The Bottom Line
3D Mail Effects is a great looking mail checker that does all the essential things with bells and whistles, literally.
Pros
- Skinnable, has animated 3D announcements
- Skinnable interface, animated 3D alert graphics
- 3D Mail Effects supports Web-based accounts
Cons
- No filters and anti-spam measures
- 3D Mail Effects has a non-standard interface
- No IMAP accounts
Description
- 3D Mail Effects checks unlimited number of POP or Web-based accounts periodically.
- New mails announced via tray icon, pop-up window, animated 3D object or flashing keyboard lights.
- Interval and notification settings per account.
- Preview messages (with full HTML support) and delete them right at the server.
- 3D Mail Effects can keep a detailed transaction log.
- 3D Mail Effects supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Guide Review - 3D Mail Effects 6.0 - Mail Checker
All mail checkers announce new mail, so this cannot be the criterion for choosing one rather than another. But the way a mail checker does these announcements can be decisive, at least if you want more than a blinking system tray icon.
3D Mail Effects does have this icon, of course, but it also has a skinnable pop-up window, and it has animated, configurable, eye-popping 3D objects that dance around the screen upon the arrival of new mail.
The interface for previewing and deleting messages is less spectacular, but equally useful.
Unfortunately, 3D Mail Effects is missing (anti-spam) filters that could automate the removal of unwanted mail.
