Email Addresses

Email clients are applications used to access remote mail servers, retrieve mail from them, compose and send. Such email clients as Outlook, or Eudora are widely used by the majority of users. Here are several more email clients worth mentioning.

Thunderbird is a full-feature email program designed to help Internet users better manage their inbox and stay informed. Thunderbird offers a great number of ways of organizing and displaying your folders. You can display your folders by recently viewed, favorites, or folders containing unread messages. It allows you to “tag” messages with descriptors such as “Done” or “To Do” as well as create your own tags that are specific to your needs. Thunderbird works on Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000 and XP, as well as Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Solaris.

Microsoft Outlook offers an excellent solution for managing your information. Office Outlook 2007 innovations enables you to quickly search your communications, organize your work, and better share your information with others — all from one place. Office Outlook calendaring functionality provide easy ways to share your calendar with anyone within or outside of your organization, giving your important contacts immediate access to your information. Now you can use it to search for keywords, dates, or other flexible criteria to locate items in your e-mail, calendar, contacts, or tasks to save valuable time. Instant Search is fully integrated within the interface so you never have to leave Outlook to find the information you need.

Outlook Express – is one of the most popular e-mail programs. It comes free with all Windows and Macintosh operating systems now. It has a simple interface, and allows users to send and receive e-mail as well as newsgroup messages. Unfortunately, it is targeted for viruses a lot more than other e-mail clients. So you have to be very careful when opening e-mail messages in Outlook Express, as virus code can be executed very easily.

The Bat! is an mail client for Windows, specializing in POP3 email support. Unlike other email applications, The Bat! does not start scripts automatically. The Bat! benefits of its own HTML viewing mechanism – Robin HTML Viewer, as well as of its own image viewing module. These mechanisms protect you from viruses aimed at operating system mechanisms vulnerability. Windows Vista users should know that The Bat! benefits of Windows Vista’s Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution Prevention (DEP) for protecting the computer from viruses and malicious codes spread via email. You can download a fully functional demo version of the software which will operate for 30 days; after that, you’ll have to buy a license to continue using it.

Eudora is an email program that uses the POP and IMAP protocols. Eudora runs on both the PC and Macintosh. A freeware package, Eudora Light, is also available. It allows to easily import mail, addresses and attachments from Outlook to Eudora, making switching to Eudora easier than ever. Eudora doesn’t allow anything to run from your mail unless you want it to, stopping viruses and Trojan horses cold. Eudora also warns users about opening emails with potentially dangerous content.

Pegasus is a free electronic mail client suitable for use by single or multiple users on single computers or on local area networks. It is extremely feature-rich and powerful. Small and fast, Pegasus Mail can be left running permanently on the workstation and includes powerful tools to notify the user when new mail arrives. It protects you from even the worst HTML-borne virus and Trojans, and protects your privacy by intercepting web bugs.

PocoMail allows to easily manage your contacts. You can automate email processing in a myriad of ways, from Filters and Events to easy-to-use PocoScripts. Instantly create AutoText snippets to use throughout the program, and subscribe to your favorite RSS feeds and Newsgroups to be read on demand or delivered with your email. PocoMail doesn’t use the Internet Explorer component to preview your HTML messages. Instead it uses an internal HTML viewer. PocoMail does not understand VBScript or JavaScript, which are used to write email viruses.

Mulberry is an email, calendar and contact client that supports various Internet standard protocols. Currently Mac OS X and Linux code bases are available, Win32 will follow soon. Mulberry is now Open Source, distributed under an Apache 2 style license.

FastCheck provides a subset of the functionality of most IMAP clients like Outlook Express, Mozilla, etc–specifically, it tells you when you have new mail. It allows to monitor as many folders and accounts as you want. If you have a direct connection to the Internet, IMAP is used to connect to FastMail.FM, so you will be immediately notified of any incoming e-mail.

Becky enables creating multiple mailboxes, and multiple “profiles” for each mailbox. This feature is especially useful if you use laptop computer. There’s an option to switch between several different settings, like “LAN” and dial-up, for the same mailbox. You can write HTML e-mail with Becky, if you have Microsoft Internet Explorer5 or higher installed. A free 30 days trial is available.

Pine is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Pine is available for Unix as well as for personal computers running a Microsoft operating system.