Alternative Mail-clients

Alternative Mail-clients:

Detailed overview of alternative e-mail clients

What are good e-mail applications?

nPOPw

nPOPw is also a free mail client, which can be downloaded here (complete download page is here). It is less feature-rich as QMail but it has the advantage of being smaller. The complete installation manual can be found here. You can use it on PocketPC 2002 WM2003(SE) and WM2005 devices.

The Pros of nPOPw are:

• Threaded mailview 
• Integration with the standard Outlook adressbook
• Advanced mail-features, like
• message priority 
• read/delivery mesages
• Reads HTML mails
• Not much bandwith usage, especially usefull when roaming abroad or using a commercial WiFi provider.

The Cons of nPOPw are:

• Lack of SSL (GMail) support
• Lack of support for IMAP protocol
• No Unicode support

ProfiMail

ProfiMail is also a commercial application, it costs about $23,99. You can download it here. The application itself also has a lot to be desired – particularly the high price (even WebIS Mail is cheaper, not to mention the vastly superior and free Qmail!), the sub-par HTML rendering engine, the impossible-to-switch-off custom "soft" fonts (which will drive nuts anyone that hates soft fonts – I'm one of them. This is why I always disable ClearType too), the lack of clickable links in plain text messages and the lack of text select/copy unless in edit mode.

The pros of ProfiMail:

• Support for POP3 and IMAP4
• Reads HTML mail 

The cons of ProfiMail:

• No downloading of e-mails in the background or using downloadschedules
• Missing support for cut-copy to Windows clipboard
• Embedded links in e-mail are not clickable

QMail

QMail is without doubt the best value for money. Besides being one of the most versatile readers, it is also freeware. You can download it here. ...