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WordPerfect Mail 2.0.4 - Email Program

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WordPerfect Mail - Email Program

WordPerfect Mail - Email Program

Heinz Tschabitscher
The Bottom Line
WordPerfect Mail is more than an email client: it's an email organizer that helped you tame even large volumes of mail with ease, comfort and spam filtering. WordPerfect Mail is not without flaws (editing, IMAP), though.
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Pros
  • WordPerfect Mail organizes mail fabulously and finds mail instantly
  • Integrating powerful SAproxy filtering, WordPerfect Mail tames junk mail
  • WordPerfect Mail lets you read RSS feeds like email
Cons
  • WordPerfect Mail's plain text editor lacks power and templates
  • IMAP support is lacking severely in WordPerfect Mail
  • WordPerfect Mail does not integrate secure S/MIME or OpenPGP messaging
Description
  • WordPerfect Mail manages multiple POP and IMAP email accounts and fetches news from RSS feeds, too.
  • Fast and flexible message search provides instant access to any email or attachment.
  • WordPerfect Mail lets you save searches as views, folders that automatically show matching mail.
  • Integration with SAproxy provides easy to use, efficient and precise spam filtering.
  • WordPerfect Mail provides flexible filters to automatically handle incoming and outgoing mail.
  • Email views can be grouped and threaded intelligently, and WordPerfect Mail lets you assign labels.
  • Keeping track of your usage patterns, WordPerfect Mail can suggest the most likely recipient.
  • The WordPerfect Mail Calendar integrates multiple (and downloadable) calendars with email, contacts.
  • WordPerfect Mail supports group calendaring, too.
  • WordPerfect Mail supports Windows 98/2000/3/XP/Vista.
Guide Review - WordPerfect Mail 2.0.4 - Email Program
I've always filed all emails to two folders: trash and archive. This sounds chaotic (and a glance at the archive folder reveals it looks chaotic, too), but good search and labeling functionality lets you access all the info in all the emails fast and precisely.

WordPerfect Mail encourages this "search-based" approach and excels at making it even more efficient with its easy to use search bar, attachment searching, blazing speed and smart saved searches.

Another important thing WordPerfect Mail does well together with SAproxy is filtering out spam before you get to see it. It's great to see WordPerfect Mail read RSS feeds like email, integrating two of the main information sources in one store.

Unfortunately, IMAP support is not so great, though. It is admittedly not easy to integrate IMAP accounts with search-centered access, but I think WordPerfect Mail can do better than simply downloading all mail.

While it's reasonable that WordPerfect Mail is configured not to show remote images in messages by default, it would be nice if this setting could be overridden per message (or maybe for known senders.

WordPerfect Mail also includes a hands-on calendar with support for downloadable calendars and a neat interface that lets you see, create and edit events directly from the email view. A task list is missing from WordPerfect Mail, though.

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Corel Knows How to Do ItNovember 25, 2008By MPOster
"I have tried all the mail clients and I keep coming back to this one. Easy to use and the SPAM eliminator actually works (much better than TBird). The integrated calendar is sweet and it comes with the program, not an add-on. I have had no issues with actual technical support and Corel gets back to me within 24 hours. I didn't see anything wrong with the IMAP as the last review said. The signature field is also great to use with different accounts."
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