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KidzMail 1.5 - Email Program

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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com Guide

KidzMail - Email Program

KidzMail - Email Program

Heinz Tschabitscher
The Bottom Line
KidzMail is an easy to use email client geare towards kids. The option to create and send drawings in particular is a lot of fun. While generally kid-safe, KidzMail unfortunately doesn't support sender authentication.
Pros
  • KidzMail is a lot of fun and easy to use
  • Drawings can be created and sent with KidzMail
  • Kid-safe by allowing parents to restrict correspondance to certain senders
Cons
  • KidzMail lacks strong, reliable sender authentication
  • Doesn't support rich-text emails
  • KidzMail only supports POP accounts and is limited to one user
Description
  • KidzMail is a simple and easy to use email program for POP accounts.
  • Using password-protected settings, you can specify a list of (exclusively) allowed contacts.
  • You can create and send drawings directly in KidzMail.
  • KidzMail can scramble text so that only other KidzMail users can read it.
  • KidzMail supports Mac OS 9/X, Windows 2000/3/XP.
Guide Review - KidzMail 1.5 - Email Program
Email can be a lot of fun, but often it also is unfriendly: spam, viruses and hoaxes are sure to arrive in everybody's mailbox. If you don't want your children to receive any of these, you should make sure they can communicate with certain people only. KidzMail makes setting up such an address book easy.

Unfortunately, KidzMail does not require the sender to authenticate in any way (via pass phrase or, preferrably, an electronic signature, for example), though. Creating emails and drawings (and drawings in emails) is a lot of fun with KidzMail, and adding some text is easy.

Support for richer HTML text formatting would be nice and could spice up the messages even more.

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