The Bottom Line
MailBell is a great, flexible and powerful, but easy to use Windows mail checker that provides nice announcements, spam filters, and support for many mailbox types.
Pros
- MailBell offers content-based and spam filters
- Supports POP, IMAP, MAPI, Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail
- MailBell is simple, fast and resource-friendly
Cons
- MailBell doesn't support secure server connections
- MailBell's spam filters don't use statistics
Description
- MailBell checks multiple email accounts for new messages periodically.
- Customizable notification windows and sounds for new messages.
- MailBell lets you preview and delete mail directly at the server.
- Content-based filters allow MailBell to handle message differently based on sender, body, and more.
- MailBell also comes with scoring spam filters to spot unwanted or suspicious bulk email.
- Detected spam can be deleted from the server. It is moved to a local folder and can be recovered.
- Supports POP, IMAP (with TLS/SSL), MAPI, MSN and a number of web-based email accounts.
- MailBell supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP/Vista.
Guide Review - MailBell 2.27 - Mail Checker
If the job description of your mail checker includes "pop that mail right into my face", consider MailBell. This is a task well done by this efficient mail checker that supports not only POP mailboxes, but also IMAP, MAPI, MSN, and several web-based email services including Windows Live Hotmail and Gmail. You can even use filters to make MailBell announce only important mail in the most obtrusive manner and neglect spam altogether.
The simple, but quite effective scoring spam filters can also remove unwanted mail from the server automatically and save it in a Trash locally, from where they can be recovered easily. Of course, MailBell lets you preview and delete messages manually, too.
All in all, MailBell is a flexible and powerful yet easy to use mail checker.
