The following tables compare general and technical features of notable
email client
An email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email.
A web application which provides message management, composition, and reception functio ...
programs.
General
Basic general information about the clients: creator/company, O/S, licence, & interface. Clients listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.
Release history
A brief digest of the release histories.
Operating system support
The
operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also ...
s on which the clients can run natively (without emulation).
Protocol support
Communication and access protocol support
What email and related protocols and standards are supported by each client.
Integration protocol support
Authentication support
SSL and TLS support
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.
Messages features
Database, folders and customization
Templates, scripts and programming languages
Internationalization
The Bat! supports
Email Address Internationalization
An email address identifies an email box to which messages are delivered. While early messaging systems used a variety of formats for addressing, today, email addresses follow a set of specific rules originally standardized by the Internet Engineer ...
(EAI).
As of October 2016, email clients supporting
SMTPUTF8
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard communication protocol for electronic mail transmission. Mail servers and other message transfer agents use SMTP to send and receive mail messages. User-level email clients typica ...
included Outlook 2016,
mail for iOS, and mail for Android.
See also
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Comparison of feed aggregators
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Comparison of browser engines
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Comparison of mail servers
The comparison of mail servers covers mail transfer agents (MTAs), mail delivery agents, and other computer software that provide e-mail services.
Unix-based mail servers are built using a number of components because a Unix-style environment ...
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Comparison of webmail providers
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of notable webmail providers who offer a web interface in English.
The list does not include web hosting providers who may offer email services as a part of hosting ...
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List of personal information managers
The following is a list of personal information managers ( PIMs) and online organizers.
Applications
Discontinued applications
See also Comparisons
* Comparison of email clients
* Comparison of file managers
* Comparison of note-taki ...
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Unicode and email Many email clients now offer some support for Unicode. Some clients will automatically choose between a legacy encoding and Unicode depending on the mail's content, either automatically or when the user requests it.
Technical requirements for sendi ...
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Webmail
Webmail (or web-based email) is an email service that can be accessed using a standard web browser. It contrasts with email service accessible through a specialised email client software. Examples of webmail providers are 1&1 Ionos, AOL Mail, G ...
References
External links
T&B : Email : Clients(of historical interest—last updated in 1999)
(includes many email clients not listed in the above tables)
at
IBM
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An email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email.
A web application which provides message management, composition, and reception functi ...
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