomail Pocomail Pocomail is an e-mail client that was first developed by Poco Systems in 1999. It was originally designed to provide better spam and attack protection by using its own scripting methods as opposed to using JavaScript and native Microsoft scripting.Pocomail was awarded the PC Magazine Shareware... |
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| SeaMonkey SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code... Mail & Newsgroups |
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| SquirrelMail SquirrelMail SquirrelMail is an Open Source project that provides both a web-based email application and an IMAP proxy server.The webmail portion of the project was started by Nathan and Luke Ehresman in 1999 and is written in the PHP scripting language... |
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| Sylpheed Sylpheed Sylpheed is an open source e-mail client and news client licensed under the GPL. It provides easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH Message Handling System. Sylpheed runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux or BSD as well as on Mac OS X and Windows. It uses... |
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| Spicebird Spicebird Spicebird is a personal information manager based on Mozilla Thunderbird's code developed by an Indian company called . It is free and open source software.... |
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| The Bat | ||||||||||||
| Turnpike Turnpike (software) Turnpike is a British-developed software suite for Microsoft Windows, originally written by Chris Hall and Richard Clayton . The suite, which comprises a combined email and news client as well as a separate program for handling the Internet connection aspects, first appeared in 1995... |
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| Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a free of charge email client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista... |
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| Windows Mail Windows Mail Windows Mail is an email and newsgroup client included in Windows Vista, that was superseded by Windows Live Mail. It is the successor to Outlook Express. Microsoft previewed Windows Mail on Channel 9 on October 10, 2005.... |
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| YAM YAM (Yet Another Mailer) YAM is a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, a configurable GUI and an ARexx interface and many other features which are common for Mail User Agents ... |
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| Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... |
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| Client | Secure POP3 | Secure IMAP4 | Secure SMTP | Secure NNTP | Secure LDAP | OCSP | CRL | |||||
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General features
For all of these clients, the concept of "HTML support" does not mean that they can process the full range of HTML that a web browser can handle. Almost all email readers limit HTML features, either for security reasons, or because of the nature of the interface. CSS and JavaScript can be especially problematic. A number of articles describe these limitations per-email-client; see 1, 2, 3, and 4| Client | HTML email | UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks... support |
Image blocking | Junk filtering | Phishing Phishing Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT... filtering |
Thread view | Conversation view | PGP Pretty Good Privacy Pretty Good Privacy is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting texts, E-mails, files, directories and whole disk partitions to increase the security... support |
S/MIME S/MIME S/MIME is a standard for public key encryption and signing of MIME data. S/MIME is on an IETF standards track and defined in a number of documents, most importantly RFCs. S/MIME was originally developed by RSA Data Security Inc... support |
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| local | server- side | inline | PGP/MIME or OpenPGP | protocol | OCSP | CRL Certificate revocation list In the operation of some cryptosystems, usually public key infrastructures , a certificate revocation list is a list of certificates that have been revoked, and therefore should not be relied upon.-Revocation States:There are two different states of revocation defined in RFC 3280:* Revoked: A... |
certificates on tokens, smartcards support | |||||||
| Alpine | ||||||||||||||
| Citadel Citadel/UX Citadel/UX is a collaboration suite that is descended from the Citadel family of programs which became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a bulletin board system platform. It is designed to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD... |
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| Claws Mail Claws Mail Claws Mail is a free, GTK+-based, open source email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin... |
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| Cone Cone (software) Cone is a text-based e-mail client and news client for Unix-like operating systems. It is developed by the Courier Mail Server developers. Its name stands for "console newsreader and emailer".... |
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| Courier | ||||||||||||||
| eM Client EM Client eM Client is a Windows-based Communication Client for managing E-mail, calendars, contacts and tasks. It contains integrated Instant Messaging for XMPP and Skype integration.... |
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| Elm | ||||||||||||||
| EmailTray EmailTray EmailTray is a lightweight email client for the Microsoft Windows operating system. EmailTray was developed by Web CEO Corp., a software development company.EmailTray 2.0 was publicly released on October 7, 2010 as a free desktop email client... |
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| Eudora | ||||||||||||||
| Eureka Email Eureka Email Eureka Email is an e-mail client. It has many features not found in other e-mail clients .-History:Eureka Email began as a project of Sean O' Connor in mid 2002. He finally wrote the program and was available for download in November of that year. Updates were frequent at first, but began to... |
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| Gnus Gnus Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail.Gnus blurs the distinction between news and e-mail, treating them both as "articles" that come from different sources. News articles are kept separate by group, and e-mail can be... |
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| GroupWise | ||||||||||||||
| i.Scribe / InScribe Scribe Mail i.Scribe is a portable and cross-platform e-mail client for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X with some PIM functionality.Scribe comes in a freeware version: i.Scribe, which is limited to one account and 5 user defined filters and a commercial version: InScribe... |
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| IBM Lotus Notes | (4.1.2+) |
, http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/lotus/c2359840.nsf/b3266a3c17f9bb7085256b870069c0a9/9b7f328aa2eacd9385257361004fd8a4?OpenDocument | ||||||||||||
| KMail | (with GPG) |
(1.5+, with GPGME) |
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| Mail Mail (application) Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,... |
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| Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage was an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of the Microsoft Office 2001 office suite; Office 98, the previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS included... |
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| Microsoft Office Outlook | (2010+) | |||||||||||||
| Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups is an e-mail and news client that is part of the Mozilla Application Suite.... |
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| Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser... |
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| Mulberry | ||||||||||||||
| Mutt | Yes (no support for images) |
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| Netscape Messenger | ||||||||||||||
| Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger is a standalone, multiplatform e-mail and news client that was developed by Netscape. Announced on June 11, 2007 as Netscape Mercury, the program was intended to accompany the web browser Netscape Navigator 9, and was based on Mozilla's Thunderbird.The original name Mercury was... |
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| nmh / MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... |
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| Novell Evolution Novell Evolution Evolution or Novell Evolution is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. It has been an official part of GNOME since version 2.8 in September 2004... |
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| Opera Mail | ||||||||||||||
| Outlook Express Outlook Express Outlook Express is an email and news client that is included with Internet Explorer versions 4.0 through 6.0. As such, it is also bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and is available for Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 and Mac OS 9... |
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| Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a donationware , proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by David Harris and his team. It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on Netware networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows... |
Yes (sending is broken) |
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| Pine | (with Pine Privacy Guard) |
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| Pocomail Pocomail Pocomail is an e-mail client that was first developed by Poco Systems in 1999. It was originally designed to provide better spam and attack protection by using its own scripting methods as opposed to using JavaScript and native Microsoft scripting.Pocomail was awarded the PC Magazine Shareware... |
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| SeaMonkey SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code... Mail & Newsgroups |
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| Spicebird Spicebird Spicebird is a personal information manager based on Mozilla Thunderbird's code developed by an Indian company called . It is free and open source software.... |
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| SquirrelMail SquirrelMail SquirrelMail is an Open Source project that provides both a web-based email application and an IMAP proxy server.The webmail portion of the project was started by Nathan and Luke Ehresman in 1999 and is written in the PHP scripting language... |
(depends on antivirus) | |||||||||||||
| Sylpheed Sylpheed Sylpheed is an open source e-mail client and news client licensed under the GPL. It provides easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH Message Handling System. Sylpheed runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux or BSD as well as on Mac OS X and Windows. It uses... |
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| The Bat | ||||||||||||||
| Turnpike Turnpike (software) Turnpike is a British-developed software suite for Microsoft Windows, originally written by Chris Hall and Richard Clayton . The suite, which comprises a combined email and news client as well as a separate program for handling the Internet connection aspects, first appeared in 1995... |
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| Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a free of charge email client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista... |
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| Windows Mail Windows Mail Windows Mail is an email and newsgroup client included in Windows Vista, that was superseded by Windows Live Mail. It is the successor to Outlook Express. Microsoft previewed Windows Mail on Channel 9 on October 10, 2005.... |
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| YAM YAM (Yet Another Mailer) YAM is a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, a configurable GUI and an ARexx interface and many other features which are common for Mail User Agents ... |
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| Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... |
(depends on antivirus) | |||||||||||||
| Client | HTML email | UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks... support |
Image blocking | Junk filtering | Phishing Phishing Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT... filtering |
Thread view | Conver- sation view | PGP Pretty Good Privacy Pretty Good Privacy is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting texts, E-mails, files, directories and whole disk partitions to increase the security... support |
S/MIME S/MIME S/MIME is a standard for public key encryption and signing of MIME data. S/MIME is on an IETF standards track and defined in a number of documents, most importantly RFCs. S/MIME was originally developed by RSA Data Security Inc... support |
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| local | server- side | inline | PGP/MIME or OpenPGP | protocol | OCSP | CRL Certificate revocation list In the operation of some cryptosystems, usually public key infrastructures , a certificate revocation list is a list of certificates that have been revoked, and therefore should not be relied upon.-Revocation States:There are two different states of revocation defined in RFC 3280:* Revoked: A... |
certificates on tokens, smartcards support | |||||||
Messages features
| Client | Label messages | Reformat received messages | Bi-?directional text support Right-to-left A language is described as right-to-left if writing starts from the right of the page, and continues to the left. Right to left scripts are:* Arabic alphabet - used for Arabic, Persian, Urdu and many other languages.... |
Composing messages | Native images preview | Postpone/?scheduled message sending | Native documents preview | ||||||||||||||||
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| with colors | with flag | antidelete | add note | edit headers (e.g., Subject) | Spell checking Spell checker In computing, a spell checker is an application program that flags words in a document that may not be spelled correctly. Spell checkers may be stand-alone capable of operating on a block of text, or as part of a larger application, such as a word processor, email client, electronic dictionary,... |
Signatures Signature block A signature block is a block of text automatically appended at the bottom of an e-mail message, Usenet article, or forum post. This has the effect of "signing off" the message and in a reply message of indicating that no more response follows... |
Bottom-posts replies | jpeg JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... |
gif GIF The Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.... |
bmp Windows bitmap The BMP File Format, also known as Bitmap Image File or Device Independent Bitmap file format or simply a Bitmap, is a Raster graphics image file format used to store bitmap digital images, independently of the display device , especially on Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems.The BMP... |
png | others | txt Text file A text file is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines of electronic text. A text file exists within a computer file system... |
pdf Portable Document Format Portable Document Format is an open standard for document exchange. This file format, created by Adobe Systems in 1993, is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.... |
doc DOC (computing) In computing, DOC or doc is a filename extension for word processing documents; most commonly for Microsoft Word. Historically, the extension was used for documentation in plain-text format, particularly of programs or computer hardware, on a wide range of operating systems... |
xls Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel is a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications... |
odt OpenDocument The Open Document Format for Office Applications is an XML-based file format for representing electronic documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents.... |
ods OpenDocument The Open Document Format for Office Applications is an XML-based file format for representing electronic documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents.... |
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| Citadel Citadel/UX Citadel/UX is a collaboration suite that is descended from the Citadel family of programs which became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a bulletin board system platform. It is designed to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD... |
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| Claws Mail Claws Mail Claws Mail is a free, GTK+-based, open source email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin... |
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| Cone Cone (software) Cone is a text-based e-mail client and news client for Unix-like operating systems. It is developed by the Courier Mail Server developers. Its name stands for "console newsreader and emailer".... |
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| eM Client EM Client eM Client is a Windows-based Communication Client for managing E-mail, calendars, contacts and tasks. It contains integrated Instant Messaging for XMPP and Skype integration.... |
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| EmailTray EmailTray EmailTray is a lightweight email client for the Microsoft Windows operating system. EmailTray was developed by Web CEO Corp., a software development company.EmailTray 2.0 was publicly released on October 7, 2010 as a free desktop email client... |
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| Eureka Email Eureka Email Eureka Email is an e-mail client. It has many features not found in other e-mail clients .-History:Eureka Email began as a project of Sean O' Connor in mid 2002. He finally wrote the program and was available for download in November of that year. Updates were frequent at first, but began to... |
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| Gnus Gnus Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail.Gnus blurs the distinction between news and e-mail, treating them both as "articles" that come from different sources. News articles are kept separate by group, and e-mail can be... |
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| GroupWise | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| i.Scribe / InScribe Scribe Mail i.Scribe is a portable and cross-platform e-mail client for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X with some PIM functionality.Scribe comes in a freeware version: i.Scribe, which is limited to one account and 5 user defined filters and a commercial version: InScribe... |
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| Mail Mail (application) Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,... |
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| Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage was an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of the Microsoft Office 2001 office suite; Office 98, the previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS included... |
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| Microsoft Office Outlook | PowerPoint Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft PowerPoint, usually just called PowerPoint, is a non-free commercial presentation program developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite, and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X operating system... |
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| Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups is an e-mail and news client that is part of the Mozilla Application Suite.... |
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| Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser... |
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| Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger is a standalone, multiplatform e-mail and news client that was developed by Netscape. Announced on June 11, 2007 as Netscape Mercury, the program was intended to accompany the web browser Netscape Navigator 9, and was based on Mozilla's Thunderbird.The original name Mercury was... |
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| nmh / MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... |
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| Novell Evolution Novell Evolution Evolution or Novell Evolution is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. It has been an official part of GNOME since version 2.8 in September 2004... |
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| Outlook Express Outlook Express Outlook Express is an email and news client that is included with Internet Explorer versions 4.0 through 6.0. As such, it is also bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and is available for Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 and Mac OS 9... |
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| Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a donationware , proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by David Harris and his team. It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on Netware networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows... |
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| Pocomail Pocomail Pocomail is an e-mail client that was first developed by Poco Systems in 1999. It was originally designed to provide better spam and attack protection by using its own scripting methods as opposed to using JavaScript and native Microsoft scripting.Pocomail was awarded the PC Magazine Shareware... |
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| SeaMonkey SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code... Mail & Newsgroups |
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| SquirrelMail SquirrelMail SquirrelMail is an Open Source project that provides both a web-based email application and an IMAP proxy server.The webmail portion of the project was started by Nathan and Luke Ehresman in 1999 and is written in the PHP scripting language... |
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| Sylpheed Sylpheed Sylpheed is an open source e-mail client and news client licensed under the GPL. It provides easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH Message Handling System. Sylpheed runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux or BSD as well as on Mac OS X and Windows. It uses... |
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| Turnpike Turnpike (software) Turnpike is a British-developed software suite for Microsoft Windows, originally written by Chris Hall and Richard Clayton . The suite, which comprises a combined email and news client as well as a separate program for handling the Internet connection aspects, first appeared in 1995... |
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| Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a free of charge email client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista... |
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| Windows Mail Windows Mail Windows Mail is an email and newsgroup client included in Windows Vista, that was superseded by Windows Live Mail. It is the successor to Outlook Express. Microsoft previewed Windows Mail on Channel 9 on October 10, 2005.... |
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| YAM YAM (Yet Another Mailer) YAM is a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, a configurable GUI and an ARexx interface and many other features which are common for Mail User Agents ... |
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| Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... |
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| Client | Label messages | Reformat received messages | Bi-?directional text support Right-to-left A language is described as right-to-left if writing starts from the right of the page, and continues to the left. Right to left scripts are:* Arabic alphabet - used for Arabic, Persian, Urdu and many other languages.... |
Composing messages | Native images preview | Postpone/?scheduled message sending | Native documents preview | ||||||||||||||||
| with colors | with flag | antidelete | add note | edit headers (e.g., Subject) | Spell checking Spell checker In computing, a spell checker is an application program that flags words in a document that may not be spelled correctly. Spell checkers may be stand-alone capable of operating on a block of text, or as part of a larger application, such as a word processor, email client, electronic dictionary,... |
Signatures Signature block A signature block is a block of text automatically appended at the bottom of an e-mail message, Usenet article, or forum post. This has the effect of "signing off" the message and in a reply message of indicating that no more response follows... |
Bottom-posts replies | jpeg JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... |
gif GIF The Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.... |
bmp Windows bitmap The BMP File Format, also known as Bitmap Image File or Device Independent Bitmap file format or simply a Bitmap, is a Raster graphics image file format used to store bitmap digital images, independently of the display device , especially on Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems.The BMP... |
png | others | txt Text file A text file is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines of electronic text. A text file exists within a computer file system... |
pdf Portable Document Format Portable Document Format is an open standard for document exchange. This file format, created by Adobe Systems in 1993, is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.... |
doc DOC (computing) In computing, DOC or doc is a filename extension for word processing documents; most commonly for Microsoft Word. Historically, the extension was used for documentation in plain-text format, particularly of programs or computer hardware, on a wide range of operating systems... |
xls Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel is a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications... |
odt OpenDocument The Open Document Format for Office Applications is an XML-based file format for representing electronic documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents.... |
ods OpenDocument The Open Document Format for Office Applications is an XML-based file format for representing electronic documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents.... |
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Database, folders and customization
| Client | Message file format | Encrypted database | Virtual folder Virtual folder In computing, a virtual folder generally denotes an organizing principle for files that is not dependent on location in a hierarchical directory tree... s |
Scheduled backup | New mail notification | Customizable interface | Customizable keybindings | Fragmented messages | Database search with regular expression Regular expression In computing, a regular expression provides a concise and flexible means for "matching" strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. Abbreviations for "regular expression" include "regex" and "regexp"... s support |
Indexed search Indexed search Indexed search, also called the cutpoint method, is an algorithm for discrete-distribution pseudo-random number sampling, invented by Chen and Asau in 1974.- Literature :... |
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| Alpine | mbox Mbox mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file... , mbx, MIX MIX (Email) MIX is a high-performance, indexed, on-disk email storage system that is designed for use with the IMAP protocol. MIX was designed by Mark Crispin, the author of the IMAP protocol. Server support for it has been included in releases of UW IMAP since 2006, Panda IMAP, and Messaging Architects... , maildir Maildir The Maildir e-mail format is a common way of storing e-mail messages, where each message is kept in a separate file with a unique name, and each folder is a directory... (with patches), MMDF MMDF MMDF, the Multichannel Memorandum Distribution Facility, is a message transfer agent , a computer program designed to transmit email.-History:... , tenex, mtx, MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... , mx, news, phile |
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| Citadel Citadel/UX Citadel/UX is a collaboration suite that is descended from the Citadel family of programs which became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a bulletin board system platform. It is designed to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD... |
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| Claws Mail Claws Mail Claws Mail is a free, GTK+-based, open source email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin... |
MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... , mbox Mbox mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file... |
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| Cone Cone (software) Cone is a text-based e-mail client and news client for Unix-like operating systems. It is developed by the Courier Mail Server developers. Its name stands for "console newsreader and emailer".... |
mbox Mbox mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file... , maildir Maildir The Maildir e-mail format is a common way of storing e-mail messages, where each message is kept in a separate file with a unique name, and each folder is a directory... |
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| eM Client EM Client eM Client is a Windows-based Communication Client for managing E-mail, calendars, contacts and tasks. It contains integrated Instant Messaging for XMPP and Skype integration.... |
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| EmailTray EmailTray EmailTray is a lightweight email client for the Microsoft Windows operating system. EmailTray was developed by Web CEO Corp., a software development company.EmailTray 2.0 was publicly released on October 7, 2010 as a free desktop email client... |
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| Eudora | mbox Mbox mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file... |
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| Eureka Email Eureka Email Eureka Email is an e-mail client. It has many features not found in other e-mail clients .-History:Eureka Email began as a project of Sean O' Connor in mid 2002. He finally wrote the program and was available for download in November of that year. Updates were frequent at first, but began to... |
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| Gnus Gnus Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail.Gnus blurs the distinction between news and e-mail, treating them both as "articles" that come from different sources. News articles are kept separate by group, and e-mail can be... |
babyl, maildir Maildir The Maildir e-mail format is a common way of storing e-mail messages, where each message is kept in a separate file with a unique name, and each folder is a directory... , mbox Mbox mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file... , MMDF MMDF MMDF, the Multichannel Memorandum Distribution Facility, is a message transfer agent , a computer program designed to transmit email.-History:... , news, rnews, SOUP, outlook, oe-dbx |
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| i.Scribe / InScribe Scribe Mail i.Scribe is a portable and cross-platform e-mail client for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X with some PIM functionality.Scribe comes in a freeware version: i.Scribe, which is limited to one account and 5 user defined filters and a commercial version: InScribe... |
Proprietary (sqlite SQLite SQLite is an ACID-compliant embedded relational database management system contained in a relatively small C programming library. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain and implements most of the SQL standard... ) |
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| IBM Lotus Notes | Proprietary | http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-Notes_Encryption/#N10102 | |||||||||||||
| KMail | mbox Mbox mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file... , maildir Maildir The Maildir e-mail format is a common way of storing e-mail messages, where each message is kept in a separate file with a unique name, and each folder is a directory... |
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| Mail Mail (application) Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,... |
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| Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage was an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of the Microsoft Office 2001 office suite; Office 98, the previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS included... |
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| Microsoft Office Outlook | Proprietary (Personal Storage Table) | ||||||||||||||
| Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups is an e-mail and news client that is part of the Mozilla Application Suite.... |
mbox Mbox mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file... |
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| Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser... |
mbox Mbox mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file... |
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| Mulberry | mbox Mbox mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file... |
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| Mutt | mbox Mbox mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file... , MMDF MMDF MMDF, the Multichannel Memorandum Distribution Facility, is a message transfer agent , a computer program designed to transmit email.-History:... , MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... , maildir Maildir The Maildir e-mail format is a common way of storing e-mail messages, where each message is kept in a separate file with a unique name, and each folder is a directory... |
(with compressed folders patch http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/compressed/) | (has limit command) | no integrated solutions available | No (easily integrated with mairix) | ||||||||||
| Netscape Messenger | mbox Mbox mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file... |
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| Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger is a standalone, multiplatform e-mail and news client that was developed by Netscape. Announced on June 11, 2007 as Netscape Mercury, the program was intended to accompany the web browser Netscape Navigator 9, and was based on Mozilla's Thunderbird.The original name Mercury was... |
mbox Mbox mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file... |
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| nmh / MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... |
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| Novell Evolution Novell Evolution Evolution or Novell Evolution is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. It has been an official part of GNOME since version 2.8 in September 2004... |
maildir Maildir The Maildir e-mail format is a common way of storing e-mail messages, where each message is kept in a separate file with a unique name, and each folder is a directory... , mbox Mbox mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file... , MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... |
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| Opera Mail | mbox Mbox mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file... (9.10 and Below) |
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| Outlook Express Outlook Express Outlook Express is an email and news client that is included with Internet Explorer versions 4.0 through 6.0. As such, it is also bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and is available for Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 and Mac OS 9... |
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| Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a donationware , proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by David Harris and his team. It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on Netware networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows... |
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| Pine | mbox Mbox mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file... , mbx, MIX MIX MIX is a hypothetical computer used in Donald Knuth's monograph, The Art of Computer Programming . MIX's model number is 1009, which was derived by combining the model numbers and names of several contemporaneous, commercial machines deemed significant by the author... , maildir Maildir The Maildir e-mail format is a common way of storing e-mail messages, where each message is kept in a separate file with a unique name, and each folder is a directory... (with patches), MMDF MMDF MMDF, the Multichannel Memorandum Distribution Facility, is a message transfer agent , a computer program designed to transmit email.-History:... , tenex, mtx, MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... , mx, news, phile |
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| Pocomail Pocomail Pocomail is an e-mail client that was first developed by Poco Systems in 1999. It was originally designed to provide better spam and attack protection by using its own scripting methods as opposed to using JavaScript and native Microsoft scripting.Pocomail was awarded the PC Magazine Shareware... |
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| SeaMonkey SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code... Mail & Newsgroups |
mbox Mbox mbox is a generic term for a family of related file formats used for holding collections of electronic mail messages. All messages in an mbox mailbox are concatenated and stored as plain text in a single file... |
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| SquirrelMail SquirrelMail SquirrelMail is an Open Source project that provides both a web-based email application and an IMAP proxy server.The webmail portion of the project was started by Nathan and Luke Ehresman in 1999 and is written in the PHP scripting language... |
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| Sylpheed Sylpheed Sylpheed is an open source e-mail client and news client licensed under the GPL. It provides easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH Message Handling System. Sylpheed runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux or BSD as well as on Mac OS X and Windows. It uses... |
MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... |
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| The Bat | Proprietary | Yes (RC2 128 bit) (with Pro and Voyager version) |
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| Turnpike Turnpike (software) Turnpike is a British-developed software suite for Microsoft Windows, originally written by Chris Hall and Richard Clayton . The suite, which comprises a combined email and news client as well as a separate program for handling the Internet connection aspects, first appeared in 1995... |
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| Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a free of charge email client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista... |
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| Windows Mail Windows Mail Windows Mail is an email and newsgroup client included in Windows Vista, that was superseded by Windows Live Mail. It is the successor to Outlook Express. Microsoft previewed Windows Mail on Channel 9 on October 10, 2005.... |
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| YAM YAM (Yet Another Mailer) YAM is a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, a configurable GUI and an ARexx interface and many other features which are common for Mail User Agents ... |
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| Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... |
File system File system A file system is a means to organize data expected to be retained after a program terminates by providing procedures to store, retrieve and update data, as well as manage the available space on the device which contain it. A file system organizes data in an efficient manner and is tuned to the... |
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| Client | Message file format | Encrypted database | Virtual folder Virtual folder In computing, a virtual folder generally denotes an organizing principle for files that is not dependent on location in a hierarchical directory tree... s |
Scheduled backup | New mail notification | Customizable interface | Customizable keybindings | Fragmented messages | Database search with regular expression Regular expression In computing, a regular expression provides a concise and flexible means for "matching" strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. Abbreviations for "regular expression" include "regex" and "regexp"... s support |
Indexed search Indexed search Indexed search, also called the cutpoint method, is an algorithm for discrete-distribution pseudo-random number sampling, invented by Chen and Asau in 1974.- Literature :... |
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| new | reply | forward | read confirmation | save | JavaScript JavaScript JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.... |
VBScript VBScript VBScript is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic. It is designed as a “lightweight” language with a fast interpreter for use in a wide variety of Microsoft environments... |
PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... Scripts |
Python Python (programming language) Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive... |
Regular expression Regular expression In computing, a regular expression provides a concise and flexible means for "matching" strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. Abbreviations for "regular expression" include "regex" and "regexp"... s |
Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities... |
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| Citadel Citadel/UX Citadel/UX is a collaboration suite that is descended from the Citadel family of programs which became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a bulletin board system platform. It is designed to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD... |
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| Claws Mail Claws Mail Claws Mail is a free, GTK+-based, open source email and news client. It offers easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format and also the Mbox mailbox format via a plugin... |
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| Cone Cone (software) Cone is a text-based e-mail client and news client for Unix-like operating systems. It is developed by the Courier Mail Server developers. Its name stands for "console newsreader and emailer".... |
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| eM Client EM Client eM Client is a Windows-based Communication Client for managing E-mail, calendars, contacts and tasks. It contains integrated Instant Messaging for XMPP and Skype integration.... |
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| Eureka Email Eureka Email Eureka Email is an e-mail client. It has many features not found in other e-mail clients .-History:Eureka Email began as a project of Sean O' Connor in mid 2002. He finally wrote the program and was available for download in November of that year. Updates were frequent at first, but began to... |
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| Gnus Gnus Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail.Gnus blurs the distinction between news and e-mail, treating them both as "articles" that come from different sources. News articles are kept separate by group, and e-mail can be... |
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| i.Scribe / InScribe Scribe Mail i.Scribe is a portable and cross-platform e-mail client for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X with some PIM functionality.Scribe comes in a freeware version: i.Scribe, which is limited to one account and 5 user defined filters and a commercial version: InScribe... |
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| IBM Lotus Notes | http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.help.domino80x.doc/DOC/H_CREATE_A_RECOGNIZER_OVER.html | |||||||||||||
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| Mail Mail (application) Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,... |
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| Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage Microsoft Entourage was an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of the Microsoft Office 2001 office suite; Office 98, the previous version of Microsoft Office for Mac OS included... |
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| Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups is an e-mail and news client that is part of the Mozilla Application Suite.... |
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| Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser... |
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| Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger 9 Netscape Messenger is a standalone, multiplatform e-mail and news client that was developed by Netscape. Announced on June 11, 2007 as Netscape Mercury, the program was intended to accompany the web browser Netscape Navigator 9, and was based on Mozilla's Thunderbird.The original name Mercury was... |
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| nmh / MH MH Message Handling System The MH Message Handling System is a free, open source e-mail client. It is different from almost all other mail reading systems in that, instead of a single program, it is made from several different programs which are designed to work from the command line provided by the shell on Unix-like... |
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| Novell Evolution Novell Evolution Evolution or Novell Evolution is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. It has been an official part of GNOME since version 2.8 in September 2004... |
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| Outlook Express Outlook Express Outlook Express is an email and news client that is included with Internet Explorer versions 4.0 through 6.0. As such, it is also bundled with several versions of Microsoft Windows, from Windows 98 to Windows Server 2003, and is available for Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 and Mac OS 9... |
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| Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a donationware , proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by David Harris and his team. It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on Netware networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows... |
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| Pocomail Pocomail Pocomail is an e-mail client that was first developed by Poco Systems in 1999. It was originally designed to provide better spam and attack protection by using its own scripting methods as opposed to using JavaScript and native Microsoft scripting.Pocomail was awarded the PC Magazine Shareware... |
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| SeaMonkey SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code... Mail & Newsgroups |
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| SquirrelMail SquirrelMail SquirrelMail is an Open Source project that provides both a web-based email application and an IMAP proxy server.The webmail portion of the project was started by Nathan and Luke Ehresman in 1999 and is written in the PHP scripting language... |
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| Sylpheed Sylpheed Sylpheed is an open source e-mail client and news client licensed under the GPL. It provides easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH Message Handling System. Sylpheed runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux or BSD as well as on Mac OS X and Windows. It uses... |
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| The Bat | account folder address book group contact |
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| Turnpike Turnpike (software) Turnpike is a British-developed software suite for Microsoft Windows, originally written by Chris Hall and Richard Clayton . The suite, which comprises a combined email and news client as well as a separate program for handling the Internet connection aspects, first appeared in 1995... |
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| Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a free of charge email client from Microsoft's Windows Live set of products. It is intended to be a successor for Outlook Express on Windows XP and Windows Mail on Windows Vista... |
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| Windows Mail Windows Mail Windows Mail is an email and newsgroup client included in Windows Vista, that was superseded by Windows Live Mail. It is the successor to Outlook Express. Microsoft previewed Windows Mail on Channel 9 on October 10, 2005.... |
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| YAM YAM (Yet Another Mailer) YAM is a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, a configurable GUI and an ARexx interface and many other features which are common for Mail User Agents ... |
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| Zimbra Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components... |
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| new | reply | forward | read confirmation | save | JavaScript JavaScript JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.... |
VBScript VBScript VBScript is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic. It is designed as a “lightweight” language with a fast interpreter for use in a wide variety of Microsoft environments... |
PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... Scripts |
Python Python (programming language) Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive... |
Regular expression Regular expression In computing, a regular expression provides a concise and flexible means for "matching" strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. Abbreviations for "regular expression" include "regex" and "regexp"... s |
Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities... |
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See also
- Unicode and email
- List of personal information managers
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External links
- UAlbany ITS: Email Services - Email Choices: Mail Client Comparison Summary Tables
- Email client comparison
- T&B : Email : Clients (of historical interest—last updated in 1999)
- Mail User Agents for Linux Based Platforms (includes many email clients not listed in the above tables)
- Remail - research by The Collaborative User Experience group at IBMIBMInternational Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
- a CSS implementation comparison of many well known mail clients