Five Free E-Mail Clients

The software in this series has been tested, checked and found to be worthy of a place in this post. Should you feel there is a more worthwhile FREE alternative, submit the title and a link for testing and if approved, it will be added to the list.

Opera Mail

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This email client is intergrated with the famous Opera browser so if you dont want to use the browser then stop reading now.
Opera email client is a slick and flexible interface that will satisfy almost all your email needs, and Opera integrates RSS feeds in this experience as well. It is a slick, small, fast and secure email client and RSS feed reader and its mail shows up in all relevant places automatically and can be searched with speed in Opera. It comes with a precise spam filter and smart labels that presorts mail and learn by example.

Features:
• Access multiple accounts
• Intergrated spam filter
• Free-form labelling
• Quick reply
• Addons
• Skinable

Thunderbird

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Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox. Advantages compared with the most popular web e-mail application: (1) Excellent Mail-Filter Management, filters can be sorted; (2) E-Mails can be saved as txt-files, (3) Pictures/screenshots can be pasted directly from the clipboard in new mails without storing and loading again from harddisk.

Features:
• Migration Assistant
• One click address book
• Attachment reminder
• Activity manager
• Quick filter toolbar
• Smart folders

DreamMail

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DreamMail is one of the best Chinese email client software. It was designed to handle multi-user and multi email account. The supported protocols are SMTP, eSMTP, POP 3, Hotmail and Yahoo... With the additional remote mailbox access function, you might use it to logon your mail account remotely and check the mail content, preview even to delete it directly from the server; The combination use of mail filter, blacklist and white list, can sort out the junk mail effectively.

Features:
• Multi accounts & multi users
• Templates and signatures manager
• Antispam filter
• Miscellaneous protocols management
• Messages filtering

Mulberry

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Mulberry is a powerful, easy to use electronic mail (email) and calendar program that allows you to send, access, and manage email and calendars. Mulberry also helps you manage other related information, such as contact information.To ensure maximum compatibility with existing email servers, Mulberry uses Internet-standard protocols: IMAP and POP3 for reading email messages, SMTP for sending email messages, MIME for sending and receiving attachments within messages, IMSP and ACAP for storage of preferences and address books on a remote server, and LDAP for address lookups. It also uses http, WebDAV and CalDAV for storing and retrieving calendar data.

Features:
• Open source
• Good support
• IMAP, POP3, MIME, LDAP etc.

Windows Live Mail

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Windows Live Mail is a comfortable email program that lets you access IMAP, POP and Windows Live Hotmail accounts with verve and ambition to connect with Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Calendar, your blog and RSS news feeds, too. It offers solid spam filters, fast search and a few ready-made search folders, but it could do better helping you organize and manage mail.

Features:
• Multiple email accounts
• Organize conversations
• Add events to your calendar
• Spam filtering
• Access Windows Live hotmail accounts
• Instant messaging

 

Last night a new "member" joined the forum, went directly to this thread and posted another alternative to the list posted by Alan. Alan is a trusted member and adviser to this forum. The new member had a number of suspicious aspects to his registration information.

I have no idea whether or not the recommendation he posted was good or not. The fact is that it appeared to be a commercial post and, therefore spam under out rules. If this becomes a pattern where posts appear from sources not known to us we may have to eliminate this kind of thread. That would be unfortunate but we need to protect our members first.

The member in question was banned from posting.

 

Modified to the new format.