- Comparison of email clients
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The following tables compare general and technical features of a number of e-mail client programs. Please see the individual products articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up to date.
Contents
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.
Release history
A brief overview of the release history.
Client First public release First stable release Latest stable release Date Version Date Version Alpine November 2006 0.8 December 2007 1.00 2.02 (October 2, 2010) Becky! Internet Mail ? ? ? ? 2.58 (29 September 2011[1]) Citadel 1987 ? 1988 1.00 7.85 (January 3, 2011) Claws Mail May 2001 0.4.67 January 2005 1.0.0 3.7.10 (August 27, 2011) Cone May 2003 0.50 May 2003 0.50 0.89 (May 11, 2011) Courier June, 2004 3.5 discontinued discontinued discontinued Elm ? ? ? ? 2.5.8 (August 18, 2005) EmailTray October 2010 2.0 March 2011 3.11 3.11 (August 12, 2011) EM Client ? ? ? ? 2.7 (Sept 14, 2010) Eudora 1988[2] ? 1988[2] ? 7.1 (Windows), 6.2.4 (Mac OS) (October 11, 2006) Eureka Email November 2002 1.0 November 2002 1.0 2.2 (March 1, 2005) Gnus 1987[3] ? February 1, 1988[3] 2.0 5.13 GroupWise ? ? 1986 1.0 8.0.2 HP3 (September 14, 2011) i.Scribe / InScribe 1999 1.00 ? ? 1.89 (December 15, 2007) IBM Lotus Notes 1989 1.0 1989 1.0 8.5.3 (October 3, 2011) KMail October 1998 Alpha February 1999 1.0.17 4.7.3 (2 November 2011)[4] Mail September 13, 2000 Public Beta March 24, 2001 1.0 4.5 (1084) (March 21, 2011) Microsoft Entourage ? ? ? ? 2008 (12.3.1) (September 13, 2011) Microsoft Office Outlook 1997 97 1997 97 Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups December 7, 1998 "Preview" March 19, 1999 M3 discontinued Mozilla Thunderbird July 28, 2003 0.1 December 7, 2004 1.0 8.0 (November 8, 2011) Mulberry September 20, 1996 1.0 September 20, 1996 1.0 4.0.8 (February 21, 2007) Mutt 1995 ? ? ? 1.4.2.3 (June 9, 2007) Netscape Messenger ? ? ? ? discontinued Netscape Messenger 9 November 15, 2007 9.0a1 discontinued discontinued discontinued nmh / MH 1979 ? ? ? 1.3 (June 1, 2008) Novell Evolution 11 May 2000 0.0 3 December 2001 1.0 3.2.1 (October 17, 2011) Opera Mail September 1996 2.1b1 December 1996 2.1 11.52 (Build 1100) (October 19, 2011) Outlook Express 1996 3.0 ? ? 6.0 SP2 (August 25, 2004) Pegasus Mail 1990 ? 1990 ? 4.62 (September 6, 2011) Pine January 15, 1992 2.00 January 15, 1992 2.00 4.64 (September 28, 2005) Pocomail 1999 ? ? ? 4.8 build 4400 (April 6, 2009) SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups September 15, 2005 1.0a January 30, 2006 1.0 2.4.1 (September 29, 2011)[5] SquirrelMail December 1999 0.1 January 2001 1.0 1.4.22 (July 12, 2011) Sylpheed January 2000 0.1.0 December 2004 1.0.0 3.1.2 (September 8, 2011) The Bat! March 1997 1.0 Beta March 1998 1.00 Build 1310 5.0.18 (July 1, 2011) Turnpike circa 1996 1.0 circa 1996 1.0 6.06 (May 23, 2006) Windows Live Mail ? ? ? ? 2011 (Build 15.4.3538.0513) (July 6, 2011) Windows Mail ? ? ? ? ? YAM 1995 1.0 1995 1.0 2.6p1 (September 26, 2010) Zimbra November, 2005 Beta March, 2006 3.5 1.0 RC2 (build 1513) (March 4, 2009) Client Date Version Date Version Latest stable release First public release First stable release Operating system support
The operating systems on which the clients can run natively (without emulation).
Client Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix FreeDOS, DOS Other Alpine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Balsa No No Yes Yes No No No Becky! Internet Mail Yes No No No No No No Citadel No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Claws Mail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Cone No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Courier Yes No No No No No No eM Client Yes No No No No No No Elm No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No EmailTray Yes No No No No No No Eudora Yes Yes No No No No No Eureka Email Yes No No No No No No Gnus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Emacs GroupWise Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? i.Scribe / InScribe Yes Yes Yes No No No No IBM Lotus Notes Yes Yes Yes No No No No IncrediMail Yes No No No No No No KMail No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Mail No Included No No No No iOS Microsoft Entourage No Terminated (2008) No No No No No Microsoft Office Outlook Yes Yes No No No No No Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Terminated (1.7.13) No No Mozilla Thunderbird Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Mulberry Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Mutt Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [6] No Netscape Messenger Terminated (4.80) No No Netscape Messenger 9 Terminated (9.0a1) No No nmh / MH No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Novell Evolution Beta No Yes Yes Yes No No Opera Mail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Outlook Express Included (up to XP) No No No No No No Pegasus Mail Yes No No No No Yes No Pine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Terminated (3.96) [7] No Pocomail Yes No No No No No No Postbox Yes Yes No No No No No SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Sylpheed Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Spicebird Yes planned Yes Yes No No No SquirrelMail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No The Bat! Yes No No No No No No Turnpike Yes No No No No No No Windows Live Mail Yes No No No No No No Windows Mail Included (Vista) No No No No No No YAM No No No No No No AmigaOS Zimbra Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Client Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix FreeDOS, DOS Other Protocol support
Communication and access protocol support
What e-mail and related protocols and standards are supported by each client.
Client POP3
fetch all messagesPOP3
selected by filterPOP3
selected by userIMAP4 SMTP NNTP LDAP v2 LDAP v3 EWS IPv6 MAPI Alpine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Mail Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes ? Yes ? ? Becky! Internet Mail Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes [Note 1] Yes ? ? ? ? Citadel ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Claws Mail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ? Cone Yes No No [Note 2] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Courier Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes ? ? ? eM Client Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No ? ? ? Elm ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? EmailTray Yes No No Yes Yes No No No No No No Eureka Email ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Gnus Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? GroupWise Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? i.Scribe / InScribe Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes [Note 3] Yes [Note 3] No No Yes IBM Lotus Notes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? KMail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No [Note 4] Yes ? ? ? ? Microsoft Entourage Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes No Yes Partial ? ? Microsoft Entourage 2008, Web Services Edition Yes ? ? Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes ? ? Microsoft Office Outlook Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes ? ? ? Yes Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Mozilla Thunderbird Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Partial Partial[8] extensible[9] Yes ? Mulberry Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes ? ? ? ? Mutt Yes No (possible with POP3 browser) No (possible with POP3 browser) Yes Yes No (slrn looks alike) Partial (resolve real names through NSS) ? ? ? ? Netscape Messenger Yes ? ? Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? Netscape Messenger 9 Yes ? ? Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? nmh / MH Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Novell Evolution Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Opera Mail Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No ? ? ? Outlook Express Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? Pegasus Mail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [Note 5] Yes ? ? ? ? Pine Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No ? ? ? Pocomail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No ? ? ? SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Partial ? ? Yes ? SquirrelMail Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes ? ? ? Sylpheed Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No Spicebird Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Partial ? ? ? ? The Bat! Yes Yes [Note 6] Yes [Note 7] Yes Yes Yes [Note 8] Yes No ? Yes Yes Turnpike Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? Windows Live Mail Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? Windows Mail Yes No No Yes Yes ? ? ? ? Yes ? YAM Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No ? ? ? Zimbra Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Client POP3
fetch all messagesPOP3
selected by filterPOP3
selected by userIMAP4 SMTP NNTP LDAP v2 LDAP v3 EWS IPv6 MAPI Client IMSP ACAP RSS 0.91 Feeds RSS 1.0 Feeds RSS 2.0 Feeds ATOM Feeds iCalendar MAPI/RPC Alpine ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Becky! Internet Mail ? ? Yes [Note 9] Yes [Note 9] Yes [Note 9] Yes [Note 9] ? ? Citadel ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Claws Mail ? ? No Yes [Note 10] Yes [Note 10] Yes [Note 10] Yes [Note 11] ? Cone No No No No No No No ? Courier No No No No No No No ? eM Client No No Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? Elm ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? EmailTray No No No No No No No No Eudora No Yes No No No No No ? Eureka Email ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Gnus ? ? Yes Yes Yes No ? ? GroupWise ? No ? ? ? ? Yes ? i.Scribe / InScribe No No No No No No No Yes IBM Lotus Notes No No Yes [Note 12] Yes Yes Yes Yes ? KMail ? ? Yes [Note 13] Yes [Note 13] Yes [Note 13] Yes [Note 13] Yes [Note 14] ? Mail ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [Note 15] ? Microsoft Entourage ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? Microsoft Office Outlook ? ? Yes [Note 16] Yes [Note 16] Yes [Note 16] Yes [Note 16] Yes [Note 17] Yes Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Mozilla Thunderbird No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [Note 18] Yes [Note 19] Mulberry Yes Yes No No No No Yes ? Mutt ? ? No No No No No ? Netscape Messenger ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Netscape Messenger 9 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? nmh / MH ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Novell Evolution No No No [Note 20] No [Note 20] No [Note 20] No Yes Yes Opera Mail ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes No ? Outlook Express ? ? No No No No No ? Pegasus Mail ? ? Yes [Note 5] Yes [Note 5] Yes [Note 5] ? ? ? Pine No No No No No No No ? Pocomail No No Yes Yes Yes No No ? SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [Note 18] ? SquirrelMail ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Sylpheed No No No No No No No No Spicebird No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [Note 18] No The Bat! No No Yes [Note 21] Yes [Note 21] Yes [Note 21] Yes [Note 21] No Yes Turnpike ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Windows Live Mail ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes No ? Windows Mail ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? YAM No No No No No No No ? Zimbra ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Client IMSP ACAP RSS 0.91 Feeds RSS 1.0 Feeds RSS 2.0 Feeds ATOM Feeds iCalendar MAPI/RPC - ^ Becky! requires FRNews or BkNews plugin installed for handling NNTP.
- ^ Cone has an option to either keep all POP3 mail on the server, or download all messages from the POP3 mailbox.
- ^ a b i.Scribe / InScribe requires a plugin to handle LDAP.
- ^ KDE supports Newsgroups (NNTP) by the use of KNode
- ^ a b c d Pegasus Mail can convert Newsgroup messages and/or RSS feeds to e-mails through the use of free add-ons.
- ^ Selective Download filters can skip/delete messages on POP3 server based on header (sender, recipient, subject, etc) information, this doesn't require to retrieve the full message body from the server.
- ^ Message Dispatcher allows the user to decide which messages should be retrieved, deleted or skipped based on the header information (sender, recipient, subject, etc) displayed to the user.
- ^ The BAT! requires MyGate plugin installed for handling NNTP.
- ^ a b c d Becky! requires BkBlogReader or BkRSSviewer or B.F.R or BkRssReader plugin installed for handling RSS and ATOM.
- ^ a b c RSSyl plugin is required to read RSS and ATOM in Claws Mail.
- ^ vCalendar plugin is required to handle iCalendar in Claws Mail.
- ^ Studio Blog Reader is one RSS reader application for IBM Lotus Notes. IBM Lotus Notes version 8.x introduced a native RSS reader.
- ^ a b c d KDE supports feeds by the use of Akregator
- ^ KDE supports iCal by the use of KOrganizer
- ^ With Mail version 4, in Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. In previous versions, Mail only links it with iCal.
- ^ a b c d Support of feeds is available in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. Earlier versions require RSSPopper plug-in.
- ^ Microsoft Outlook support of iCalendar varies by version.
- ^ a b c iCalendar is supported with an extension.
- ^ Mozilla Thunderbird only supports SimpleMAPI.[citation needed]
- ^ a b c The evolution-rss plugin (provided as a separate package by many distributions provides the RSS functionality in Evolution.
- ^ a b c d The BAT! requires rss2mail or rss2pop3 plugin installed for handling RSS and ATOM.
Authentication support
Client Regular MSN (NTLM) browser login
Compuserve (RPA)
MD5 APOP [Note 1] CRAM-HMAC [Note 2] DIGEST-MD5 with hardware token Biometric SMTP Auth [Note 3] SSL/TLS Client Certificate LOGIN PLAIN MD5 SHA1 RIPEMD Alpine Yes Yes No No No Yes No No No No No Yes No Citadel ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Claws Mail Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes [Note 4] ? Yes Yes Cone Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes No No No No Yes Yes Courier Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes eM Client Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes Elm ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? EmailTray Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes No ? No No Yes No Eudora Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No ? Eureka Email ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Gnus Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? Yes ? GroupWise ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? i.Scribe / InScribe Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No No Yes No IBM Lotus Notes Yes ? Yes No No No ? ? ? Yes No Yes ? KMail Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes No No Yes Yes Mail Yes Yes Yes [Note 5] No Yes Yes [Note 6] ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? Microsoft Entourage Yes No Yes ? ? Yes ? ? ? Yes ? Yes Yes Microsoft Office Outlook Yes No Yes No No No No No No No No Yes No Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups Yes ? ? Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Mozilla Thunderbird Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No [3] Yes No Yes Yes Mulberry Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No No Yes No No Yes Yes Mutt Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes No No Yes No No 1.5.15 Yes Netscape Messenger ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Netscape Messenger 9 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? nmh / MH ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Novell Evolution Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes No No Yes Yes Opera Mail Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No No No No Yes Yes Outlook Express Yes No Yes No No No No No No No No Yes No Pegasus Mail Yes ? No No Yes No No No No No No Yes Yes Pine Yes Yes No No No Yes No No No No No Yes No Pocomail ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No [4] Yes No Yes Yes SquirrelMail Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ? Yes ? Sylpheed Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No No No No Yes No The Bat! Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes No Turnpike ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Windows Live Mail Yes No Yes No Yes No No No No No No No No Windows Mail ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? YAM Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? AmiSSL Zimbra Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? Client Regular MSN (NTLM) browser login
Compuserve (RPA)
MD5 APOP [Note 1] CRAM-HMAC [Note 2] DIGEST-MD5 with hardware token Biometric SMTP Auth [Note 3] SSL/TLS Client Certificate LOGIN PLAIN MD5 SHA1 RIPEMD SSL and TLS support
Client Secure POP3 Secure IMAP4 Secure SMTP Secure NNTP Secure LDAP OCSP [Note 1] CRL [Note 2] SSL TLS [Note 3] SSL TLS [Note 3] SSL TLS [Note 4] SSL TLS SSL TLS Alpine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? Becky! Internet Mail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? Citadel ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Claws Mail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Cone Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No Courier No No No No No No No No No No No No eM Client Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No Elm ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? EmailTray Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No Eudora Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes ? ? Eureka Email ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Gnus ? ? Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? GroupWise ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? i.Scribe / InScribe Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No No No No IBM Lotus Notes Yes ? Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ? Yes Yes KMail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No ? ? ? ? Mail Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? No No Yes ? ? ? Microsoft Entourage Yes ? Yes ? Yes ? Yes ? Yes ? ? ? Microsoft Office Outlook Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Mozilla Thunderbird Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Mulberry Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes ? ? Mutt Yes Yes Yes Yes 1.5.15 1.5.15 ? ? ? ? ? ? Netscape Messenger ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Netscape Messenger 9 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? nmh / MH ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Novell Evolution Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Opera Mail Yes Partial [Note 5] Yes Partial [Note 5] Yes Partial [Note 5] Yes No No No ? ? Outlook Express Yes No Yes No Yes No ? ? ? ? ? ? Pegasus Mail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? ? ? Pine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No ? ? Pocomail ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SquirrelMail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes ? ? Sylpheed Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? Spicebird Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes The Bat! Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No Yes [Note 6] Yes [Note 6] Turnpike ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Windows Live Mail Yes No Yes No Yes No ? ? ? ? ? ? Windows Mail Yes ? Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? YAM ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Zimbra Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Client Secure POP3 Secure IMAP4 Secure SMTP Secure NNTP Secure LDAP OCSP [Note 1] CRL [Note 2] SSL TLS [Note 3] SSL TLS [Note 3] SSL TLS [Note 4] SSL TLS SSL TLS - ^ a b Online Certificate Status Protocol - Description: RFC 2560
- ^ a b Certificate Revocation List - Description: RFC 3280
- ^ a b c d Description: RFC 2595
- ^ a b Description: RFC 2487
- ^ a b c Opera Mail does not support STARTTLS command on special ports, like 995 for pop3 connection
- ^ a b Since version 4.2, The Bat! supports two modes of X.509 certificate handling: Internal Implementation and via Microsoft Crypto API. CRLs and OCSP are only supported in the latter mode during TLS connections.
Features
Information on what features each of the clients support.
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 e-mail UTF-8 support Image blocking Junk filtering Phishing filtering Thread view Conversation view PGP support S/MIME support local server- side inline PGP/MIME or OpenPGP protocol OCSP CRL certificates on tokens, smartcards support Alpine Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes ? Yes ? Yes ? ? ? Citadel Yes Yes No Yes [Note 1] ? ? No ? ? ? ? ? ? Claws Mail Read-only Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Cone Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes ? No Yes No No No No Courier Yes No No Yes Yes ? No ? ? ? ? ? ? ? eM Client Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes No No Yes ? ? ? Elm ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? EmailTray Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? No No No No No No No No Eudora Yes No Yes Pro only Pro only ? Yes No Yes [Note 2] Yes [Note 2] Yes ? ? ? Eureka Email ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Gnus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes GroupWise Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? i.Scribe / InScribe Read-only Yes Yes Yes No ? Yes ? Yes No No No No No IBM Lotus Notes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes [Note 3] ? Yes Yes
(4.1.2+)Yes Yes, [5] Yes Yes KMail Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes
(with GPG)Yes
(1.5+, with GPGME)Yes Yes Yes ? Mail Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? Yes [Note 4] Yes [Note 4] Yes Yes ? ? Microsoft Entourage Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes ? ? Yes Microsoft Office Outlook Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (2010+) [43] No No Yes ? ? ? Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Mozilla Thunderbird Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [Note 5] Yes Yes Yes [Note 6] Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Mulberry Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? Yes ? Yes [Note 7] Yes [Note 7] Yes [Note 7] ? ? ? Mutt Read-only Yes Yes
(no support for images)Yes ? ? Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes (with GPGME) ? Netscape Messenger ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Netscape Messenger 9 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? nmh / MH ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Novell Evolution Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Opera Mail Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ? No No No No No No Outlook Express Yes Yes Yes No ? ? Yes ? Yes [Note 8] No [Note 9] Yes ? ? ? Pegasus Mail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes
(sending is broken)? No No No Pine Read-only Yes Yes No ? ? Yes ? Yes
(with Pine Privacy Guard)No Yes ? ? ? Pocomail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ? Yes [Note 6] Yes [Note 6] Yes Yes ? Yes Spicebird Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes SquirrelMail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (depends on antivirus) Yes ? ? Yes Yes ? ? ? Sylpheed No [Note 10] Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? Yes Yes ? ? ? ? The Bat! Yes Yes Yes [Note 11] Yes Yes ? Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Partial [Note 12] Partial [Note 12] Yes [Note 12] Turnpike Read-only ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Windows Live Mail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ? Yes ? ? ? Windows Mail Yes ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? YAM ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Zimbra Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (depends on antivirus) Yes ? ? Yes ? ? ? Client HTML e-mail UTF-8 support Image blocking Junk filtering Phishing filtering Thread view Conver- sation view PGP support S/MIME support local server- side inline PGP/MIME or OpenPGP protocol OCSP CRL certificates on tokens, smartcards support - ^ Citadel plugs Mail into SpamAssassin
- ^ a b Eudora requires a plugin to handle PGP.
- ^ First release 6.0 (September 2003), [1] enhancements introduced in release 7.0 (August 2005)
- ^ a b Mail requires [2] GPGMail-plugin.
- ^ Mozilla Thunderbird adds this feature in Thunderbird 1.5.0.4
- ^ a b c Using PGP in Thunderbird requires Enigmail.
- ^ a b c PGP/GPG and S/MIME support require a free (included) plugin.
- ^ Using PGP in Outlook Express requires a plugin.
- ^ Outlook Express does not display PGP/MIME signed messages.
- ^ Sylpheed has some limited ability to show HTML email. It can show the plain text that's left after stripping away all the HTML tags. Sylpheed has no ability to compose HTML.
- ^ The Bat is not able to display inline images.
- ^ a b c The Bat! supports two modes of S/MIME: Internal Implementation and via Microsoft Crypto API.[44] CRLs and OCSP are only supported in the latter mode. Internal implementation only supports Aladdin eToken Pro or Rainbow iKey1000[45] tokens and can import certificates (from PKCS#12/PFX format) which were created outside The Bat!. CryptoAPI supports any kind of tokens and smart cards which have a corresponding Cryptographic Service Provider installed.
Messages features
Client Label messages Reformat received messages Bi-?directional text support Composing messages Native images preview Postpone/?scheduled message sending Native documents preview with colors with flag antidelete add note edit headers (e.g., Subject) forced recode [Note 1] Spell checking Signatures Bottom-posts replies jpeg gif bmp png others txt pdf doc xls odt ods others Alpine Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Citadel ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Claws Mail Yes Yes Yes No ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes with a plugin ? ? ? ? ? Cone Yes Yes Yes No ? ? ? Yes No ? No No No No No ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Courier Yes Yes No No Yes ? ? Yes Yes ? No No No No No Yes ? No No No No No ? eM Client Yes Yes No No ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Elm ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? EmailTray Yes No No No No No ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No ? Eudora Yes Yes No No ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes QuickTime Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Eureka Email ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Gnus Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes XPM Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? GroupWise Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? i.Scribe / InScribe Yes No No Yes No No No Yes [Note 2] Yes Yes Yes [Note 3] Yes Yes Yes [Note 4] ICO, TIFF Yes No No No No No No No IBM Lotus Notes Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes No CGM, Lotus PIC, PCX, TIFF ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? KMail Yes[57] Yes No No ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Mail Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes any QuickTime supported format No ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? Microsoft Entourage Yes Yes ? Yes[Note 5] ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ? Yes PDF ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Microsoft Office Outlook Yes Yes No Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Word, PowerPoint, Excel Yes Yes with a plugin Yes Yes 2010 2010 PowerPoint|ppt Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Mozilla Thunderbird Yes Yes ? ? with a plugin[6], not via IMAP [7] ? ? Yes Yes Yes [Note 6] Yes Yes Yes Yes ICO Yes [Note 7] Yes No No No No No No Mulberry ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? Yes Yes ? No No No No No ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Mutt Yes Yes No No Yes ? ? Yes Yes ? No No No No No postpone ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Netscape Messenger ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Netscape Messenger 9 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? nmh / MH ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Novell Evolution Yes Yes ? ? No ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Opera Mail No Yes No No ? ? Yes Yes [Note 8] Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes APNG, ICO, SVG, WBMP, XBM No ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Outlook Express No Yes No No ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ICO, art ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Pegasus Mail Yes Yes Yes Yes in index No No Yes Yes No [Note 9] Yes Yes Yes Yes TIFF N/A Yes No No No No No RTF, HTML Pine Yes Yes ? ? No with a patch [Note 10] ? Yes [Note 11] Yes ? No No No No No ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Pocomail Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups Yes Yes No No ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? SquirrelMail Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Sylpheed Yes Yes No No ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes No No No No No ? The Bat! Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Hunspell Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ICO, emf Yes Yes No No No No No No Turnpike Yes ? ? No ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes No ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Windows Live Mail No Yes No No ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Windows Mail ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? YAM ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Zimbra Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Client Label messages Reformat received messages Bi-?directional text support Composing messages Native images preview Postpone/?scheduled message sending Native documents preview with colors with flag antidelete add note edit headers (e.g., Subject) forced recode [Note 1] Spell checking Signatures Bottom-posts replies jpeg gif bmp png others txt pdf doc xls odt ods others - ^ a b It's a frequent problem for people dealing with Cyrillic/Russian in email messages that the message is not encoded in the encoding declared in its headers and thus can't be read. With such a message (with a wrong declaration of the encoding), it well might be the case that it passed through several incorrect recoding stages while it was being sent and delivered; thus it's not possible to correctly render it and read it if one uses the common type of the interface for choosing the encoding (such as the menu in Mozilla Firefox). An example of such a complex case of a wrongly declared encoding: a message was entered through a webform in the windows-1251 encoding, but the web interface incorrectly assumed that it was in latin-1; based on this assumption, it performed the recoding from latin-1 to utf-8. The result of this operation cannot be correctly decoded through the common encoding-selection interface; it can only be decoded through a two-stage recoding: first from utf-8 to latin-1, then from windows-1251 to utf-8 (assuming that one works in a Unicode environment). After it is decoded, it is desirable to store it in the recoded form instead of the original, in order to be able to read it easily afterwards, and to quote it for replies.
- ^ i.Scribe / InScribe supports full integration with GNU Aspell, which is its requirement for spell checking.
- ^ i.Scribe / InScribe requires libjpeg.
- ^ i.Scribe / InScribe requires libpng.
- ^ Entourage can link a message to a note.
- ^ Configurable to start replies at top or bottom, with separate configuration of signature position
- ^ Thunderbird requires SL8TR extension.
- ^ Opera supports full integration with GNU Aspell, which is its requirement for spell checking.
- ^ Starts replies with cursor at top, but is configurable regarding whether to include a blank space at the top for replies or not; some interleaved-posting users prefer starting the cursor at the top so they can trim the quotes
- ^ The recoding engine and interface extensions that would solve the described recoding problems have been developed as a patch for Pine; it is to be found in the package pine-4.58L-alt4.src.rpm(ftp) for ALTLinux (under the name
pine-4.58L-alt2-0.4.1.diff). Its essential feature is to enable to forcibly recode messages, save them in the recoded form, and quote in replies. - ^ Pine supports full integration with GNU Aspell or other external speller, which is its requirement for spell checking.
Database, folders and customization
Client Message file format Encrypted database Virtual folders Scheduled backup New mail notification Customizable interface Customizable keybindings Fragmented messages [Note 1] Database search with regular expressions support Indexed search Search folders [Note 2] IMAP search ticker tray icon tooltip sound Alpine mbox, mbx, MIX, maildir (with patches), MMDF, tenex, mtx, MH, mx, news, phile ? Yes Partial ? ? ? Yes Yes No ? No Yes Yes Yes Citadel ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Claws Mail MH, mbox No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? No Yes Cone mbox, maildir No No No No ? ? ? Yes (colors) No No No No Yes Yes Courier Proprietary Yes (weak) Yes ? ? ? ? ? Yes (layout) No ? No No Yes No eM Client Proprietary (sqlite) No No No No Yes No Yes Yes (layout) No ? No Yes Yes Yes Elm ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? EmailTray Proprietary Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No No No No Yes Yes ? Eudora mbox No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[specify] Yes Yes Yes Eureka Email ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Gnus babyl, maildir, mbox, MMDF, news, rnews, SOUP, outlook, oe-dbx No Yes No No ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes GroupWise Proprietary Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes i.Scribe / InScribe Proprietary (sqlite) No No No No Yes No Yes Yes No No No No No No IBM Lotus Notes Proprietary Yes [8] Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes [Note 3] No Yes Yes ? KMail mbox, maildir No Yes No ? ? ? ? Yes Yes No Yes ? Yes Yes Mail Proprietary ? Yes Yes ? Yes ? Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes [Note 4] Yes [Note 5] ? Microsoft Entourage Proprietary (Personal Storage Table) ? Yes Partial [Note 6] ? ? ? ? Partial No No Partial [Note 7] Yes Yes Yes Microsoft Office Outlook Proprietary (Personal Storage Table) Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes [Note 8] Yes ? Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups mbox ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Mozilla Thunderbird mbox No Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes [Note 9] ? No ? Yes (as of 3.0) Yes Yes Mulberry mbox [Note 10] Partial [Note 11] Partial [Note 11] Partial [Note 11] ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? Yes[specify] Partial [Note 11] No Yes Mutt mbox, MMDF, MH, maildir Yes (with compressed folders patch [9]) ? (has limit command) No ? ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes no integrated solutions available[69] No (easily integrated with mairix) Yes Netscape Messenger mbox ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Netscape Messenger 9 mbox ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? nmh / MH MH No Yes No No ? ? ? Yes No ? Yes Yes Yes No Novell Evolution maildir, mbox, MH No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Partial Yes [Note 12] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Opera Mail maildir (9.20 and Above), mbox (9.10 and Below) No Yes
(all folders are virtual)No ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No ? Yes Yes ? Outlook Express Proprietary No No No ? Yes No Yes No No Yes ? No ? ? Pegasus Mail Proprietary No Yes No ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? Yes Yes Pine mbox, mbx, MIX, maildir (with patches), MMDF, tenex, mtx, MH, mx, news, phile ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Pocomail mbox Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups mbox ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes SquirrelMail [IMAP Server] ? ? ? Yes No No Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes Sylpheed MH No No No ? Yes ? ? Yes Yes No No [Note 13] No [Note 13] Yes ? The Bat! Proprietary Yes (RC2 128 bit) (with Pro and Voyager version) [Note 14]
Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (PCRE 6.2)
No Yes Yes Turnpike Proprietary Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? Yes ? Windows Live Mail ? No No No No Yes ? Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes ? Windows Mail ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? YAM ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Zimbra File system Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Client Message file format Encrypted database Virtual folders Scheduled backup New mail notification Customizable interface Customizable keybindings Fragmented messages [Note 1] Database search with regular expressions support Indexed search Search folders [Note 2] IMAP search ticker tray icon tooltip sound - ^ a b Fragmented messages makes possible, for example, to send a large audio message as several partial messages, and still have it appear to the recipient as a simple audio message rather than as an encapsulated message containing an audio message. RFC 2046
- ^ a b Search Folders are virtual folders that contain views of all e-mail items matching specific search criteria. Search Folders display the results of previously defined search queries.
- ^ Fragmented messages are called truncated document in Lotus Notes.
- ^ with Spotlight Mac OS X v. 10.4
- ^ Search folders is called Smart Folders in Mail on Mac OS X v. 10.4.
- ^ With Entourage 2008, you can use AppleScript and various internal/external scheduling mechanisms to create timed backups of Entourage Data.
- ^ With Entourage 2008 and later versions of 2004, you can use the Spotlight data to search what's in the Entourage database via regular expression in the file system in Terminal or via Spotlight's ...interesting...version of "regular expressions".
- ^ supported since Office 2007.
- ^ Thunderbird's interface can be user customized via the use of themes (which can reposition and skin controls)
- ^ This is for Mulberry's 'offline browsing' capability, which is turned off by default. In the default configuration no local copy of the mail is created.
- ^ a b c d Mulberry is a dedicated IMAP client; If the IMAP server has these abilities, Mulberry can use them.
- ^ Editable keybindings is part of GNOME, provided "Editable menu accelerators" is enabled in GNOME's "Menus & Toolbars" control applet.
- ^ a b Because MH stores each letter in a separate file, it is trivially easy to (externally) search them with grep. This ease is shattered when non-raw encodings are used, such as base64.
- ^ The Bat! Pro support two methods access to program when database is encrypted: password authorization and token authorization; Voyager support only password authorization and encrypted database is default and only available storage method.
Templates, scripts and programming languages
Client Message templates Message templates individual for Support in message templates scripts, programming languages new reply forward read confirmation save print JavaScript VBScript PHP Scripts Python Regular expressions Java Other (specify) Alpine Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? any No No No No ? No ? Citadel ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Claws Mail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes account
folderNo No No Yes ? ? Perl Cone Yes No No No No No ? No No No No No No No Courier Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes ? No No No No No No No eM Client Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No No No No No No No Elm ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Eudora Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes any No No No No Yes No No Eureka Email ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Gnus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No No No No Yes No elisp GroupWise Yes No No Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? i.Scribe / InScribe Yes Yes Yes No No No any No No No No No No Internal macros (similar to JavaScript) IBM Lotus Notes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes No No No Yes [10] Yes LotusScript, Formula language KMail Yes Yes Yes No No No none ? No No No ? ? ? Mail Yes Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) No No No ? ? ? No No No No No ? AppleScript, Automator Microsoft Entourage Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? AppleScript, Automator Microsoft Office Outlook Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Mozilla Thunderbird Yes Yes[Note 1] Yes[Note 1] Yes Yes Yes profile Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? Mulberry Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? No No No No ? ? ? Mutt Yes Yes Yes No ? ? any No No No No Yes ? Internal macros Netscape Messenger ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Netscape Messenger 9 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? nmh / MH ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Novell Evolution Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Opera Mail Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes none No No No No No No No Outlook Express Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? Pegasus Mail Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Pine Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? any ? No No ? ? No ? Pocomail Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? SquirrelMail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No ? Sylpheed Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? No No No No No ? ? The Bat! Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes account
folder
address book group
contactYes [Note 2] Yes [Note 3] Yes [Note 4] Yes [Note 5] Yes PCRE 6.2 Internal and plugins macros Turnpike ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Windows Live Mail Yes[Note 6] Yes[Note 6] ? Yes[Note 6] ? ? ? Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? Windows Mail ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? YAM Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ? No No No No ? ? ARexx Zimbra Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes any No No No No No ? ? Client Message templates Message templates individual for Support in message templates scripts, programming languages new reply forward read confirmation save print JavaScript VBScript PHP Scripts Python Regular expressions Java Other (specify) - ^ a b Thunderbird supports HTML templates with "Stationery" add-on.
- ^ The Bat! supports JavaScript in message templates with the JavaScript Macro plugin.
- ^ The Bat! supports VBScript in message templates with the XMP plugin.
- ^ The Bat! supports PHP in message templates with the XMP plugin.
- ^ The Bat! supports Python in message templates with the TBPyxie plugin.
- ^ a b c Weak "stationery" system that only accept pages done with Word.
See also
- Unicode and e-mail
- List of personal information managers
- Comparison of layout engines
- Webmail
- Comparison of feed aggregators
- Comparison of mail servers
- Comparison of webmail providers
References
- ^ http://www.rimarts.jp/downloads/B2/Readme-e.txt
- ^ a b "The Birth of Eudora". http://www.eudora.com/presskit/backgrounder.html. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
- ^ a b "GNUS: a NNTP based news reader for GNU Emacs (1 of 2)". http://gnus.org/2.0/gnus.1. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
- ^ "KDE’s November Updates Improve Kontact Performance". http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.7.3.php.
- ^ The SeaMonkey Project
- ^ "Other Programming Projects and Downloads". http://www.caddit.net/programming.php. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
- ^ "PC-PINE-3.96 README". ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pcpine/old/PC-PINE-3.96/README. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
- ^ Write to LDAP still missing after 10 years, Mozilla bug 86405
- ^ Add-ons include MesQuilla ExQuilla Exchange Web Services (alpha) and Provider for Microsoft Exchange
- ^ Sort Your Emails by Conversation in Outlook 2010 - How-To Geek
- ^ "List of features of The Bat! e-mail client". http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/features.php.
- ^ "The Bat! with Hardware Tokens". http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/securebat/.
- ^ http://www.google.com/search?q=kmail+colors&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a
- ^ MuttWiki: UserStory/SearchingMail
External links
- UAlbany ITS: Email Services - Email Choices: Mail Client Comparison Summary Tables
- E-mail 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 IBM
- a CSS implementation comparison of many well known mail clients
Categories:- Software comparisons
- Email clients
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