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WikMail 2005 - Email Program

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WikMail - Email Program

WikMail - Email Program

Heinz Tschabitscher

The Bottom Line

WikMail is a multifarious email tool that includes mail checking, a fun email client, postcards, tools to create stationery and a lot more. Unfortunately, plain text editing has suffered a bit and IMAP support is rudimentary in WikMail.
Pros
  • WikMail supports stationery, rich editing, greeting cards, and more fun stuff
  • An adaptive spam filter gets rid of junk mail efficiently in WikMail
  • WikMail offers remote mail management and sleek new mail announcements
Cons
  • WikMail supports IMAP in a very rudimentary fashion only
  • Plain text editing is not powerful enough in WikMail
  • WikMail has a somewhat nervous and distracting, not always intuitive interface

Description

  • WikMail is an email client and mail checker for POP, IMAP and webmail accounts.
  • WikMail lets you add stationery, greeting cards, voice messages, graphical signatures and smileys.
  • The stationery editor included with WikMail makes adding your own creations easy.
  • WikMail can announce new mail using MS Agent characters, popup window, sound and its tray icon.
  • A remote mailbox tool lets you browse and delete messages right at the server.
  • WikMail includes spam filtering that scans for keywords and URLs.
  • WikMail keeps mail in a database for speed and scalability and lets you backup/restore data easily.
  • Additionally, WikMail offers Messenger and ICQ plug-ins, a calendar, P2P chat, traceroute and more.
  • WikMail supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.

Guide Review - WikMail 2005 - Email Program

WikMail is everything to everybody. It can work as a great mail checker, but you can also use it as a full-fledged email client. Its remote mailbox tool lets you scan and delete mail right at the server, and you can use WikMail to compose colorful emails boasting stationery, graphical signatures, smileys and what not.

In spite of its skinnable interface and maybe thanks to a database-centered approach, WikMail is a speedy tool. Unfortunately, it supports only POP accounts, and some areas haven't yet gotten appropriate attention.

There's plain text editing, for example, which doesn't encourage properly formatted emails, and the filters, which aren't particularly helpful, neither with sorting mail nor with getting rid of spam.

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WikMailJune 04, 2009By Diana2Br
"I have been using WikMail for several years and would highly recommend it. I totally disagree with the Review ""Cons"" of WikMail. WikMail is the most innovative, stable email program available and their support is outstanding. WikMail does NOT use all your computer's RAM, nor does it cause crashes. The WikMail team works diligently to improve and offer their users amazing features. I would suggest that you try it for FREE, as well as visit their website to read about all their latest features. You won't be disappointed!"

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