[POLL] EMail Clients - 2008 Member Choice

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McSummation
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October 13th, @03:35PM

[POLL] EMail Clients - 2008 Member Choice

Wikipedia's definition of E-mail Client - An e-mail client, also called a mail user agent (MUA), is a computer program that is used to read and send e-mail.

Originally, the MUA was intended to be a simple program to read the user's mail messages, which the mail delivery agent (MDA) in conjunction with the mail transfer agent (MTA) would transfer into a local mailbox.

The most important mailbox formats are mbox and Maildir. These rather simple protocols for locally storing e-mails make import, export and backup of mailfolders quite easy.

E-mails to be sent would be handed over to the MTA, perhaps via an mail submission agent, therefore an MUA would not have to provide any transport-related functions.

Since the various Microsoft Windows versions intended for home use never provided an MTA, most modern MUAs have to support protocols like POP3 and Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) to communicate with a remote MTA located at the e-mail providers machine.

IMAP and the updated IMAP4 are optimized for storage of e-mail on the server, while the POP3 protocol generally assumes that the e-mail is downloaded to the client. The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is used by most e-mail clients to send e-mail.

In addition to the fat client e-mail clients, or small MUAs in cooperation with a local MDA/MTA, presented here, there are also Web-based e-mail programs called webmail.

An important standard supported by most e-mail clients is MIME, which is used to send binary file e-mail attachments. Attachments are files that are not part of the e-mail proper, but are sent with the e-mail.

Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) is a proprietary Microsoft Windows application programming interface (API) which can be used to access the Microsoft Exchange e-mail server or to interact with the Microsoft Outlook client.

Thanks to TransitMan

for the above descriptions.

	Please choose the E-mail Client(s) you use most

Outlook	162 (27.1%)
Thunderbird	134 (22.4%)
Web-mail Clients (GMail; Hotmail; Juno/NetZero; Yahoo; InBox; AIM/AOL; etc.)	111 (18.5%)
Outlook Express	72 (12%)
Other (Please list with link)	22 (3.6%)
Eudora	13 (2.1%)
Pegasus	11 (1.8%)
Mac OS X Mail	10 (1.6%)
Opera M2	9 (1.5%)
The Bat!	8 (1.3%)
SeaMonkey	7 (1.1%)
Evolution	6 (1%)
PocoMail	6 (1%)
Pine	4 (0.6%)
Entourage for Mac	3 (0.5%)
AOL Communicator	2 (0.3%)
Becky!	2 (0.3%)
KMail	2 (0.3%)
Mozilla 1.7.x	2 (0.3%)
Mutt	2 (0.3%)
Popcorn	2 (0.3%)
Sylpheed	2 (0.3%)
Courier	1 (0.1%)
IncrediMail	1 (0.1%)
Mulberry	1 (0.1%)
PMMail 2000	1 (0.1%)
Sylpheed Claws	1 (0.1%)
Aethera	0 (0%)
AK-Mail	0 (0%)
Balsa	0 (0%)
Columba	0 (0%)
Emacs	0 (0%)
Eureka	0 (0%)
Express Plus	0 (0%)
FoxMail	0 (0%)
GNUMail	0 (0%)
Karen's E-Mailer	0 (0%)
Kaufman Mail Warrior	0 (0%)
LCARS Mail	0 (0%)
Mail Commander	0 (0%)
Marlin	0 (0%)
MiniMail	0 (0%)
MR/2 ICE	0 (0%)
Musashi	0 (0%)
Nelson Email Organizer	0 (0%)
Netscape 4.7x to 7.2x	0 (0%)
Netscape 8.x	0 (0%)
Nisus	0 (0%)
Novell Groupwise	0 (0%)
Phoenix Mail	0 (0%)
Pimmy	0 (0%)
PowerMail	0 (0%)
Scientific Letter Email Program	0 (0%)
Scribe	0 (0%)
Starfish Family Mail	0 (0%)
SweetMail	0 (0%)
TabMail	0 (0%)
VM	0 (0%)
Wanderlust	0 (0%)
WikMail	0 (0%)
WordPerfect Mail	0 (0%)
XCmail	0 (0%)
XFMail	0 (0%)
Don't Use E-Mail In Any Form.	0 (0%)
439 participants. 597 total votes. results as pie chart in flash

I realize this list is long, but I have tried to include Windows, Mac and Linux programs, as well as a sedlection for Web-Mail clients

If you have a favorite Web-Mail client, and I did not list in the Web-Mail selection, please list it below, along with a link, so we all may see and investigate for ourselves. (All links verified as of 8/6/2006)

Thank you for your time and vote.

Edit: It has come to my attention that I left out "Windows Mail", which is the Vista built-in client. If you use this, please indicate "Other", then post "Windows Mail" as your client.


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